Gluacoma Drug Test

What is Glaucoma?

Glaucoma is an eye disease that is the result of high fluid pressure inside your eye. Left undetected and untreated, it can lead to blindness very rapidly and with no warning signs. Diagnosis is the first step to preserving your vision. Everyone is at risk for glaucoma from babies to senior citizens. 

Glaucoma is not curable, and the vision which is lost can never be regained. But with medication and/or surgery, it is possible to halt further loss of vision. Since glaucoma is a chronic condition, it must be monitored for life. ​Lowering intraocular pressure via various pharmaceuticals, both eye drops and oral, is the mainstay of glaucoma treatment today.

Treating Glaucoma

Six major classes of drugs are used to treat glaucoma, with each doctor having their own ‘favorite’ treatment. Every drug has a potentially different effect for each individual based on their particular genetic profile.  There is currently no test to scientifically select between these drugs, for an individual patient. Instead a doctor uses their own experience with the different drugs to select what they believe is the best drug/dose to use and then monitors the patient periodically for both effectiveness and side-effects. As a result, there are very high differences treatment responses, with overdosing leading to strong side-effects and underdosing leading to unchecked progression of glaucoma and worsening of the disease.

Glaucoma Drug Selection Test

Our Glaucoma Drug Selection Test tests your body's ability to metabolize the different glaucoma drugs. Within 2 weeks of taking the Glaucoma Drug Selection Genetic Test (needed only once in your lifetime) we will inform you and your eye-care health provider about your personal CYP450 metabolizing profile and which specific anti-glaucoma drugs are perfect for you to treat your glaucoma. The test will also list the drugs you should avoid since they may either cause severe side-effects or not work as designed.