What DOES glaucoma look like?
Can you take the 2-minute challenge? Wear glaucoma simulation glasses for just two minutes of your daily routine. This could be as you walk the dog, make a sandwich or scroll on your phone. See what glaucoma looks like.
Glaucoma is different for everyone. For some, it’s a bumped shoulder, chipping cups, or remembering eye drops every single day.
Only an eye health check will tell you that you have glaucoma. Get one today at your local optometrist.
It could look like dirty dishes or chipping cups and plates.
It could look like hitting the side of your garage with your car.
It could look like taking eye drops every day for the rest of your life.
It could look like losing some confidence to drive at night time.
It could look like avoiding glare with sunglasses and a cap.
It could look like blank shop signs or pulling out the wrong weeds.
Request your FREE
2-minute challenge pack
Your challenge pack consists of three pairs of glaucoma simulation glasses. They represent early-stage, moderate-stage and advanced glaucoma. Use them to better understand what glaucoma looks like. Please allow 3-5 days for delivery of your challenge packs via post.
Special thanks to Aotearoa Gaming Trust for their support of glaucoma awareness and education by funding over three thousand pairs of glaucoma simulation glasses.
3 ways you can help
- Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues aged 40+ to head to their local optometrist for an eye health check.
If they say, “I can see fine”, then you must reply with, “Glaucoma can steal your sight without your knowledge because it often has no symptoms before diagnosis”. If you or family members have glaucoma, then add, “You are at a significantly greater risk of developing glaucoma because it’s in our family”.
- Request a challenge pack and share your experience of what glaucoma looks like with your friends, family and colleagues. We’d love to hear how you go too! Email or phone us with your stories.
If you want to take your challenge to the next level, create a fundraising page to support Glaucoma NZ, organising a fun event with friends and family. Download a fun BINGO card here or a list of everyday tasks for the challenge here.
- Donate now to enable New Zealand-based glaucoma research, provide support for New Zealanders affected by glaucoma and to educate them about glaucoma.