Cataract and letrozole

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Hi all.
Finished chemo in October 2016 and started letrozole in November. A few weeks later my vision starred to go blurred. I went to my optician who said my vision had changed a lot. Slowly it’s was getting worse in both eyes and phoned the to see if I could have my eyes checked again. Now I have cataract in both eyes and waiting on a date for surgery. I’m 48 years old. Has anybody else had this? X

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Hiya …sorry you have had problems …not sure of whether it’s a known side effect . I had cipra brand of letrozole a couple of times and got really blurry fuzzy eyes but when I switched back to accord. .it cleared up.
Hope all goes well for you.
Hugs xx

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Hi Gaybar,
Totally unrelated to bc, but my husband developed cataracts at about the same age, sometimes it can happen anyway.
He’s had surgery for both & his vision has been absolutely
fine ever since.
ann x

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Hi gaybar
I think I’m on a similar time scale as you. I had my eyes checked in February and I have the start of a cataract in one eye. Apparently this was due to the steroids which makes sense. I have noticed one eye has deteriorated since being on letrozole but haven’t had them rechecked yet.
Sue x

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Thanks all. Wasn’t sure if it was down to a mixture of treatment I’ve had. Tamoxifen for 5 years then chemo, steroids, letrozole and zoladex. Thankfully with surgery my vision will be ok. Just felt a bit fed up this week with one thing and another. Doesn’t help with my 3 monthly scan looming x

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Thanks. It’s not a nice feeling. It keeps making me feel a bit dizzy and I am not comfortable driving now. Hopefully my vision will be a lot better once I’ve had it done.