Darkening around eyes from Glaucoma drops

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Please help! I am getting increasingly dark circles around my eyes from the drops I have to take for glaucoma. I am rubbish at makeup and concealers, foundations etc and they tend to sit badly or pill on my skin (dry, papery and very fine).

I look increasingly like Nosferatu - what can I use that will help? I have the InkeyList caffine eye cream, anything heavier causes puffiness, but I think I need something to lighten the area. It's not (just) aging - I look increasingly grim.

As for timolol as an alternative, there is also cosopt, which is timolol plus dorzolomide all in one bottle, and that's what I was started on. Only once that didn't cut it did they add in latanoprost. Then they added iopodine, but that's currently unavailable so brimonidine is the alternative, and actually less irritating for me.

I found the last two summers the temp here in the UK was over 30 hence why I started keeping it in the fridge. But I don’t know where you are.

I'm in the UK. It would be exceptionally rare for the temperature inside my medecines box, my bathroom to reach 25c. It's never happened yet.

I also like that the drops are cool going in my eye, it helps lessen the itchiness.

The reason Monopost is used at night is because it is a prostaglandin. It works with our circadian rhythms and the best time to administer it is between 9 pm and 10 pm. Nothing to do with redness and soreness which doesn't usually occur with Monopost although it may do for some. There are other "daytime" glaucoma drops that are more likely to cause redness and soreness (e.g. Bitmaprost) that have to be used during the day.

Tiopex is absolutely NOT a steroid and would be completely wrong to use as a glaucoma drop if it was. It is a beta blocker.

Topical steroids are usually only administered after surgery to bring down inflammation. They can actually make glaucoma worse so patients have to be monitored very carefully if they are on them.

I do know someone who just had the procedure and he’s waiting now to find out if he can stop using drops. May have already said this.

Anyway I came back to say, in case you’re not on Vinted, it’s a good place to get some of these pricey cosmetics. This time of year is good too as people are still offloading their unwanted Christmas and advent calendar items, so you might get a few bargains and hopefully find something that makes you feel a bit better.

Apologies, I thought it was.

Apologies again, the Internet advice that I found when I started using it myself was obviously wrong.

I haven't read the whole thread op, so I'm sorry if I've missed anything relevant, but I just wanted to say that my mum had this issue too, but it all seems to have gone back to normal again now (she's still taking the drops). It was very obvious to begin with, but now she's just gone back to how she looked before. So hopefully yours will do the same!

Reviving this one as it seemed relevant to my issue. I've been on cosopt in one ye for quite a long time, but found my eye was sometimes getting sore and also I had phases when the skin around it was very sort and itchy. On my last check-up they changed the prescription to a preservative-free version, Codimaz, but if anything that is making the problem worse, so that my eye looks permanently bloodshot and the skin under it is red and dry. In particular it feels quite painful for a few second when I put it into my eye. Has anyone else had that problem? I'm tempted to ask to go back onto straight Cosopt with preservative as the lesser of two evils.

Could you try two separate drops at different times? I had both the drugs that are in what your using, but as separate ones, plus a third one, and that was fine. That also might allow you to find out which one is causing the problem and change it for something else?

You’ve had great suggestions for alternatives to the drops and I can’t add anything to these but as a short-term fix you need a colour-corrector as well as or instead of a concealer. You might find that the colour corrector is enough on its own. If you know anyone with a Beauty Pie subscription their ‘superluminous under eye genius’ is very good https://www.beautypie.com/products/light-medium-superluminous-under-eye-genius?srsltid=AfmBOooMPfVYlOsXYCEFkqWmXfuwS5slNstuVFLP-oTJEihubGUfVUkB. Whatever product you get, use only the tiniest bit and build it up if necessary.

Forgot to quote you for my answer above.