Taste Change with Medication for Glaucoma?!


Question:

Taste Change with Medication for Glaucoma?

I have glaucoma in one eye, and for 6 weeks was on methazolomide, Neptazane. It didn't lower the pressure, and it had the nasty side effect of causing everything I eat to taste like crap. So I stopped it, with the doctor's approval.

The pharmacist said my sense of taste will return to normal in time. Is there any chance it will stay crappy like this?

Does anyone know how long this will take? I miss tasting food. Thanks

Additional Details

1 month ago
Thank you so much yagman. I have had laser twice, and am on Trusopt and Travatan. The pills were in addition to those, but they did not do anything to lower pressure. Probably this year I will have invasive surgery. I am only 51, that is what they are concerned about.

1 month ago
Thank you also Paul B. I know the things about putting drops in, but I will make a more concerted effort today. I wait at least 15 mins between drops. I do shake the bottle. I was gettting it in my throat but have abated on that a bit. I am usually as tough as nails with meds, it really throws me that this glaucoma is so stubborn. At least it is now just the one eye. The one I had retinal reattachment laser in 10 years ago. It is a mess. I wish they could take it out, rebuild it and put it back in!


Answers:

Don't worry. As the neptazane is metabolized and excreted by your body your taste will return to normal.

I am interested as to why your doctor used oral neptazane to treat your glaucoma. I seldom use oral drugs for glaucoma treatment for exactly this reason. I am trying to treat a localized disease of an eye that can generally be well treated with TOPICAL drops which have very low risk of generalized side effects. Neptazane requires regular monitoring of your blood to check for any of these side effects.

I would recommend controlling your pressures using topical drops if at all possible. If the drops are not able to control your pressure adequately, there are laser procedures such as SLT that can be very helpful in controlling pressures. I personally would only use orals as a last ditch effort only if other options are not effective. Hope this helped.




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