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Reviewer: katinka, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I recently had glaucoma and cataract combined surgery. My eye surgeon prescribed this medicine for me to use after surgery. About 12-13 days later, I started to experience sharp pain in my eyeball and a lot of excess fluid in my eye. After I stopped using the eye drops, it slowly got better. Do not use this product for a long time! Talk to your pharmacist about the dangers!
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Reviewer: terryd, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I had a mini shunt implant and was prescribed this med for inflammation. Was told I would be on it 4x's a day for apx 90 days. It's been 2 weeks and have experienced mood swings, headaches and nausea. I get crying spells, and am very depressed, which is so not like me. I am also on 2 other drops, so not sure which one is causing the effects, or if it a combination. I'm concerned a
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Reviewer: NeverAgain, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I had a trabulectomy with shunt & was on this every 3 hours for 3 weeks to prevent swelling. It made me so enraged I was bordering on being a lunatic so filled with anger that I felt like I could bite someones face off if they just looked at me the wrong way! I was screaming at the top of my lungs for minor annoyances! I felt like I wanted to crawl out of my own skin. It is like PMSing 1000 fo
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Reviewer: E.T., 65-74 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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nauseus from the drops
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Reviewer: 13roses, 35-44 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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after using this for the first time because of having laser eye surgery with in minutes I get a very nasty taste in my mouth which u cant get rid of I've even tried mint mouth wash .
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