Clomid - Vision Problems

[auswalk]

My vision has gotten blurry since I started up. On 50mg daily for the next week and then I'm done. Just wondering if any bros have had this problem, and is this side effect only temporary? I don't want to do clomid again if this shit can cause permanent vision damage.

 

[macrophage69alpha]

its somewhat common, it usually (almost always goes away). there are cases where it was permanent (though they are extremely rare- its widely used clinically)

do you have tracers? or blurs? both?

 

[auswalk]

mostly blurs. i get headaches trying to read the computer and even watch TV. I had lasik surgery about 3 years ago.

 

[macrophage69alpha]

mostly blurs. i get headaches trying to read the computer and even watch TV. I had lasik surgery about 3 years ago.

that may be a factor, in the level of your response (since surgery is a from of trauma).

would probably avoid clomid in the future. steroidal AI (aromasin or aifm) with low dose HCG.

 

[RADAR]

I agree with macro
I would sub something else in place of clomid.


RADAR

 

[medical]

that may be a factor, in the level of your response (since surgery is a from of trauma).

would probably avoid clomid in the future. steroidal AI (aromasin or aifm) with low dose HCG.

Yep.....cornea both deforms differently and refracts light differently post Lasik, both of which would be a factor in the way clomid changes vision.

 

[ALIN]

My vision has gotten blurry since I started up. On 50mg daily for the next week and then I'm done. Just wondering if any bros have had this problem, and is this side effect only temporary? I don't want to do clomid again if this shit can cause permanent vision damage.

blurry vison is typical clomid side,,,,not harmful,,,may be dose related,,,will subside after treatment.

 

[macrophage69alpha]

blurry vison is typical clomid side,,,,not harmful,,,may be dose related,,,will subside after treatment.

this is generally but not always true. There are cases, rare but they do occur, where such is permanent or long lasting.


Arch Ophthalmol. 1995 Apr;113(4):482-4. Links
Visual disturbance secondary to clomiphene citrate.Purvin VA.
Midwest Eye Institute, Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, USA.

OBJECTIVE: To identify a distinctive constellation of persistent visual abnormalities secondary to treatment with clomiphene citrate. DESIGN: Description of the clinical findings in three patients with visual disturbance secondary to clomiphene treatment. SETTING: A neuro-ophthalmology referral center. PATIENTS: Three women aged 32 to 36 years treated for infertility with clomiphene for 4 to 15 months. RESULTS: All three patients experienced prolonged afterimages (palinopsia), shimmering of the peripheral field, and photophobia while undergoing treatment with clomiphene. The results of the neuro-ophthalmologic examination and electrophysiologic studies were normal in all three patients. Unlike previously reported cases, visual symptoms did not resolve on cessation of treatment. Patients remain symptomatic from 2 to 7 years after discontinuing treatment with the medication. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment with clomiphene can cause prolonged visual disturbance. Patients who develop such symptoms should be advised that continued administration may cause irreversible changes. Women with characteristic visual symptoms should be questioned about past use of clomiphene.