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You're wise to be concerned about this if you have a glaucoma history in your family. Glaucoma is a genetic disease and is known as the silent thief of eyesight. It means the disease can lead to blindness. You may not notice that you actually have lost vision until the disease has progressed significantly. Glaucoma pressurizes the eyeball as a result of absorbing disruption of the liquid inside the eyeball. The pressured affects the optic nerves. What you have to do is see an ophthalmologist and have your pressured eyes examined using the tonometry measurement. Only then can you get appropriate therapy and treatment for your eye problem. Don't forget to help the eye doctor in diagnosing your complaint by telling every symptom you have. Common symptoms are pain in or behind the eye ball, headache with nausea and vomiting and visual disturbances with halos around lights ( like seeing a rainbow ). But remember that in some glaucoma cases, symptoms do not exist.