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Glaucoma Symptoms
My fiancée gets severe eye pain and headache after
coming out of the movie theatre.
What could it be?
Besides the noise and the violence in movies and
your company, it could be Glaucoma!
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What do you mean when you say
field of vision
decreases in glaucoma?
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Symptoms
These depend on the type of glaucoma.
Open angle glaucoma-
| Decrease in the field of vision. |
| Dull colours. These are
more difficult to be recognized by the individual, therefore remains
'dangerously silent' and undetected. |
| Family history is common. |
Angle closure glaucoma -
| Attacks of pain in the eye, redness, watering,
halos,
decrease vision. |
| Attacks come on especially when coming from darkness into
light, as when exiting from a movie theatre. There may be associated nausea and vomiting. |
In late stages, there is severe decrease in field of vision, and blindness
results.
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