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Glaucoma is an eye disease that can cause vision loss and blindness by damaging a nerve in the back of your eye called the optic nerve.

Symptom
Can have no symptoms, but people may experience:

Treatment
Medicines: Prescription eye drops are the most common treatment. They lower the pressure in your eye and prevent damage to your optic nerve.

Laser treatment: To lower your eye pressure, doctors can use lasers to help the fluid drain out of your eye. It’s a simple procedure that your doctor can do in the office.

Surgery: If medicines and laser treatment don’t work, your doctor might suggest surgery. There are several different types of surgery that can help the fluid drain out of your eye.

Magnitude
Loss of side (peripheral) vision, blind spots,Blindness

Cataracts are the most common cause of vision loss in the world. Cataracts are a medical condition in which the lens of the eye becomes opaque over time, resulting in blurred vision.

Early Symptoms

• Blurred vision
• Lights may seem brighter than they actually are.
• Colors might not seem as vibrant as they used to.

Possible Causes

• Aging
• Ultraviolet radiation from sunlight and other sources
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Obesity
• Smoking
• Prolonged use of corticosteroid medications
• Statin medicines used to reduce cholesterol

Treatment

A 15 minute cataract surgery at Rachel Eye Center is the most successful way to restore your vision. Schedule an appointment for a consultation to see if surgery is right for you.

Diabetic retinopathy is  an advanced stage of the diabetic disease process in which the blood vessels in the retina are damaged and leak fluid or blood.

Symptom

Treatment

Magnitude
Vitreous hemorrhage, Blindness.

Retinal detachment describes an emergency situation in which a thin layer of tissue (the retina) at the back of the eye pulls away from its normal position.

Symptom

• The sudden appearance of many floaters — tiny specks that seem to drift through your field of vision
• Flashes of light in one or both eyes (photopsia)
• Blurred vision
• Gradually reduced side (peripheral) vision
• A curtain-like shadow over your visual field

Treatment

Magnitude
Loss of vision

There are 6 muscles attached to the surface of each eye.
These muscles are responsible for moving your eyes in different directions. The aim of squint surgery is to put your eyes in a straighter position by moving some of these muscles, to strengthen or weaken their action.

Benefits of Squint Surgery

• Improved appearance (often)
• Increased peripheral (side) vision (often)
• Improved depth perception (sometimes)

Refractive errors are a type of vision problem that makes it hard to see clearly. They happen when the shape of your eye keeps light from focusing correctly on your retina (a light-sensitive layer of tissue in the back of your eye).

The main types of refractive errors are myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), presbyopia (loss of near vision with age), and astigmatism.

Symptom

The most common symptom is blurry vision. Other symptoms include:

• Double vision
• Hazy vision
• Seeing a glare or halo around bright lights
• Squinting
• Headaches
• Eye strain (when your eyes feel tired or sore)
• Trouble focusing when reading or looking at a computer
• Crossing of the eyes in children (esotropia)

Treatment

• Glasses
• Contacts
• Surgery

Magnitude
People with high degrees of myopia have a higher risk of retinal detachment which may require surgical repair.