Question:
how to we control the glaucoma without
risking cataract trouble? Or, will controlling glaucoma through other means
also prevent cataract?
Answer:
The only association of these two problems that I've seen written is
in the case of congenital glaucoma. Of course, the MDs are not about
to tell you their glaucoma-curing wares have been found to cause
cataracts, even if they have been.
Everybody (the old folks anyway) in my family has had cataract surgery. At 46,
when I complained of haloes, fuzzy vision,etc. I was informed by my mother
that that's how her cataracts started showing. So I figured that I had eye
strain and the beginnings of cataracts. No one in my family has ever had
glaucoma. I have angle closure glaucoma, which (hopefully) has been fixed.
Still being checked periodically for high pressures since surgery. OK so far,
and no more "cataract/eye strain" attacks. OH BOY, I guess I can look forward
to cataracts too. My eyeballs will eventually look like Zorro visited them.
