glaucoma??????

my doctor told me i might have glaucoma due to my eye examinations.. but im just curious... when you have glaucoma is your eye sort of red [due to veins] around the iris?
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my doctor checked my eyes for glaucoma only after seeing my eyes were red, and my eye lids were a bit swollen and did not show any fold. The best way to check if you have glaucoma, to have your eyes pressure checked. it does not hurt a bit and it just takes a while to know if your pressure is indeed high or low.

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Yes. Eye becomes red more around cornea called circum corneal congestion.Glaucoma has been nicknamed "the sneak thief of sight

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Glaucoma is a disease in which the optic nerve (the vision nerve) dies off slowly over time. There are many causes of glaucoma, but for many people it is related to high eye pressure. However, at least 30% of people with glaucoma have normal eye pressure.There is no one test that can definitely make the diagnosis of glaucoma. The diagnosis is made by looking carefully at the optic nerve (done by your doctor with special lenses), checking eye pressure, looking at the eye's internal drainage structures, and carefully measuring your peripheral vision.95% of glaucoma has no symptoms at all -- no pain, no noticable vision loss until very late in the disease, no redness, no swelling. This is very important to understand. Most eye diseases that cause symptoms are not glaucoma.Certain less common types of glaucoma could cause a red eye, these are rare and usually associated with very high eye pressure, pain, and markedly decreased vision. These cases are more dramatic, and there would be no question in your doctor's mind what is going on.

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If glaucoma is detected in the early stages, it is usually treated by eye drops.But when it is advanced both laser and conventional surgery are used to treat glaucoma depending on the type of glaucoma .More details and information at http://eye-care.in/glaucoma.html...

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If your doctor said that you might have glaucoma, then you need to have further tests for optic nerve damage.Or if you have a high IOP with no optic nerve damage, then you may be a glaucoma suspectYou may need eye drops in either case.Did your doctor mention what is your IOP?

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