Q: Can taking medication pills for high blood pressure cause a problem with your vision?
A: Drugs can have all sorts of side effects. Certain blood pressure drugs can cause dry eyes. This can cause problems with vision, especially for contact lens wearers. If you have recently been put on a medication and are having visual problems, talk to your doctor.
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I had high blood pressure for many years. (Now under control.) When I was diagnosed with cataracts, the eye surgeon said the hp had damaged my eyes and was very concerned whether it was safe to operate. Fortunately, after he decided to operate, the procedure was successful.
Just love it when people tell you to talk to your doctor about side effects. Mine just tells me that I’m getting them because I don’t want to take the pills. She’s right in that I don’t want to take the pills, but it’s because of the side effects, not the other way round.
Totally agree. Have the same issue with my doctor, too. I’ve also read that taking a low dose aspirin everyday can cause or contribute to Macular Degeneration. I have my eyes examined every year by an opthamologist. I was prescribed an otc for allergy eye drops. My eyes were still scratchy, blurry. Then it got worse and I was told the retina was in danger of becoming detached. He said I need to use drops for dry eyes, particularly when on the computer. Funny my regular Opthamologist never told me about dry eyes. Anyway, the drops do help. Makes you wonder about some of these professionals.
Yes, my previous doctor(s) also said it was because I didn’t want to take the pills. I actually got access to a letter a specialist wrote to my physician, basically telling him that he thought that I was a hypochondriac and that ‘he never ever heard of the side-effects she is talking about’.
Thankfully, I now found a new doctor who is much more conservative with prescribing any kind of medications and also is open to alternative treatment. Strange is that under her care, and not being harassed with BP measuring at every visit my BP has come down to acceptable levels. Not perfect, keep an eye on it, but not in need of medications.
Sometimes I wonder whether the constant measuring of BP actually may cause so much anxiety in patients that it may cause unnecessary treatment.
I agree that constant measuring BP can cause and elevate BP. How is someone with serious white coat supposed to get a true reading anyhow?
there is a good reason why we are all on here looking for real credible answers! …. and part of that reason is that our Drs are NOT providing them. Go figure! sometimes the process of seeking CREDIBLE INFORMATION is a bit “circular”. If you were creating a software program “circular logic” is a real PROBLEM to be fixed before the thing can work. The standard protocol of circulating the questioners back to the Doctors who are just mimicking Big Pharma’s latest BS is unproductive. please excuse my bluntness 🙂 sometimes my sense of humour just seems to slip away …Merry Christmas anyway 🙂 🙂
Keith, I love your sense of humor. I didn’t know about the ‘circular logic’, but I totally get it with doctors and High BP treatment.
I’s beginning to feel the same way about some of the advice we get from Dr. Rowena, on this website. But, I keep coming back for the articles written by others…telling of how they got off of High Blood Pressure Meds.
I do have berderline hypertension and have been on meds for years now Noone told me dry eyes could be a sideeffect It is so bothersome to me I am so uncomfortable with my dry eyes sometimes i do use drops but my ears even feel dry and irritated Inside of them i wonder if that could be another sideeffect Just took my BP and it was 122/72 but my eyes and ears are totally bothering me What to do?
Talk to my doctor? He has risen so high, he makes everyone so uncomfortable; they know better than to talk to him. Any talk has it’s rebuffs, put-downs, redicule, contradictions & back talk, that none of his patient’s talk to him; or many do not talk to him. My blood pressure goes so high starting several days before an appointment, that I am always he is going to make me check into a hospital. I never want him to attend me in a hospital! I am hoping the new doctor I am seeing in January is one I can trust enough to not run my BP up.
This Dr is the only Dr that anxiety causes my BP to go over 200/over 100, and pule up to 115.
I have to change doctors to save my life!
Scares me to hear the statement, “Talk to your doctor”! That would be like telling a Jewish person, “Hey, you would like this Hitler, guy!”
No offense, Dr. Rowena. Not “all” doctors are good doctors! It may take awhile now, to get my BP lower again. I have to call in the morning to cancel an appointment with my present doctor (and he not going to be happy about it!). His office clerk is not going to be happy about it either! I may have to make another appt. Just to appease her. His staff are often rude to patients, bordering on abuse.
I am an LPC. I recognize abuse quickly! Grumbling georgia