Lexapro/Propecia exacerbating dry eye?

[dnew85]

Can Lexapro and Propecia cause or exacerbate dry eye symptoms? If they can, will stopping them result in improved dry eye symptoms and in what time frame?

Thanks,

dnew

[Robert Latkany MD]

Lexipro for sure and propecia unlikely.
A few weeks later and it should be back to your baseline.

[bigblues]

Could Lexapro have caused my pinguecula to occur? Thank you for your help!

[shirley bailey]

Lexipro for sure and propecia unlikely.
A few weeks later and it should be back to your baseline.

Dr Latkany, I was taking 20mg of Lexepro & dropped down to 10mg, but I seem to need that 10mg, when I went on lexapro my dr told me, this was not as drying as other depressant is there a better one, I sure would appreciate your help

[Robert Latkany MD]

Definitely not. But it could have aggravated your dry eyes and made your pingueculum look worse. But it did not cause your growth the UV rays did,