A keen boxer has opened up about his health fight after he was left almost blind in one eye after overusing eye drops for 20 years.
Paul Awah, a sports coach who has lived in Dubai for 11 years, was prescribed steroid eye drops in his home country of Cameroon in his 20s. He continued to take the same medication until last year when a routine eye test diagnosed a rare case of steroid-induced glaucoma that required urgent medical intervention.
His sight had deteriorated to around 3 per cent in one eye, and he would have gone completely blind on his left side unless he opted for surgery. “I went surfing in Dubai, but when I got out of the water, I could feel a little heaviness and dizziness on my eye and it felt like there was a blockage there,” said Mr Awah, 39.
Paul's eye problems were caus
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