Eye problems while under a statin regimen?

[cjbrooksjc]

I have read queries on this forum of those of us who have experienced vision problems attributable to statin use; myself included. It is not your imagination.

*www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18930555

Abstract: Casey Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239-4197, USA. *eyedrug@ohsu.edu

PURPOSE: To report the association between 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins) and diplopia, blepharoptosis (ptosis), and ophthalmoplegia. DESIGN: Database study. PARTICIPANTS: Two hundred fifty-six subjects studied. CONCLUSIONS: According to WHO criteria, the relationship between statin therapy and diplopia, ptosis, or ophthalmoplegia is possible.

Your ophthalmologist may be interested in this document.

Best,

Brooks

[BSGfan]

After many years on Lopid and Zocor, I developed frequent shimmering visual distortions that were diagnosed as ocular migraines. I went off the medications, and I found the ocular migraines subsided dramatically. However, they have not ceased altogether. I find that 25 mg Atenolol daily supresses them.

[David Staup]

I had the same problem (ocular migranes) prior to statins...500mg vitamin c took care of them for me and when I stopped the vit c for a while they returned.

David