Helping to Protect Your Vision
Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that progressively damage your optic nerve. This condition develops gradually without early warning signs or symptoms. As a result, most patients don’t notice a difference in vision until the advanced stages, when extensive damage has already occurred.
Glaucoma testing is available to our patients in every routine eye exam. Using advanced diagnostic technology, our optometrists work hard to detect glaucoma in its earliest stages. Then, swift treatment can prevent further damage and save your vision.
Types of Glaucoma
Your eye consistently produces aqueous humor, which should flow in and out of your eye in perfect balance. Aqueous drains out through the drainage angle. This process keeps pressure in the eye (called intraocular pressure or IOP) stable.
- Normal-tension glaucoma: Damages the optic nerve without affecting your IOP levels.
- Open-angle glaucoma: Occurs when the drainage angle between your iris and pupil remains open, but the fluid isn’t draining correctly to maintain normal IOP.
- Closed-angle glaucoma: Occurs when the drainage angle between your iris and pupil closes, which causes a rapid increase in IOP levels.
- Sudden headaches
- Severe headaches
- Severe Eye pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Blurry vision
- “Halos” around lights