WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT (TM): GLAUCOMA: The Essential Treatments and Advances That Could Save Your Sight (What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About...(Paperback)) Paperback – October 1, 2004

I was diagnosed with glaucoma two years ago. This is a very helpful book in helping understand Glaucoma and deal with it.

Glaucoma runs in my family, and the blindness which results from it. I've been treating it for about 15 years. After a very scary visit to my specialist in August which left me frightened and in tears (and trust me, I don't scare easily) I decided it was time to educate myself so I'd know what questions to ask. Of all the books I researched, this looked like the best fit for me. I ordered the Kindle version the day of the doctor visit and soon read about the reason for pinching the tear ducts closed for a couple minutes after taking my drops. Made sense, even though I know several doctors say it doesn't matter. I thought, what could it hurt? Within 3 days, all redness, scratchiness, burning and irritation was gone, including the bitter aftertaste I got on my soft palate a few minutes after one of my 3x a day drops. Today, 4 months later, I had a followup exam and my doctor was blown away that my field of vision test results had reverted back to what they were 3 years ago and I had the lowest pressure readings in about 10 years. I know it must've made an impact, because 5 minutes after the exam, the discharging receptionist was still waiting for his closing comments to appear on the computer...she remarked "He must be writing a book about your examination!!" I just smiled and said "No doubt." There is much more to be learned from this readable, hope-filled book, but if for no other reason than the most amazing appointment I've had in a long, long time, I owe Dr. Harmon my heartfelt thanks.

Very informative with quite a lot of details and sometimes very confusing to help select the best treatment. I would like to see best treatments for treating my type of neovascular glaucoma, which surfaced three years (not one hundred days) following Retinal central vein occlusion treated with "as needed" avastin injuctions (5). Glaucoma was rapid onset with pain in one eye and an iop of 55. No diabetes. This was too much to be absorbed and I would like to see something broken down for cases like mine to enable me to select what type of laser treatment or a second tube-shunt to alleviate 42 iop.

Very informative

Dr. Harmon has included everything in this book that you should know if you have glaucoma, you are a glaucoma suspect, or you have glaucoma in your family. I have read a number of books on the subject and none are as inclusive as "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Glaucoma. Dr. Harmon studied at John Hopkins University, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Harmon is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Medical College of Cornell Univeristy New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Glaucoma Foundation.

I found this book very useful in a number of ways. While it has some highly technical areas, it is very good at explaining the many different forms of glaucoma. Understanding in simple terms what causes glaucoma, helped me more to understand the treatment. Here too it was helpful in providing tips on properly administering the eye drops. I can now go back to my eye doctor with more educated questions and move to a higher level in our discussions.

There are shockingly few books about Glaucoma. Why is that? This is one of the few I picked up when I was diagnosed and was first shocked to find out that there are many of us out there with Glaucoma who have normal eye pressure - a key component in diagnosis is high eye pressure. Therefore I wasn't referred to an ophthalmologist for further testing for years. There are no symptoms for open angle Glaucoma. There are symptoms for closed angle glaucoma, but the docs concluded the pain I was experiencing was related to something else - uh, yes Ms. W., your cancer must have metastasized. Thank goodness this was not the case.I have apparently both open angle and narrow angle glaucoma, pretty rare and the docs refused to listen to me when I gave them symptoms of narrow angle glaucoma, I was diagnosed with having only open angle. Because of this I lost considerable vision in one eye. Anyway, any book out there is worth reading. But this wasn't the best of the few.

I bought the wrong book instead of the next one which I bought and loved it for the info