One of the most common things I hear from my Chinese-speaking patients when discussing their glaucoma care is simple and direct: “Doc, I don’t feel anything is wrong. Do we really need to do anything?”
This happened again recently, when a patient appeared in my exam room 2 years after his previous visit. This time around, his eye pressure was almost doubled. I asked him whether he was using his glaucoma drops I previously prescribed; the answer was “sometimes, when I feel the discomfort.”
Glaucoma, especially in its early stages, is a disease that hides itself very