The mission of the Glaucoma Research Foundation is to cure glaucoma and restore vision through innovative research. Founded in 1978 in San Francisco, we fund glaucoma research worldwide and empower a global community affected by the second leading cause of blindness.
Researchers are still actively working on developing new treatments for glaucoma, treatments that do more than lower the pressure in the eye. Glaucoma is a complex disease so it takes many years to develop new treatments.
Ingredients: - 1 head of romaine lettuce, chopped - 1 cup of baby spinach - 1 cup of cherry tomatoes, halved - 1 large carrot, grated - 1/2 cup of sliced red bell pepper - 1/4 cup of sliced red onion - 1/4 cup of sliced almonds - 1/4 cup of crumbled feta cheese Dressing: - 1/4 cup of olive oil - 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar - 1 tablespoon of honey - 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard - Salt and pepper to taste Instructions: 1. In a large bowl, combine the chopped romaine lettuce and baby spinach. 2. Add the halved cherry tomatoes, grated carrot, sliced red bell pepper, and sliced red onion to the bowl. 3. In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, apple cider vinegar, honey, Dijon mustard, salt, and pepper to make the dressing. 4. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss to combine. 5. Top the salad with the sliced almonds and crumbled feta cheese. 6. Serve and enjoy!
I’m 27 and have been diagnosed with glucoma since birth and have to attend my eye appointments every 3 to 6 months or on a yearly basis depending on my eye pressure. I’ve had to have six lazer surgeries in my lifetime, four in my right eye and two in my left eye and I have to administer three different eye drops every day to keep my pressure stable.
I am had glaucoma for 18 years and I take eye drops everyday to control my pressures. I need to see my glaucoma specialist every 3 months to get my glaucoma monitored and make sure about my eye drops are working and that I'm taking them. A college student with glaucoma it's more challenging because I have to not only keep up with my homework but I have to make sure that I have refills on my eye drops and if I have to miss class for my glaucoma appointment I had to tell my professors that I will miss their class and have a doctor's note. Also on the college student with glaucoma eye get eye fatigue easily when I'm on the computer doing my homework so I have to rest my eyes for like 15 minutes and then I could go back to doing my homework. I also have to tell my professors what I need to accommodate my vision and I have to set up services with office of disabilities in the college to get extended time on my homework and test. I also have to take eye drops in between my classes since I take eye drops 4 times a day and Monday and Wednesday are my busiest days where I have a gap in between my classes to put my eye drops in. I use assistive technology and a white cane to help me what my vision that is is all lost. However I want to use my information to help college students who have glaucoma to get through college and treat glaucoma the same time.
My deaf son had his right eye removed at age 11, as a result of atrophy due to congenital glaucoma. Now 37, an intelligent but relatively unemployed father of two. He has great difficulty sleeping, instead playing computer games. Any suggestions of how to align his circadian rhythms. Your podcasts are fantastic, but inaccessible for deaf people. Thankyou Andrew
Hannah, this video means so much to me. I was born with cataracts and then developed glaucoma. I've never met anyone with it, but videos like this make me feel better. Thank you.
As a young woman with glaucoma, I want raise awareness of glaucoma in young children because I feel like people are mistaking glaucoma for an older person's disease only but that is not true because children are at risk for this as well. I am a prime example of getting pediatric glaucoma when I was nine and I went to school with some friends that were born with glaucoma.
I have a good friend born fully blind named Jessica. She taught me so much about courage and seeing people with "inner" eyes. I wish I was as brave bold and insightful as her.
@karun Currently lowering the pressure by 30% is the only treatment of glaucoma. I have glaucoma and my pressure was only 18 when diagnosed. But it affected me a lot. My doctor is now aiming to bring my pressure to 10 to avoid further damage. Keep hope, one day there will surely be a treatment to reverse the vision loss
Even if no treatment,can allways eat no sugar ,no refined foods ,no pasta ,eat instead,vegetables,fish,beans,legumes,fruit,etc everything needs nutrition,even eyes😘
Is there a way to avert dry macular degeneration. I have only one eye that can see and I love to read. I have just been diagnosed with dry macular degeneration. I am working with fasting and ketosis. Have you heard of anything I can do to keep the vision I now have?
I'm 25 and I have glaucoma. I've had it for 16 years and I'm on for eye drops right now for my pressures. I'm currently reading a book about glaucoma in Braille because I'm learning Braille in case glaucoma becomes Progressive. Reading a book about glaucoma in Braille is great knowledge for me on glaucoma and good practice with Braille. I'm always reading a lot about glaucoma and listening to videos about it and wanted to help other people with the eye condition.
