Hey guys, looking for someone with medical experience to answer this question, please...
I have ocular rosacea. It was bad for a while & then sort of disappeared, and has now reappeared. I am trying to reset my diet to cope with it (no alcohol, low carbs and sugars, lots of water, etc). Doctor gave me Lastacast but it's not doing much of anything.
For several years I was using Alrex sporadically with GREAT success. I had my pressure checked regularly and there was never a problem. The last time I went back to my doc however he said that I shouldn't use Alrex regularly and took me off of it. I'm wondering if anyone has any concrete info on this: IS Alrex safe to use long-term (say, once a day, each eye), provided that your pressure in the eye does not increase and is monitored? Can there be other long-term effects that appear instantly without any warning, even without increased pressure? I don't want to be on this forever but I'm in agony and it really does help.
Here's a study I found which seems to point toward the safety of Alrex, esp given that some of the patients had instilled over 3,000 (!) drops/year??
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14722462