Glaucoma Patients: Your Eye Pressure Number Is Not The Villain

Eye pressure is the number everyone remembers from an eye exam, but it’s not the whole glaucoma story. We dig into a question patients ask all the time: when is it actually important to lower intraocular pressure, and when is the bigger issue the health of the optic nerve itself? We use a simple picture to make it stick. Pressure is like water pushing on a basement wall, and the wall is your optic nerve. Lowering pressure can help, but strengthening and protecting the “wall” matters too. ...