Hannah's story is really similar to my own. I was also born with cataracts in one eye and never had much vision in that eye. When I was a teenager, I was diagnosed with glaucoma, which was a result from the cataract surgery. I remember having to take lots of eye drops, but I had a laser treatment a few years back, and (knock on wood) my intraocular pressure has been fine since then. I can also relate to Hannah's mother. Having this condition, I've often wondered if I should even have kids. I didn't want them to face the same struggles I did. I hope Hannah is doing well. :)
Just be calm, go to an opthalmologist, get the exams and if they give you medicine, eye drops, use it every day, every day as the doctor say it's very important to control the eye pressure with eye drops but take it every day. Greetings and good luck.
I know this is an old video but i would be interested in how this would be affected if the brain was missing the corpus callosum between the 2 halves of the brain.
Very encouraging, at least information is coming from a respected and known authority/institution. As much as I wish for the success of the research, sadly I already know it will be out of reach financially for us from poorer regions of the planet. But good job professor and all of the best.
I was diagnosed with glaucoma eight years ago, and now I am completely blind. I did all of the eye drop treatments, laser treatments, and took the necessary pills that they prescribed me. In the end, none of it worked in the disease overtook me and is now left me completely blind. I am only 37 years old. In all reality, what is it realistically the chance that we will be able to restore Vision once again? How do we restore the optic nerve? With a cure ever really truly be found? Although this video seems nice, it really does not leave me with much hope, just a lot of research, but no real date or expectancy on if, or even when there might be a cure to restore lost vision. Being that I have no functional Vision, this is very concerning to me. Very frustrating.
I'm so sorry to read about your condition. I was diagnosed with open angle glaucoma back in 2008. and thanks God I control my IOP and for now I'm quite OK. if you don't know about this, I recommend you to take a look at those videos, IT SEEMS IT WORKS !!! Tom Campbell is a serious scientist. please reply what you think of this and good luck buddy ! ru-vid.com?search_query=seeing+without+eyes www.matrixwissen.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1573:kids-with-superpowers&catid=300&lang=en&Itemid=403
Hi Amanda. Hello from Wales UK. I'm from London originally. I have Congenital Glaucoma. I'm aged 48 now. I was a Baby when I had my Goniotomy Surgeries done in 1971 in London. I do agree with you, that a Cure will be found through Medicine. Your life is inspirational.
My son was diagnosed at three days old we had his first surgery last week when he was three weeks old our next app is this week iop went up to 37 after surgery in his right eye but the doctor said it might be red bloods cells stuck in the pathway he opened so we will check it next week.. watching your video lets me know he has a fighting chance he is such a strong little boy
My mother is now blind both eyes for almost 2 years due to glaucoma. As a son of her its really hurt to see my mother in her situation. I am asking a help from you guys. Thank you
I related to ur struggles I mean u probably have it worse than me but my life is still a struggle cause I have a vision disability. Anyway. I’m almost 17. I was born with congenital cataracts in both eyes and I was also born with aniridia in both eyes I also have lazy eye lids so sometimes it’s kinda hard to tell if my eyes are open or not. Apparently also having I think aniridia or something else that I have makes ur brain work slower so I get some more time on things in school. Honestly I believe that is true. I also have slight nystagmus in both eyes (I had surgery for that tho in the summer between 7 and 8 grade I think). I played soccer when I was a young girl but quit because I thought it was or going to influence my grades badly (also I think because I didn’t think I was as good as everyone else). But soccer is such a fun sport and I want to start playing it again. Anyway. I haven’t really been open about the whole vision disability thing to my friends or like extended family. 1. U know when u have glasses and people are like hey can I try ur glasses. Most of the time I said ok whatever. Sometimes I laugh about it and I’m like ur going to regret it or something (cause u know I have a really intense prescription) well I give people my glasses and most of the time they are like wow ur blind or how do u see out of these. And basically I i pretty much don’t respond and be all nonchalant about it or just laugh it off. 2. When I’m really into something like a book or a video or a game I’ll like bring my face closer to it and half the time it’s subconscious so when I notice it I get really insecure about it and I back away (still being able to see it tho) I get insecure because some people make fun of me about it and call me blind or like grandma or something 3. If someone shows something to me on their phone most of the time I grab their phone so I can read it but if I can’t I literally just take like maybe 15 seconds to pretend read over it and then laugh or give the approximate hopeful correct response that they wanted from me (same thing happens if they point at something far away and I can’t see what it is sometimes I’ll fake things like that) 4 with the lazy eyelid thing I’ve had many occasions where someone is like ha u have ur eyes closed or how are u doing that with ur eyes closed and I just laugh it off and I’m like yup. There is several other things in my life that I can say but this comment is already very long and if u are reading thanks for reading and listening to what I have to say about my daily life
Hannah, I love your story. Thank you for putting it out there. I was born with glaucoma too. There was a time where I was scared to go to doctors appointments for fear of what my pressures would be, but now I'm not afraid. I have never met someone else that also has glaucoma, so it felt good to be able to know that I'm not the only one out there. Keep doing what you'e doing, you're changing the world one person at a time!
I have glaucoma too, and I have never met someone with it either. I completely understand what you mean by not knowing other people with it. It hurts so much, but videos like this makes it easier.