Xalatan Side Effects Poll and Discussion
August 30, 2008 · Filed Under Health Polls
Have you experienced Xalatan side effects?
| Yes, Severe |  78% |
| Yes, Mild | 22% |
| Yes, Minor | 0% |
| No | 0% |
Use this link to participate in Xalatan Side Effects Poll or use this link to Submit a more detailed side effect report.
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I took Xalatan for 10 months. During the first 3 to 4 weeks I had red itchy eyes and frequent pain in the eyeball. Gradually I developed cardiac arrhythmia which I had never had before. I do not take any other medicines. The arrythmia became worse and a cardilogist diagnosed me with sick-sinus syndrome Lown III. Xalatan was discontinued. The arrhythmia became slightly better, but was irreversible. As it turned out, Xalatan had permanently and completely damaged the sinu artrial node, so that I had to have a pacemaker implanted, which is causing so many problems that I spend more time in hospital than outside.
I am 47 and my life has been ruined by Xalatan.
I do not understand why this drug has not been forbidden!
I used Xalatan for 2 weeks. My sinus’s and the right side of my neck became so painful that I couldn’t even touch them. I could barely swallow.
I was then given Brimonidine Tartrate. One drop in the right eye and 30 minutes later I was on the way to the hospital with a Tachycardia and my left side went ‘dead’. It took 2 weeks for my left side to come back to normal.
I’m a 46 year old female.
Right now I’m taking NOTHING for my glaucoma.
I don’t know what I’m going to do.
Was on Xalatan (and later, Lumigan) for several years (for glaucoma); finally stopped because of all the undesirable side-effects. (Unfortunately, stopping the drops apparently caused optic nerve damage and am now back on Xalatan, with a repeat of undesirable side-effects from first go-round, listed below.)
Side effects included: darkening of orbital area and lids (”raccoon-eyes”); red, itchy eyes; cholesterol deposits around eyes; thickening & lengthening of lashes necessitating clipping of lashes because they hit eyeglasses; greasy-feeling eyes, lids, & eye areas; blurry vision; iris-color change; hair loss; acne & pimples; increased anxiety. Also insomnia, depression, and heart irregularities that may or may not be related to the eye drops.
Doctors & drug company leaflets do not discuss all these side-effects and offer nothing by way of help with them. Even though high eye pressure is dangerous and potentially vision-damaging, the side-effects of Xalatan and similar prostaglandin-like drugs are *serious* and drug companies & researchers should be trying *harder* to find a way to minimize or stop these side-effects.
Further, the bottle that Xalatan comes in is ridiculous! There is no excuse for such a crummy bottle; it is tiny, hard to open, and hard to squeeze uniform drops from it. The price of Xalatan is also astronomical. These things HAVE to change.