Glaucoma

Glaucoma - Have You Had Your Pressure Checked Lately?
Gradual loss of vision, often without symptoms
Glaucoma (glaw-KOH-muh). A disease of the eye marked by increased pressure within the eyeball. If left untreated, glaucoma can damage the optic nerve and cause loss of vision. HELPING PROVIDE CUBAN GLAUCOMA VICTIMS BETTER VISION BY HARNESSING NEW, AFFORDABLE OCULAR TECHNOLOGY

January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month
Glaucoma is one of those scary medical words you don't expect to hear from a doctor talking to you, about you. Glaucoma is an eye disease that can rob you of your vision almost before you even realize you have a problem, so they call it the silent thief of sight. Glaucoma doesn't have any symptoms; that's why you don't realize something is wrong with your vision. What is happening is that the pressure of the fluid in your eyes is rising and pressing against the optic nerve. This damages it a...

Living with Glaucoma
Eyesight is Important
About twenty years ago I was diagnosed with glaucoma. It began as an acute attack sending me to the emergency department on a number of occasions, but by the time I sat in the waiting room for a few hours, the early symptoms were gone, and general on-call doctors found nothing wrong. I was told that it was most likely a migraine headache, and indeed I did suffer serious headaches during these attacks. Since it seemed I could see just fine afterwards, I took the doctor at his word each time, g...