Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness, especially because the most common type (open-angle glaucoma) doesn’t cause noticeable symptoms early on. If you have a glaucoma diagnosis, it means both good news and bad news.
The bad news is that you have an eye condition you now need to manage. But the good news is that you’ve been proactive enough about protecting your vision to see an eye doctor and get this condition diagnosed. That gives you the best odds of protecting your ability to see long-term.
More good news: you don’t have to figure out how to manage your glaucoma on your own. Robert Ancona, OD, and the Eyedrop Optique team offer glaucoma treatment as part of our suite of eye care services. Visit our office in Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York, and we can help you find the best way to protect your eyes from glaucoma-related vision loss.
Unfortunately, researchers haven’t yet uncovered a cure for glaucoma. Instead, a diagnosis with this condition means you need to take steps to keep it under control as you move forward.
Our team offers a variety of effective glaucoma management options. Many people successfully keep their eyes healthy with daily medicated eye drops.
You won’t necessarily notice a change in the way your eyes feel or your ability to see as you use your prescribed glaucoma medication. Because of this, people often forget to use their drops or get less careful about putting them in as prescribed. But sticking with the schedule for these drops helps them work best.
The only way to know whether or not your medication is working is to visit our office regularly so we can test your eye pressure. We help you set up the right cadence of appointments to stay on top of managing your glaucoma.
If these eye drops don’t successfully lower the pressure in your eye — the issue that causes glaucoma and leads to blindness — we can help you explore next steps.
If medication doesn’t keep your eye pressure in check, you can turn to laser surgery. This procedure allows an expert to relieve accumulated eye pressure by draining excess fluid. Within six weeks, your eye doctor will be able to tell if the surgery was successful.
If it wasn’t, other surgical options can help you save your vision. Different procedures exist to provide the drainage channel your eye needs to avoid fluid build-up.
Once you get a glaucoma diagnosis, you need to be proactive to guard against vision loss. With regular visits to our office to monitor your eyes and a personalized treatment plan, our team helps ensure your eye health. To get glaucoma care and safeguard your ability to see, call our office or request an appointment online today.
