From the category archives:

Eyes

Annual eye test

September 29, 2009

After you finished treatment, did anyone tell you that you should have a yearly eye test?  No?  I wasn’t told
either, but this is vitally important.  According to Opthalmologist Sandip Sahota, drug deposits can sit in the
eye – so we need to get these checked annually.
Sandip runs Eye to Eye in Knightsbridge, London, and fully [...]

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Tamoxifen Trouble

September 27, 2009

Moorfields Eye Hospital
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A week after starting Tamoxifen, I woke up and all I could see was a greyish-yellow film across my right eye; nothing else.
Thinking the worst, I rushed to my Oncology Doctor. “I’ve never seen this before – I am sure it isn’t anything to worry about”.
Oh yeah?
(Eventually I [...]

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