Section: Glaucoma
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My eyes are always filmy as if something is over them. I had rk surgery 15 yrs ago, Lasik 5 yrs ago, and I had cataract almost 2 years ago. My eyes are constantly either hurting or blurry. Is there anything I can do?
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You've certainly had a lot done to your eyes. It's hard to say what is causing your blurriness and pain without seeing you.
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Section: Glaucoma
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Doctor,In the past 60 days on 2 different days,very suddenly,with no pain,and in both eyes,my vision became very blurred and distorted.I am a 47 year old male with perfect 20/20 vision all my life.I was under no medications at the time of these spells.Please help me...Drew Roper
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The differential diagnosis for sudden painless vision loss is long. I would want to know how long the loss lasted, whether you recovered completely, whether there were any associated symptoms, and the character of the vision loss (just blurring or did your vision grey out or blackout?) The eye exam would be very important in the diagnosis of your problem also. The list of possibilities would include a tear film distortion, an embolus to the retinal vasculature, swelling of the optic nerves, a migraine variant, and many others. There is really no way to tell without examening you.
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Section: Glaucoma
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is macular degeneration heridity? can diabeties cause blindness?
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Macular degeneration certainly can be inherited, however, not all decendants of a person with the disease will get it.
Diabetes can cause blindness. A diabetic person's best defense against this terrible outcome is to control your blood sugars carefully with your primary doctor's help, and to have a dilated eye exam every year. If we detect diabetic retinopathy early, we can usually intervene very sucessfully. If a patient has neglected his yearly exams and comes to us with advanced diabetic eye disease, then the treatment is much more difficult and sometimes not as effective.
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Section: Glaucoma
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what does the medical marajuna do for glaucoma and how does one know if he or she can have glucoma?
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Marijuana does lower eye pressure a little bit, but we don't use it for the treatment of glaucoma because we have many eyedrops, pills and procedures that give far superior results without the harmful physiologic and social effects of marijuana. The only way to know if you have glaucoma is to have a complete eye exam including dilation.
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Section: Glaucoma
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I have always had high pressure in my eyes(right 27- left 28). I had two Aunts that had glaucoma. I have check ups every two years. How will I know when further testing is needed? I do not want to lose vision.What causes eye hypertension? Can you give me some guidelines?
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With ocular hypertension and a family history of glaucoma I would certainly do some testing now including a complete eye exam with dilation and a visual field test, and possibly some imaging of the optic nerve. Eye hypertension (which is completely different than high blood pressure) is fundamentally caused by too much production or too little drainage of intraocular fluid.
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