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tropicamide can damage the sphincter muscle?

hello!
i have used tropìcamide 1% eye drops to treat an accommodative spasm for 4 months, 1 drop in each eye, every night. and now i see ghost images with my left eye, if i put light in my eye i see normal.  i think that tropicamide damaged the sphincter muscle and the pupil remains bigger than the other eye. i have stop the treatment 3 weeks ago.
is possible that tropicamide damage the muscles eye forever?  im afraid.

thank you very much, and sorry for my bad english!
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711220 tn?1251891127
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Not likely,

Dr. O.
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Thank you for the answer!
How much time should pass to recover the muscles?
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