How This Site Can Help
MyGlaucomaCare.com would like to be your resource for glaucoma information on the Internet. Your eye-care provider plays a crucial role in monitoring glaucoma. However, the success of the treatment mainly rests on your shoulders. Medications must be used correctly. Follow up care needs to be completed in a timely fashion. Your understanding about glaucoma, how it is monitored, and the medications that you may be using will help you to be a more educated patient and help you to enjoy a more meaningful role in your care. Our step-by-step guide to glaucoma, click here to enter, is designed to give you a better understanding of the disease of glaucoma, its treatment, and the monitoring of glaucoma for progression.
Maintain Your Records
Glaucoma is a chronic disease, which will require treatment for many years. The goal of glaucoma monitoring is to regularly look for signs of progressive or continued nerve damage to determine whether your treatment is effective. Because nerve damage from glaucoma occurs slowly, it may take several years for your doctor to know whether progressive nerve injury is developing. Because of the continuously changing health insurance market, it is uncommon for a patient to stay with one physician for more than three to five years. Health records are only required to be maintained by your doctor for five-to-seven years and can then be legally destroyed. By maintaining your own set of health records you may provide meaningful information to help future doctors decide whether your glaucoma has been cared for appropriately and whether there is ongoing progression of glaucoma damage. Myglaucomacare.com offers two options for maintaining your glaucoma health record. Option 1 (click here for more details) provides a short record of your eye pressure and medication use at each doctor’s visit. By entering and maintaining this information, you and your future doctors will easily be able to determine the course of treatment and your response to various medications over time. This section is free for all registered members and only requires that you enter your personal information after each doctor’s visit. Option 2: The Internet can be an excellent resource to archive your personal medical records. By maintaining your own set of glaucoma records, including copies of all visual fields and other glaucoma tests, you may provide useful information for future doctors caring for your glaucoma. For more information click here.
Online Consultation
Depending on their training and background, various doctors have different approaches to the management of glaucoma. A glaucoma specialist typically devotes a large part of their practice to the care of glaucoma patients. Do you have questions regarding the diagnosis and treatment of your glaucoma that you would like to have answered by a glaucoma specialist online? Myglaucomacare.com offers a comprehensive second opinion based on a thorough review of your medical history. Click here for more details.
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