Can you live a normal life with glaucoma?

[Roswell]

How can glaucoma affect our life? Can i get a normal life if i suffered from glaucoma?

[Mineral Wells]

Glaucoma is such a serious eye problem which you need to pay attention to. Once people get glaucoma, they may find a lot of side effects in life. Their normal life will be affected. People with glaucoma will find difficulty in seeing things clearly. They may have the blurry vision to some degree. If they don't treat the glaucoma well, they may have high possibility to get the cataracts. Thus, protecting the eyes is so important.

[Rotan]

People who satisfy factors as follows may be more possible to get glaucoma than others, that is , over age 40, have a family history of glaucoma, have poor vision, have diabetes, take certain steroid medications, such as prednisone. It is hard to say whether glaucoma can affect your life or not. Becasue glaucoma may lead to pain, redness, burning in eyes and vision loss may also follow. These will let you complain about your life, however, normal life cannot be affected if you do as your doctor told you. But if you do not take any medical measures for your glaucoma, blindness, even permanent blindness will happen. Then your daily life will become abnormal soon.

[Mineral Springs]

There are several varieties of glaucoma, such as acute angle closure glaucoma, chronic angle closure glaucoma, open-angle glaucoma, congenital glaucoma and secondary glaucoma. But they all can bring about bad influences on our life. Acute angle closure glaucoma will cause severe ocular pain, the ipsilateral headache, halo vision, dilated pupil and so on. People who gets it can't live a normal life; Chronic angle closure glaucoma will bring about eye discomfort, the onset of vision. And most people will feel uncomfortable after these symptoms disappear, so it also affect the normal life of people; The main characteristics of open angle glaucoma are dizziness, headache, eye swelling and unstable tension of eyeball. People can live a normal life temporarily; Congenital glaucoma and secondary glaucoma can cause shedding tears, elevated intraocular pressure. Whatever kind of glaucoma if you get, please seize the time to seek treatment because your normal life will be affected seriously by glaucoma.