Dear Glaucoma Patient, Welcome to FitEyes.com ! I am Dave and I founded FitEyes.com two years ago. This site publishes original articles about intraocular pressure and vision health from participants in our unique self-tonometry research program. I and...
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I want to highlight three different approaches to performing home eye pressure monitoring (self-tonometry). Normally, I focus most of my attention in my blog on the approach I use. However, I thought it would be educational to contrast my approach with two other approaches. I'll discuss each one...
Over the last year I have been telling my friends and my wife that I'm finding enlightenment though high-frequency intraocular pressure research and self-tonometry. For a while my wife watched me monitor my intraocular pressure up to one hundred times a day (or even two hundred) and she thought I was...
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10-23-2007
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Below is another very nice email I received from a reader of FitEyes.com . I greatly appreciate his encouraging feedback. Dear David, Very recently I was diagnosed with Glaucoma. I am only in my early 30's. I was deeply shocked by this diagnosis, it was so unexpected... It is also so scary... Then, I...
Today the following email arrived in my inbox via a post to a glaucoma support group. David: Greetings! I read your very interesting blog this morning. Here are a couple of questions: What exactly is your background? Your blog says that you are the director of a research organization. Are you a physician...
I thought it might be interesting to do a series of profiles on top glaucoma specialists around the world. I was inspired to start this because of my recent visit with Dr. Robert Ritch. He is certainly one of the top glaucoma specialists in the world from a variety of points of view. He is highly respected...
Due to the optic nerve damage I have already suffered, I must control my intraocular pressure (IOP) very well -- and allopathic medicine has the most effective tools for doing so. Of course, I'll still seek out any knowledge about lifestyle factors that could benefit glaucoma and lower my IOP. Like so...
Today was my first visit with a physician in my area who practices conventional and holistic medicine. My main reason for seeing her was to see if she had any advice regarding alternative treatments for glaucoma. She gave me a complete physical and sent me to the lab for blood and urine profiles. She...