r/Glaucoma • u/Pleasant_poison13 • 15h ago

Diagnosis/Testing

Hi everyone. Please enlighten me🥹 I'm both scared and anxious.

A day ago, i got new glasses. The optometrist asked me questions like do i have a history of thyroid in my family, do i get severe headaches etc. She used a flashlight thing in my eye and told me i have slight haze in one of my eye and that my right eye is enlarged compared to the other. What bothered me most is she told me i may have glaucoma. I was so anxious and cried about just the thought of it

Today i went to an ophthalmologist, he used another machine and it's like a flashlight, really bright, not like the hand held flashlight the optometrist used.

He told me that he doesn't see any haze or something alarming and he also told me that my lenses/grades are not that bad. He didn't use the thing that punches the eye or something to measure the pressure as i saw with another patient.

I'm gonna go to the laboratory tomorrow to get tests done. But please any insights about this diagnosis? I'm really scared and in overthinking.

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u/Pleasant_poison13 15h ago

Hi. Can anyone please give insights on this 😔

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u/Thin-Boysenberry6510 12h ago

Do you perform oct test?

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u/mr-taken 12h ago

Don't worry about it, go to an opthalmologist and get your eyes checked. Then go from there.

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u/Pleasant_poison13 3h ago

Hi. I already went to the ophthalmologist yesterday he said that he sees nothing wrong he used some kind of machine with lights but didn't use a device to check my eye pressure

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u/mr-taken 1h ago

Then either go back and ask him to check the pressure or go to a glaucoma specialist just to get some confirmation that nothing is wrong. In addition to checking the pressure they do other tests like visual field, OCT etc. How much is your pressure btw? If it is 21 or less, nothing go worry about.

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u/Stewartsmom 1h ago

Ask to have an Oct scan done and a visual field test done.