Caring for your eyes
How should I care for my eyes?
To help manage your risk of vision changes, here are some steps you can take:
- You should use steroid and lubricating eye drops as directed by your doctor. Your doctor will prescribe steroid eye drops and over-the-counter, lubricating, preservative-free eye drops for use before and during treatment with ELAHERE. Refer to the ELAHERE Eye Care Brochure for more detailed information
- Avoid wearing contact lenses throughout your treatment with ELAHERE unless your doctor tells you that you can
- During treatment with ELAHERE, tell your doctor if you experience any eye problems, including blurred vision, dry eyes, sensitivity to light, eye pain, eye redness, or new or worsening vision changes
Need reminders to use your eye drops? There are several mobile apps available for download, designed to help you and/or your caregiver remember your eye drop schedule. You or your caregiver can find a variety to choose from at your preferred app store
Steroid eye drops
Using steroid eye drops is recommended while taking ELAHERE.
Steroid Eye Drop Schedule for Each ELAHERE Infusion Cycle (Every 3 Weeks)
Lubricating eye drops
The use of preservative-free lubricating eye drops is also recommended at least 4 times daily and as needed during treatment. Wait at least 10 minutes after applying steroid eye drops before using lubricating eye drops.
While on treatment, use this tool to help track your eye drop use, notes to share with your doctor, and upcoming appointments
If you experience side effects, your doctors may talk with each other about next steps such as:
- Your oncologist may pause treatment until your symptoms improve. Once symptoms improve, you may resume treatment
- Your oncologist may decide to continue treatment with ELAHERE, but at a reduced dose
- Depending on how serious the eye-related side effects are, your oncologist may have you discontinue treatment
Best practices for helping manage eye-related side effects during treatment
Learn more about how to work with your care team to help manage potential eye-related side effects, best practices for eye care, and what to expect during the regularly scheduled eye exams throughout treatment from Dr Lamoreau, an optometrist.
You may experience blurred vision due to eye-related side effects while receiving ELAHERE
If you experience blurred vision or vision changes, you should contact your doctor
As you will need to avoid wearing contact lenses during your treatment with ELAHERE, you may find it helpful to wear reading glasses, or to buy a different strength at your local pharmacy or other retail stores. Talk to your eye doctor about this and other eyewear options.
Tips to help address vision changes
On days when your vision is blurry, you may need to make the type bigger on your devices. Here are some ways to do so (specific examples based on your phone model may vary):
iPhone
Go to Settings, then Accessibility, then select Display & Text Size. Tap Larger Text for larger font options. Drag the slider to the size you want.
Android
Open your device’s Settings app. Select Accessibility, then Text and Display. Select Font Size, and use the slider to select the size you want.
Computer
Did you know you can increase the font size on a website you’re viewing? For example, if you have a mouse with a wheel, on a PC you can hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard and then scroll the wheel down to increase text size (scroll up to decrease text size). Even without a mouse, key commands can do the same thing. Search online for tips specific to your device.
Additional support for you
Before you start treatment with ELAHERE, your doctor will have you meet with an eye doctor for an eye exam
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