Scroll down to the bottom of this blog to take survey about your eye pressure

It was during a routine eye exam at my optometrist that I found I had some serious problems with my eyes.

I invite you to take the survey about eye pressure at the bottom of this blog. Scroll down and you'll be given one question and several choices for answers.

Do you know the eye pressure in each eye? Are you familiar with why it's important?

Are you familiar with glaucoma?

From Glaucoma Research Foundation: Explanation of Primary Open Angle Glaucoma

My ophthalmologist has always described my glaucoma as chronic open-angle, but this piece from the Glaucoma Research Foundation seems to describe the same thing, but calls it Primary Open Angle.

Fluid in the eye, according to the piece, can't drain out because of clogs in the drainage canals. It's free to come in, but can't go out. Consequently, the pressure rises.

Glaucoma: To manage my disease I need to be more informed

I was diagnosed with chronic open-angle glaucoma a few years ago. This followed cataracts and lens implants in both eyes.

My ophthalmologist has reassured me that my disease is being managed and that my sight should be fine for the future.

I'm a sixty-year-old male who realizes the importance of keeping my vision. As I move through this journey, I know I need to understand as much as I can about my eyes and how they work and about the disease that I will have for the rest of my life.

That's what this blog is about. I want to use it as a tool to sort out and retrieve information that will help me be informed and help me make good decisions about my eyes.