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Q: Anyone Have Allergies to Dilation Drops?

asked by: littlemisstery on February 16th, 2006

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I went home one day from the eye doctor after noticing when he dilated my eyes they felt numb, and that night I had a splitting headache. When I woke up the next morning one pupil was fully dilated and the other was the size of a pinpoint, and my splitting headache hadn't ceased. Has anyone ever been diagnosed with being allergic to the eye drops they use to dilate your eyes? I've heard it's like 1 in 100,000, but I have it :| to make it worse my eyesight isn't that great to begin with, so it makes me wonder if this will somehow affect my lens prescription.

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aarins

replied on March 24th, 2009

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drops to dllate eyes

I have continuously told the doctor that the drops are very uncomfortable and could i please skip them. The doctors always told me that there could not be any problems with the drops and I continued to take them. They left my eyes feeling numb and my face and head in an achey kind of state. I wonder if they agravated my sinus and contribute to excessive light flashes and vision loss. I have severe eye pain with the barometric pressure changes.

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