... a few more bits of info ...

I was very lucky that my GP found an unusual structure or cupping to the optic nerve (I think that's how it was described) during a routine physical. I was in my late 30's. She checked my family history, and sent me off to an opthamologist. My pressure was borderline, and again, visual field tests showed no damage ... and that is the state I have maintained for years now. Don't know how long my luck will hold. I did develop a low tolerance for the first drops they put me on (foggy vision late in the days, thick film in the eye fluids) ... but the new ones seem OK. The new can change my eye color, eventually, though but that's OK.