What is the main problem?

[russell903]

I have mild ARMD both eyes and glaucoma in one eye.  The one eye with glaucoma has faded vision, and lesser color identification.  Amsler grid for both eyes okay, but glaucoma eye is grayer and less pronounced.  I have great difficulty reading with the 'bad' eye, with a spottyness across the field of vision.  Original diagnosis of this condition was that I had a cataract.  Then when glaucoma came up as the diagnosis, the cataract has always been considered mild-1 or 2 scleral.  Being highly myopic, wouldn't any form of cataract make my vision acuity more difficult?  I do see 20/30 witht he bad eye, and 20/20 with the good one.  But the bad eye shows more fading in the last four months.  Retina doctor says it's not macula, w/oct results to support, and he says maybe it's glaucoma.  glaucoma specialist says the optic nerve is unchanged over the last two years (term of my first alert about the disease)  What is the cause of faded vision-glaucoma, or mild ARMD or cataract?

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS]

There is no way I can tell from the information you provide. Based on what your physicians have told you it seems ARMD and glaucoma are the least likely. That leaves cataracts as the most likely cause.

JCH III MD