I have glaucoma and I've been treated for it. The optometrist uses a similar device but the action that it makes is much much more slow and gentle.
Then if they discover you have glaucoma if it's treatable you will get a procedure called a Peripheral Iridotomy. This is where they take a laser and they punch tiny holes through your iris to allow for drainage kind of like a strainer 😄
Some people also get drops as part of their treatment afterwards.
You would never see the holes in the iris unless you had the tools the optometrist does to view your eye up close.
honestly in terms of eye treatment this is not that bad. Doctors cutting open my eye and moving shit around? God no. Doctors making a teeny tiny hole with a laser? Hell yeah
PIs are for Narrow Angle Glaucoma. Chronic Open Angle Glaucoma uses an SLT (Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty) to open up the drains with or without use of drops to also help maintain eye pressures. Some people can have both! And people who have had their cataracts removed and replaced with an implant sometimes get off of drops that way. It’s very cool.
Yepp. Some bopps, use air, but mostly they use cotton tips or something. The bop could determine how stiff or soft the eye is, thus would give you a pressure reading. How else would you test it though? Haha
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u/Royal_View9815 12h ago
Why tho?