“Does glaucoma come back after surgery?”

Unfortunately, glaucoma can return even after successful glaucoma surgery. There are many types of surgery for open-angle glaucoma, including laser trabeculectomy, trabeculectomy, tubes and stents. Please discuss your situation with a board-certified ophthalmology glaucoma specialist.

Hello, and thank you for your question. Glaucoma is a chronic disease, so glaucoma surgery won’t cure it, and thus it can’t really come back. If you have glaucoma, you will always have it. Medication(drops) and/or surgery, is to halt any further worsening or progression (ie vision loss) due to glaucoma. If you are at the point where surgery is needed, it is likely you are on multiple medications, your eye pressure is still too high and/or you are still having to worsen of glaucoma despite taking the drops, and surgery is necessary to stop any further damage.
Glaucoma surgery is generally quite safe with a good success rate. It should help to get your glaucoma under control so you can maintain good vision for a long time to come. Hope this helps. Hope all goes well. Take care,
Eric Downing MD

"Glaucoma" is not one disease but a number of different diseases. Kind of like asking if heart trouble comes back after surgery! Much more information is needed before this question can be answered.

Depends on the type of surgery. Best to ask your surgeon.

Alan J Franklin MD, PhD
Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery
Diagnostic And Medical Clinic
1720 Springhill Ave. Suite 300
Mobile, AL 36604
Cell: 251-776-4455

Yes it can