The old man had a headache and thought it was cervical spondylosis, but it turned out to be glaucoma

Grandma Sun had a headache and initially thought it was caused by a cervical spine attack. After a series of examinations in the hospital, she found that she had a problem with her eyes.

Grandma Sun, 65 years old this year, has been experiencing blurred vision and headaches in the past week. Thinking it was caused by cervical spondylosis, she went to a physical therapy clinic for three physical treatments, but the headaches did not improve at all, and the vision in her right eye gradually became blurred. So she came to the Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University.

After examination, Grandma Sun's right eye vision was 0.1, and the left eye vision was 0.6. After Wu Zuohong, a member of the Glaucoma Group of the Hubei Ophthalmology Society and director of the Glaucoma Department of the Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University, found that Grandma Sun's right eye intraocular pressure was as high as 43mmgh. After a detailed examination, Grandma Sun was diagnosed with chronic angle-closure glaucoma and needed antihypertensive treatment.

"How can I get glaucoma without any symptoms?" Grandma Sun was very surprised to learn that she had glaucoma. "Chronic glaucoma is often easily ignored because its early symptoms are not obvious." Director Wu Zuohong introduced that chronic angle-closure glaucoma sometimes has small attacks, manifested as mild eye swelling and headache, blurred vision, and occasionally rainbow vision, which mostly occurs at night and will soon resolve on its own. These symptoms are not obvious and do not cause any special discomfort. It is difficult for patients to pay attention to them at first. Some patients only discover it when their central vision is damaged, but by then the lost vision cannot be recovered.

Director Wu Zuohong reminds that if you need to change your reading glasses frequently, have difficulty reading in the morning, or have a significant difference in vision between the two eyes, or feel that the range of your peripheral vision (actually your field of vision) is significantly reduced when you look straight ahead, or there is a significant difference between the two eyes, or your myopia is progressively worsening, or the elderly often feel headaches, nausea, or have a family history of glaucoma, etc., don't miss these seemingly irrelevant clues, as they may be the "telltale signs" of glaucoma.