Anti-depressants increase risk of glaucoma

Medication 💊 Antidepressants
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Make sure you monitor your eye-pressure as this can go up when using these anti depressants.
Worse case scenario you’ll end up having glaucoma.

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Have you got an authoritative source for that?

Update: LMGTFY:

For: Effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on glaucoma: A nationwide population-based study - PMC

Not-proven: The risk of glaucoma and serotonergic antidepressants: A systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed

It definitely makes sense to me that they could impact the eye given the anticholinergic effects.

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Intrigued. How you going to do that at home? Blood pressure yes but eye-pressure? How’s that possible? Btw Topiramate is the same and that’s an anti-seizure class drug. No doubt there are others.

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Should imagine it means keeping up visits to optician (fairly straightforward for those who already use glasses or contact lenses to see better) and demanding a pressure test at each visit?

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I just visit my optician every month or so.
They don’t mind.

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You will feel very strange pain in ur eye. It happened for me and the doctor said its the meds very common side effect.