Treat Glaucoma Before It Is Too Late

Treat Glaucoma Before It Is Too Late.
Alan Leighton discovered he had glaucoma when he noticed a gray square footage of eyesight in his left eye. That was in 1992. "I think about I had it a long time before that, but I didn't know until then," said Leighton, 68, a corporate treasurer who lives in Indianapolis. "Glaucoma is as if that. It's sneaky".

Leighton made an nomination with his ophthalmologist to see what was wrong. "We went for a bunch of tests, and he predetermined there was an issue with that eye, and that I had normal pressure glaucoma".

His response was unsentimental and pragmatic: His forefathers has a history of glaucoma, so the news wasn't a total surprise. "I firm that we needed to take the most proactive methods we could. I would go to the best people I could find and consult what methods they had to address it and keep it from getting worse. I wanted to keep it from affecting my right eye, which was extent clear. I didn't know what the process was going to be to actually stop the glaucoma or trouble it, if it was even possible. I don't know if there was a lot of emotion involved. It was more like, 'Hey, what can we do about this?'".

He asked if there was any means to restore the sight he'd lost, and the answer was no. "They fairly much said that gray area in my left eye was going to stay there, and there was no opening to do any procedures to effectively change that. It had something to do with the optic nerve".