When I was at the hospital optometrist with my elderly mother, who has hypothyroidism and glaucoma and macular degeneration of the eyes, I asked the optometrist if she knew of a connection between undiagnosed or untreated thyroid disease and problems with eye pressure. She said, "Of course! They teach us about that at university." It seems that in her course everyone learned that there was a lot of untreated and undiagnosed hypothyroidism and that this could affect the eyes, because it could affect the fluid pressures in the eyes and the ears. It also seems that these optometrists don't try to communicate about this with GPs, who they know are often not aware of it. Two different silos. They are just aware there is a relationship between untreated or undiagnosed hypothyroidism (as well as the obvious eye problems of hyperthyroidism) and eye disease with pressure problems. However there are broader medical articles on the subject, e.g.
Thyroid Disease - body - Glaucoma Australia
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Thyroid over or under activity can be associated with problems in and around the eyes. ... Eye pressures can fluctuate widely, with maximal pressures reaching even into the 40 – 50 mm Hg range. Such pressures can lead to damage to the optic nerve fibres in precisely the same way as in any other glaucoma.
Hypothyroidism as a risk factor for open angle glaucoma - NCBI
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by S Wang - 2017 - Cited by 4 - Related articles
Oct 25, 2017 - Hypothyroidism results in a reduction of cellular metabolism and yields a wide range of overt and subclinical symptoms and signs[10]. It has been hypothesized that the deposition of mucopolysaccharides in the trabecular meshwork in patients with hypothyroidism might result in rising intraocular pressure (IOP).
Reversible increase of intraocular pressure in subclinical ...
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by M Centanni - 1997 - Cited by 50 - Related articles
Eur J Endocrinol. 1997 Jun;136(6):595-8. Reversible increase of intraocular pressure in subclinical hypothyroid patients. Centanni M(1), Cesareo R, Verallo O, ...