Early detection and strict adherence to treatment are so important to glaucoma...
My glaucoma was initially picked up by an Optometrist in 1991 when I went to him to get my glasses checked...
Despite experiencing no symptoms, my glaucoma was detected by my optician when testing for reading glasses...
When driving one afternoon, I happened to close my right eye and I realised that I had blurred vision in my left eye...
We relocated in late 2020, so I had to find a new eye specialist.
Since being diagnosed with glaucoma, I have been using several types of eye drops for 42 years.
My sister, who is four years older than I am, went to her local hospital, the Queen Elizabeth in Glasgow, Scotland.
I developed glaucoma 10 years ago, as it is hereditary and my mother had been diagnosed with it. I have to take eye drops once a day at night, one in each eye.
I was diagnosed a few years ago, not too long ago, but it´s a few years now. At first it wasn´t a definite diagnosis, just a "possible". I wanted it to be a mistake, to be something else, something fixable.