Glaucoma? Extreme pain in my right eye! Help!?

21 year old male.>For 4 years i have had extreme pain in my right eye, sore feeling in the eye that i have to press it to relieve the pain, headaches, sinus problems, temple tension. Ive been to an eye doctor and opticians but he didnt think it was glaucoma and and the other wasnt sure! However ive just learnt thet my grandfather has mild glaucoma. Can some one give me advice what is this? Its driving me crazy after 4 years and is effecting my life ??????????

Glaucoma rarely causes pain. In fact, most people with glaucoma have no symptoms at all. When you do have pain or discomfort in the eyes, that makes glaucoma much less likely.

If you have been to several eye doctors and they all say there is nothing wrong with your eye, then probably you have something else going on.

Young men can get "cluster headaches" which are severe headaches behind the eye. Usually when they occur, the eye turns red and the nose on the same side becomes congested. These headaches come in clusters and are not constant.

Another possiblity could be nerve pain (trigeminal neuralgia).

I would try to see a neurologist if eye doctors haven't come up with a diagnosis.

Also - about glaucoma. Glaucoma is an disease in which the optic nerve dies off slowly in a way that is called "cupping." You can have glaucoma with our without high eye pressure.

glaucoma is any condition that changes the interocular pressure of your eye and compresses the optic nerve. Every visit checks your interocular pressure If it was normal then by definition you can not have glaucoma.

If glaucoma is detected in the early stages, it is usually treated by eye drops.But when it is advanced both laser and conventional surgery are used to treat glaucoma depending on the type of glaucoma .More details and information at http://eye-care.in/glaucoma.html

Look at http://www.iblindness.org/

You'll see it says there, "More serious conditions and diseases of the eye such as cataract, glaucoma and others, often involve unnecessary tension that contributes to the problem, there have been many cases in which they have been benefited or eliminated."

This is because the method teaches you how to relax the muscular and nerve system to benefit the vision system, including relieving blindness (and other refractive errors and serious diseases of the eye, including cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachment, and macular degeneration)

It has a lot to do with neuroscience, in fact. I've had very good results with it.

There is a technique called palming used in this method, which is derived from ancient Tibetan yoga. Palming can help you with the pain in your eye. It's like this... find a table to sit at, put your elbows on the table (use cushioning if it helps you feel comfortable), lightly apply without any pressure your palms over your closed eyes in a way that blocks out as much light as possible, with the fingers of one hand overlapping the other at your forehead. Keep your eyes closed.

Relax yourself by imagining something very black like the center of a deep space black hole funnel to make the background (with your eyes closed) even blacker. Don't strain while doing this. Breathe deeply through your nose only. Do this about 5-10 minutes several times a day - like 6 times or more, however much you like.

It is important that your hands are warm when you're doing this. Try it the first time by soaking your hands in comfortably hot water for about 30 sec-1 min before you try palming, and you'll feel the heat from your hands enter your eyes and relax the eye muscles.

Palming works because the heat from the hands relaxes both the eye muscles and the optic nerve, which is an extension of the brain. The optic nerve, when relaxed, will also relax the brain. The ancient Tibetan Buddhists did this for their meditation sessions; but it should heal your eye's pain too.

I would suggest asking questions about what you can do for glaucoma at: http://www.iblindness.org/forum/

There's quite a history that goes with this method. It was covered up by some intellectual tyrannies of science, which is why it is often dismissed by optometrists who know little about their history. But my success speaks volumes...if you choose to believe me that is.