Hello, Just thought I'd put this out there.. I am very farsighted in both eyes and my left eye is a very lazy eye (meaning very weak vision). I had a new implant in my left eye about 2 years ago but it didn't do much to help the vision in my lazy left eye much. But because of the new lens implant in my left eye my Narrow Angle is not an issue anymore. The fluids are moving as they should now. About my right eye .... I'm 66 and the doctor wants me to wait a little longer before I getting a new implant lens in my right eye. It's my only good eye so she want me to wait as long as I can before messing with my only good eye. But she said I needed to have the laser surgery done because of my Narrow Angle problem. So.... Last week I had the laser treatment done for Narrow Angle in my right eye. The laser surgery is not painful but later after arriving home the numbing drops wore off and I was in discomfort for about 16 hours. The eye felt irritated and burned a little like when you have something in your eye or a scratch on you cornea. I put the drops in as prescribed and the next morning I was ok again, it felt much better. The laser felt like a little pinch in the eye, not very painful at all. I was lasered two times. I'm on a 3-4 month check up now because the Doctor said I'm still at risk for an attack. I understand that some people don't feel any pain at all. I think this surgery is worth having and the discomfort is was not that bad. The Doctor said If I feel any pain whatsoever I should call the office immediately, Do Not Go to a Hospital Emergency Room.

I was diagnosed with high IOP 30 years ago. Since then, I've: visited my opthalmologist every 3-4 months, spent a full day every year or so at one of the country's best eye hospitals having a battery of tests, been on every class of glaucoma med available, and consulted with one of the country's top glaucoma specialists. My pressures are always in the 25-29 range. The meds made no difference to my readings. And yet, in all those years, I've had no damage to my optic nerve--no actual symptoms of glaucoma at all. Then, about 4-5 years ago, on one of my annual visits to the glaucoma lab at the hosptial, the tech doing my tests asked if she could measure my corneal thickness. She'd just been trained on the machine the day before and had yet to use it solo on a patient. Before that time, it wason't common to test a glaucoma suspect's corneal thickness. Well, voila! My corneas are so thick that it's impossible for the drs to get an accurate reading with their instruments. My thick corneas account for my high--but normal for me--pressure readings. My dd also has thick corneas--which she's very thankful for at the moment because she's having Lasik in about a month--and it's much more successful on people with thick corneas. As a matter of fact, her surgeon (who is also her boss) is trying to get me in--he wants to do my thick corneas as well. If you're asking for advice. First thing I'd recommend--if you haven't yet had it done--is to have your opthalmologist measure your cornea. A thicker or thinner than average cornea can really skew the pressure results. Then, educate yourself. Learn about glaucoma--the risks, the effect it will have on your eyes, the potential treatments, etc. I'd recommend that you go to a dr. who is a glaucoma specialist, associated with a very, very good eye hospital. Opthalmologists tend to have different specialties. When my original dr. retired a few years ago, he recommended a young woman dr. who is an expert in the field of glaucoma--I've been very pleased with her. You see, even though I don't yet have that disease, I consider it vital to go to a glaucoma specialist BECAUSE in my case, if I ever do develop it, it's going to be extremely hard to diagnose. Glaucoma, if you do have it, is very treatable in most cases, if caught early. Most cases will respond to one or the other of the drops. If not, surgery is an option. But it's important to understand that glaucoma rarely has any symptoms in it's early stages, it's not until you've suffered irreversible vision loss that you'll notice it. I urge all my friends and family to have regular check-ups with and OPTHALMOLOGIST (not an optometrist--optometrists aren't medical drs) to keep an eye on the health of their eyes, whether or not they need glasses. If you want to find more info on glaucoma and other eye conditions, the Wills Eye Hospital site is a great resource. Don't know if they still have this, but they used to offer online chatting with some of their glaucoma drs at certain times during the week.

Oh my. I agree with other posters-eyes are tricky. I would look for a doggie Opthalmologist. Pekes are prone to eye problems. The fact that he's 15 he may have vision problems without you knowing it. Dogs are very good at manuevering themselves with limited vision. One of my Shih Tzus (she's deceased) had eye problems, after her retina detached (at 12. She lived to be 18). She was allergic to many of the meds administered to her eyes. This is why sometimes the dog's eye looks worse after applying meds, or it's the wrong antibiotic for the particular bacteria that settles in the eyes. At one point we realized that the lubricant (Lanolin) in the eye meds made her eyes worse. I had to get meds from Canada. It was a real struggle. At 15 yo her eye was removed, as it became angry after 3 years after the retinal detachment. She did great with one eye, and no more pain. I am not familiar with NFU puffer. Is that an inhaler? Is there small print or writing in parenthesis that says the ingredients in the NFU puffer? If your dog has an ulcer sometimes vets sew the eye up to give it a rest. I just hope that your dog was not given a steroid INTO the eye while the eye was developing an ulcer....HUGE problem. How did he cut up his eye? Rubbing it? WHY was he rubbing it? Glaucoma, retinal detachment, allergies, ulcer forming...lots of possibilities. I hope he's ok. Let us know what happens.

It's so great to hear that you got her to the vet as soon as you did and that they were able to save her eye and her sight! Kita is one lucky dog! One can't imagine the pain some animals go thru when they have eye problems so I hope your story helps another pet (or any other animal) in the future.