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Originally Posted by 2porscheguy

It would appear that your wife has a very strong predilection towards developing POAG just based on her immediate family history so I would say best to start early here. Do you happen to know what her current IOP measures at now? Above 21 mmHG? What about her optic nerves...are they "markedly cupped"? How thin are her corneas?

Additionally, a visual field defect will not present itself until after a fairly substantial % of the optic nerve ganglions have already been affected. Once they are "dead" they won't come back no matter how aggressive the treatment so, again best to play it safe!

The missus says she's pretty sure the IOP was 19mmHg. She's not sure if they are cupped. She says that she has often been told that her optic nerve was unusually large, but she is now showing thin fibers. She's also not sure about the corneas.

She was curious what the purpose of the drops (Travatan) is. She thought the drops kept the pressure down, but it seems like her pressure isn't that high. Do the drops help the optic nerve or do something else?

Thanks for the info.