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Bone marrow suppression as a side effect
I'm a 21 year old female with eye problems and I think I'm having a severe adverse reaction to my medications. A few months ago I was diagnosed with uveitis and put on prednisolone drops. After a months of those, I got really high eye pressure and was taken on off prednisolone drops. Currently I'm taking bromfenac brinzolamide/brimonidine drops as prescribed. It's been a week since I'm taking these drops, and ever since I started taking them, I've been feeling terrible. I'm extremely tired, I feel feverish with very cold hands and feet, severe headaches, I have chills, low appetite and generally feel unwell. However, I don't have a cough or runny nose or any other respiratory infection signs. I did a red blood cell count on myself using blood from my fingertip and got 2.5 million cells/microliter, which is rather low. A rare side effect of these eye drops I'm currently on is bone marrow suppression, and i think I have that. My eye pressure is fine now. Can I stop taking the drops?
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Hello A. Please don't stop any medicine without doctor advise else inflammation and pressure inside eye will increase again B. These symptoms like headache,tiredness and feverish etc may not be due to these medicines C. These medicines may be required for a very long period D. I think these could be some form of viral disease..So I would recommend you to consult local physician for the same ... Please don't self diagnose and don't do anything wrong after reading from internet. E. Bone marrow suppression is associated with decrease in wbc count and platelet count also..Did you check that? F. Bone marrow suppression is very serious condition....It causes serious infections and prolonged bleeding...So please don't make diagnosis from net... Consult local physician Regards
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