Glad things worked out well.
JCH III MD
I want to thank everone for there support and advice.
it turns out i have whats called 'physiological optic disk cupping' and that its perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.
He checked my eyes and said they are healthy and good. I have myopia in my right eye but he said i do not need glasses as it isn't that bad but i can wear them if i want. I chose to have the glasses to use for study.
I asked him if he was qualified and able to check for gluacoma and he said yes, he has diagnosed many people.
So i am so releaved!
Due to the scare and the worries i have been put through the past few days (i was crying for about 6 hours non stop and felt like topping myself) i am going to contribute to the blind community now. I am a web developer and programmer and from this day forward i am putting every effor possible into helping change the internet so that its suitable for people with vision problems.
I hope one day they find a way to regenerate nerves so that people with gluacoma can have a chance at sight again.
Thank you so much!
Optician in UK and Canada same as US. In UK they use ophthalmologic tech for optometrist sometimes.
Might I add that if a glaucoma specialist is available, it would be worthwhile as well. Go as far as you have to to get the most accuate diagnosis as you can. Stay on top of it now and it may be a slight inconvenience. Wait and do nothing like I did, and the results could be worse.
Sorry, I am yet to figure out what an "optician" in the UK does. My current understanding is the an optician in UK is an optometrist. If I am mistaken please correct me. Does an UK optician have a MD after their name?
JCH IIIMD
We have a family history of myopic.
I have a lazy eye which is myopic, so do 6 other people in our family.
Yes where do you live? As nancy grace said in the USA an optician makes glasses and that's it. You need an ophthalmologist a person that has been to medical school and has a MD degree and an additional 3-4 years of training in eye surgery and disease.
Most optic nerves are cupped. "Some as a normal variation have large cups without glaucoma. They look different than the large cups assocaited with glaucoma. The cup is less than 40% of the diameter of the optic nerve in most people. Anything over 40% needs an Eye MD to look at it to see if special tests for glaucoma are needed.
Cups are larger in myopic people and is often a famial characteristic
JCH III MD
Where are you? In the US, UK and Canada, an Optician makes eye glasses. They say opt and Ophth because they have both, not because the two are the same. The word Ophthalmologist can mislead in Great Britain, because they have Ophthalmology tecnicians who are really optometrists.
To make it clear, above all, you need an eye MD, a doctor with 4 years of medical school, an internship and a residency in ophthalmology.
Also if the doctor was that concerned would he have not passed me onto on MD Eye Specialist? He just said that my regular optician would spot if there was any problems.
The opticians i go to are also ophthalmologists. Its says in their leaflet 'Opticians and Ophthalmologists'
Don't see an optician, don't see an optometrist. See an ophthalmologist, or maybe an MD eye specialist.
The doctors here will tell you which of the last two MDs you need to see.