Thanks for your story. I hear what you are saying and I do plan to get a second opinion. Apparently here in the US there are some people who have had their glaucoma un-diagnosed.

But I have some confidence that its real. First, my doc wasn't eager to do it, she just suspected it at first, and we did some tests and waited for a while. But later, a followup visual field test did show some actual loss in one of my eyes, but not something I noticed.

The whole business with the drops is annoying, but its not unexpected. Still, that would be a business model worth disrupting.