I am 37 year old with diabetes and have been diagnosed with Glaucoma in my right eye. I want to know what is the best treatment and management of glaucoma. Is surgery safe and will there be no recurrence of glaucoma. The eye specialist has given me eye drops which I have to put life long. Or should I go for surgery.
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You are only 37 years old & have been put on anti-glaucoma drugs. Now a days surgery is not first line treatment because there is lot's of eye drops to control intra ocular pressure (iop. First get optic disc evaluation & perimetery done by glaucoma specialist to assess the stage of glaucoma, then medication will be decided. Like blood pressure, regular check up must for iop monitoring, you will not be advised for surgery at present & will be put on anti-glaucoma eye drops with regular check up.
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The first line of management of glaucoma is with eyedrops. Only if no response to max medication, will surgery be considered. Yes, the treatment is lifelong. You require regular check up with your eye specialist for your eye-pressure reading and also visual field testing. Also, your doctor might keep changing the eyedrops till target pressure is achieved It is also important that all your siblings is brothers and sisters be checked up for glaucoma, as it tends to run in families.
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If I have glaucoma I will like to have surgery so that I do not have to put eye drops lifelong. Usually doctors continue with medication for many years. You have to make own decision.
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