Timolol (Ophthalmic Route)

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Side Effects

Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.

Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:

• Blurred vision
• Burning or stinging in eye

• Arm, back, or jaw pain
• Blisters, hives, welts, or itching
• Blue lips, fingernails, or skin
• Burning, crawling, itching, numbness, prickling, "pins and needles", or tingling feelings
• Change in vision
• Chest pain or discomfort
• Chest tightness or heaviness
• Confusion about identity, place, and time
• Continuing ringing or buzzing or other unexplained noise in ears
• Coughing that sometimes produces a pink frothy sputum
• Depression
• Difficult, fast, noisy breathing, sometimes with wheezing
• Difficulty in chewing, swallowing, or talking
• Dilated neck veins
• Discharge, excessive tearing
• Disturbed color perception
• Dizziness, faintness, or lightheadedness when getting up from a lying or sitting position suddenly
• Double vision
• Drooping eyelids
• Dry or itching eyes
• Extreme fatigue
• False sense of well-being
• Fast, slow, irregular, pounding, or racing heartbeat or pulse
• Fear, nervousness
• Feeling of having something in the eye
• Fever and chills
• Flashes of light, floaters in vision
• General feeling of discomfort or illness
• Hair loss
• Halos around lights
• Headaches
• Inability to speak
• Increased sweating
• Irregular, fast or slow, or shallow breathing
• Large, hive-like swelling on face, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, or sex organs
• Lightheadedness, dizziness, or fainting
• Loss of vision
• Memory loss
• Mood swings
• Muscle or joint pain
• Muscle weakness
• Nausea
• Night blindness
• No blood pressure or pulse
• Overbright appearance of lights
• Pain, tension, and weakness upon walking that subsides during periods of rest
• Pale skin
• Paleness or cold feeling in fingertips, toes, hands, and feet
• Personality changes
• Pounding in the ears
• Puffiness or swelling of the eyelids or around the eyes, face, lips, or tongue
• Redness of skin
• Redness, pain, swelling or irritation of eye, eyelid, or inner lining of eyelid
• Seeing double
• Seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there
• Seizures
• Severe numbness, especially on one side of the face or body
• Severe or sudden headache
• Severe tiredness
• Shortness of breath or troubled breathing
• Skin irritation or rash, including rash that looks like psoriasis
• Slurred speech
• Sore throat
• Stopping of heart
• Sweating
• Swelling of face, fingers, feet, lower legs, and ankles
• Swollen glands
• Temporary blindness
• Tingling or pain in fingers or toes when exposed to cold
• Tunnel vision
• Unconsciousness
• Unusual tiredness or weakness
• Weakness in arm and/or leg on one side of the body, sudden and severe
• Weight gain
• Wheezing

Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:

• Acid or sour stomach
• Belching
• Body aches or pain
• Diarrhea
• Dry mouth
• Ear congestion
• Hearing loss
• Heartburn
• Indigestion
• Lack or loss of strength
• Loss of appetite
• Loss of voice
• Nightmares
• Runny nose
• Sleepiness or unusual drowsiness
• Sleeplessness
• Sneezing
• Stomach discomfort, upset, or pain
• Stuffy nose
• Trouble sleeping
• Unable to sleep
• Weight loss

Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.

Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.

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