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I Have Expericened Deepening of the Upper Sulcus While Using Latisse, Will This Reverse?

asked 7 months ago by aliro
Latest answer by Relief Jones, III, MD
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Tags: side effects

i have experiecned a significant deeping of the upper sulcus after using latisse for 25 months every night, will this effect reverse from discontinuing the use of latise or will it reverse if i decrease the application to every third night of using the product.

2 answers to I Have Expericened Deepening of the Upper Sulcus While Using Latisse, Will This Reverse?

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Bimatoprost Induced Fat Atrophy

Your question is a good one and one that has not been brought up very much. When I was doing my training as a glaucoma specialist at the Harvard Medical School, the co-directors of the glaucoma department, Drs. Lou Pasquale and Cynthia Grosskreutz brought to my attention a very intersting side effect of the prostaglandin eye drops (most notable bimatoprost). They published a paper on their findings and I think you will find this paper interesting as it answers your question. Links can not be... more
Relief Jones, III, MD

San Antonio Ophthalmologist
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Latisse does not cause deepening of the sulcus

After 25 months of using Latisse, I suspect the changes you are seeing in deepening of the upper sulcus are do to normal aging and not Latisse. To my knowledge, this was not reported as an adverse reaction in any of the studies involving thousands of patients using Latisse. Perhaps you are experiencing some swelling which has caused an appearance of the sulcus looking deeper. Try stopping Latisse as well as application of all other cosmetic products or make up to the area for a few weeks and... more
Mitchell Schwartz, MD

South Burlington Dermatologic Surgeon

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