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Spare a few minutes to save your sight!
A violent pain, the feeling that your eyes are going to “pop out of your head”, a reduction in the quality of your vision, even though temporary, could well mean that you are suffering from ocular hypertension. This could be due to acute glaucoma and should be treated as an emergency.
It might also mean that you have an underlying vascular disease caused by diabetes or sudden high blood pressure. If so, there is a danger that it could lead to a permanent deterioration of your sight – glaucoma and diabetes are the two principal causes of acquired blindness.
There is also chronic glaucoma, which is more common than acute glaucoma. This often occurs without people realising. It too is due to excess intra-ocular pressure and causes optic nerve lesions. By the time these take the form of black holes in the field of vision it is already too late. This type of nerve lesion is irreversible. So, after the age of 40, you should get your eyes checked every year by an ophthalmologist. It doesn’t hurt and it will only take a few minutes. But those minutes could save your sight!
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