I was back on Monday to repeat the visual field test because I’d missed a few spots the last time. This time I missed some again for each eye so I had brief retests of those missed instead of a complete repeat. I had Lego Lover with me so I was very grateful for the shorter time requirement. The result is there are two spots on each eye that I continue to miss. At the moment, this doesn’t really mean much of anything but I will be recalled in six months for a new test to check if there are any changes.

I suspect this is going to become a regular test for me. When I was in the library yesteterday, I was looking at a book about eye problems and it seems I have more risk factors for glaucoma than I realised. I already knew about the family history thing but apparently being near-sighted is also a risk factor. There is also the diabetes that puts me at higher risk. So it rather feels that glaucoma is a likelihood in my future. I was talking to a friend about this yesterday and was told that a mutual acquaintance, who is relatively young, has had it for many years now.

I had my follow up appointment today to do a visual field test to check for early signs of glaucoma (due to my family history).  I did this or something similar a few years ago but had forgotten how tedious it is. You basically just stare at a light in the center of the “field” and press a button whenever you see flashes of light in the peripheral area. It takes about five or more minutes to do the main test, plus another minute or two to do a wider field (without a corrective lens). I had missed a few so it was necessary to repeat the whole thing and compare results. It’s expected that a few will be missed but they want to check if the same ones are missed. I missed a few of the same ones second time around so I get to go back in a couple weeks and do it all again. Oh what joy! From what I understand, there’s not really much of a pattern to my missed ones so it’s probably not indicative of anything at this point. I’m not quite sure what happens should I have similar results next time.