Question:
he question for the pros is, 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.
Regarding the similarity of glaucoma and cataract symptons, the AMA
Encyclopedia of Medicine on pages 240 and 488 leaves such an impression, as
does the book, Glaucoma and Its Medical Treatment, by E.M. Josephson. The
Encyclopedia of Medicine and Nursing, Miller-Keane, mentions the halos and
cloudiness of glaucoma, which many thought applied to cataract.
