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Are puffy eyes and cheeks common with glivec ?

April 26, 2017cheeks common eyes glivec puffy

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Are puffy eyes and cheeks common with glivec ?

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My husband has puffy eyes and puffy cheeks. Our doctor says that it is due to a Gleevec side-effect, periorbital edema for the eyes (edema being fluid retention.) You can read about fluid retention in Dr. Druker’s article, “Practical management of Patients with CML Receiving Imatinib” which is in Jennifer’s medical file archives in her site, www.cmlsupport.com. There is a section on Edema and Fluid retention. Since not all patients get this side-effect, the doctors cannot really pinpoint the cause of the edema.