With this post and the optometrist's/ophthalmologist's posts, I feel much batter about things. I will still go to the other doctor and see what she says.

Why not just leave it to the end of the consultation, and if it is not mentioned say "by the way, another doctor told me..." and see what the response is.

Hmm.  Not sure how you know so much about eye conditions if it's not your specialty.

Anyway, it seems I'm getting two kinds of advice.  You're saying to tell the second doctor what the first doctor said before the examination, and others are saying to wait until after the examination.

A risk factor is only a risk factor, not a disease. Ask your doctor how high the risk is - not very high from what the poster above suggests. Be aware of the symptoms in case something does develop - who wants to lose their eyesight - but don't become obsessed. If it is nothing to do with the reason you presented to the doctor in the first place then there is no need to be overly concerned. Being alive is a risk factor for dying - apparently in 100% of cases. Your risk of glaucoma would be lower than your risk of dying :-)

Are you kidding me? Medicine for the common cold??? That does not need medicine! We are a soft, over-medicalised society that has lost sight of what is the purpose of our existence.

Hmm.  Not sure how you know so much about eye conditions if it's not your specialty.

Anyway, it seems I'm getting two kinds of advice.  You're saying to tell the second doctor what the first doctor said before the examination, and others are saying to wait until after the examination.

"Common cold" is a waste basket non-diagnosis that covers a wide spectrum of mild-to-potentially-deadly disease.  Certainly a viral rhinitis does not need prescriptive antibiotics. On the other hand, acute bacterial sinusitis or otitis, often called "common cold," can lead to more serious problems, such as bacterial meningitis.

An anecdote—In my first month working the Emergency Room I saw a 26-year-old man with exactly such an acute bacterial sinusitis/otitis. It was so severe that I called the Otorhinolaryngologist ("Ear-Nose-Throat") specialist on call asking that he see the patient immediately. The specialist was abusive: "What medical school did you go to? Didn't you learn how to treat a common cold?" He raged on viciously, but I persisted. The specialist relented and saw the patient at midnight in his office. After he evaluated the patient he called me back and apologized for being abusive, agreeing that this was an unusually severe case.

Three nights later the 26-year-old returned to our E.R. by ambulance—DEAD! I wasn't on duty that night, but my best friend from internship was on that night. He saw my medical notes from the earlier visit and discovered that the 26-year-old never filled the prescription to continue the antibiotic that the specialist had given him at the initial care. The young man died because his "common cold" progressed to a fatal meningitis.

So, you can pontificate all you want about over-medicalization (it is true), but it may shock you to learn that there actually are cases where we doctors really do save lives. It's unclear to me if over-the-top skeptics dispensing vague snarky platitudes ever save anyone's life.

And the last time I checked my catechism, we are tenants in our Temples of the Holy Ghost and we have a duty to be diligent in self-care. That is indeed an essential part of our "purpose of our existence."  It is a chosen "purpose of my existence" to help people as best I can. On my way to work I pray a Rosary with the special intention of doing good and begging the Holy Ghost to guide my mind and my hands.