Dear Anna,
Thank you for your kind words, but I was distressed to read about your eyes. The connection between inhaled steroids and organ damage (including the eyes) is under investigation. I hope you don't mind that I looked up a few articles. This is something I wanted to cover in the blog but people have limited patience so I had to cut the piece down.

Here's an article from 2019 that describes a subset of patients with chronic asthma who might be able to take a non-steroidal medicine and receive the same benefits. Apparently it has something to do with the amount of eosinophils in sputum. The doctor can test for this. So, it might be something for you to look into.

There are links between inhaled steroids and glaucoma.This article is from 2018 so it is fairly recent. The study does show that there is only an association with glaucoma at higher doses of inhaled steroid.

There seems to be less of an association between inhaled steroids and cataracts, according to this 2020 article from The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Hope you don't think I'm presumptuous. Years ago I had great difficulty with an autoimmune disease and learned that educating myself was the best way toward a better quality of life, so I try to share information whenever I can. Then if something goes wrong, I can't blame the doctor because I had a hand in deciding my treatment plan :)

Please be well. I do appreciate your stopping by my blog.

Affectionately,
Your friend from New York who does not want winter to come
AG