Early detection and strict adherence to treatment are so important to glaucoma...
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...
Since being diagnosed with glaucoma, I have been using several types of eye drops for 42 years.
We relocated in late 2020, so I had to find a new eye specialist.
My sister, who is four years older than I am, went to her local hospital, the Queen Elizabeth in Glasgow, Scotland.
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.
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 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.