![Image of reading glasses on top of books](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-10/2022.10%20eNews%20Lesley%27s%20Story%20%28740%20%C3%97%20444px%29.png)
Since being diagnosed with glaucoma, I have been using several types of eye drops for 42 years.
![Image of a woman driving](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-10/2022.10%20eNews%20Margaret%20Story%20%28740%20%C3%97%20444px%29.png)
We relocated in late 2020, so I had to find a new eye specialist.
![An image of reading glasses and a reading chart](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-09/Christine%27s%20Story%20%28740%20%C3%97%20444px%29.png)
My sister, who is four years older than I am, went to her local hospital, the Queen Elizabeth in Glasgow, Scotland.
![Image of Mariya smiling](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-08/Mariya%20740x444.png)
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.
![Image of a cup of tea](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-08/Margaret%20740x444.png)
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.
![Image of Carmen Bell](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-06/Carmen%20Bell%20%20%28740%20%C3%97%20444px%29.png)
I am 52 years old and have had glaucoma since 2005. I first heard about glaucoma when my uncle told us he had it, it was hereditary and we should get tested for it.
![Doctor with crossed arms](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-06/Catherine%27s%20Story%20740x444.png)
When I was 45 years old, a routine appointment with my mother's ophthalmologist found that I had already lost some vision in my left eye due to glaucoma.
![Image of an eye painted with world map.](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-06/OAW%20Insights%20article%20740x444.png)
![Image of a steep street path](https://glaucoma.org.au/sites/default/files/2022-05/Therese%20Story%20740x444px.jpg)
My mother had glaucoma, but not my father. All my sisters have it, and some brothers, not at all...