Daily glaucoma answers journal 040

Glaucoma has a way of arriving quietly. Many patients expect a serious eye disease to announce itself with pain, redness, blurred vision, or a dramatic change in sight. Glaucoma usually does not. In its most common forms, it can damage the optic nerve for years before a person notices anything wrong. By the time vision loss becomes obvious, the disease has often reached a stage where the lost sight cannot be restored. That is why an eye pressure test carries so much