Early Detection Key for Glaucoma
Michelle Smith was having headaches, so she decided to get her eyes checked.
The Fayetteville woman said she was pregnant and didn’t want to take medication. She thought her vision could be causing the headaches.
“I remembered that my mom had glaucoma, and we had never really talked about the rest of us being tested,” she said.
Smith went to an eye doctor and learned she had high fluid pressure in her eye and was diagnosed with glaucoma. She was 39 and an early patient of a new treatment….
