Glaucoma Suspect at 35. Kind of Freaking out!

There is something they can do!   They can put you on eye drops to lower the pressure.    My pressue was found to be about 27 when I had my first eye test in 1990!   My age at that time was 46.     They just kept me under obesrvation for 7 years, and when pressure went over 30, they put me on eye drops, but said that I still didn't have galucoma.     Now, 28 years later, I am still on eye drops and can still see OK.   They still say I haven't got glaucoma, just interocular pressure.  -  

All they can do is monitor you as you have normal pressures they may not be terribly concerned ensure you have an OCT every year or so until they are sure you have glucamateous damage or raised IOP I doubt they will treat. The main thing is that it's monitored my optician failed to notice damage at 29 years of age by the time I was 34 and diagnosed I had advanced loss of vision in one of my eyes.

Hi. As Alcantara says above, if you have high eye pressure then they will give you eye driops. But the important thing is not to try and diagnose this yourself via information on the internet. You need to be under the care of a qualified ophthalmologist who will do the eye pressure and other tests and prescribe drops for you as needed. They may say that drops are not needed yet but they will keep you 'under observation'. Or they might put you on drops to keep the eye pressure down and to prevent the glaucoma from developing.

I was put on drops initially to keep my eye pressure down and the ophthalmologist sometimes said that they were not really needed but that she wanted to err on the side of caution. Unfortunately due to other factors it turned into glaucoma but because I was already 'in the system' of surveillance they picked it up early on and were able to adjust the eye drops accordingly.

Being a glaucoma suspect might just mean that you have higher eye pressure than ideal. Keep going to the 6 monthly appointments. Try to only read stuff on the internet from reliable / responsible sources. 

All the best

May,

My first eye test in 1990 was because my left eye hd gone slightly blurred and I thought it was just that I needed reading glasses.   That turned out to be the reason, and the specialist said the pressure could have been high for ages.     But even so, as I said, I was not put on drops for seven years.     Over the years, the pressure has gone up and down, once as high as 34, but all they did was change the drops.     I didn't have any symptons that I could put down to pressure, although I was allergic to Simbrinza eyedrops that made my eyes itch, go red, a sore.    Within 24 hours if changing eyedrops, I was OK again.   I worried about it all at first, but as the years passed, I just carried on with the drops and it faded into the background of my mind.    Lots of people here have had similar experiences.     Strangely enough, the eye with the highest pressure sees perfectly, and I can even read without glasses in the right eye.    The left one, has normal (for me) pressure, but needs reading glasses to sharpen things up.