Dry eyes with excessive blinking

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Sir, i am suffering from ocd. I am on medication sertraline 100 mg. But due to it, i am suffering from dry eyes with excessive blinking. I can't change the medicine because other ssris can't work in my case as well as decrease the dose of medicine. I am taking this medicine from one year. I am taking lubricant eye drop but couldn't benefit sufficiently. What should i do. Please suggest me.

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Dr. Sartaj Deepak Psychiatrist 13 yrs exp Ghaziabad Consult Now · Accepted Answer

Dr. Sartaj Deepak

Psychiatrist 13 yrs exp Ghaziabad

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Hi, I understand your distress. It is an adverse drug reaction to sertraline. It has anticholinergic effects which is responsible for the dry eyes. In your case, you dont wanna change the dose or the drug the only possibility remains is to visit an ophthalmologist for a better variety of tear drops (multiple varities available) which can help you with dry eyes and yes this increased blinking is a reflex action to dry eyes. And at last i need to say that the anticholinergic side effect decreases with time but the effect persists or get better with time.

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