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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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Dave
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06-15-2008
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Filed under: Eye Pressure, Xalatan, Timoptic, lifestyle, Emotions, Western Medicine, Glaucoma, tonometer, WeightLifting, research, intraocular pressure research, vision
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Is it possible for a glaucoma patient to dramatically reduce their eye pressure without using additional glaucoma drugs or surgery? Six months ago, on 5-Nov-2006 I recorded the following intraocular pressure measurements. My glaucoma medication was Xalatan in each eye and 0.5% timolol maleate in my right...
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In my first true 24-hour eye pressure monitoring period, where supine eye pressure measurements were taken, I found out that my eye pressure is much higher at night than expected. I also found out that my blood pressure is much lower. That's a bad combination of pressures for the health of the optic...
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Dave
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01-30-2007
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Filed under: Eye Pressure, Xalatan, Timoptic, lifestyle, Emotions, Glaucoma, sleep, oral care, optic nerve, postural changes, stress
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A lot has changed in six months. For example, compare these eye pressure values: Date Left Right 8th to 9th of Jul-2006 18.0 25.8 17th to 31st of Dec-2006 13.4 13.9 This blog attempts to tell the story behind those numbers on a daily basis. For this one post I simply want to look at the eye pressure...
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Today's overall eye pressure averages are: Left 12.4; Right 13.1 (differential 0.7) These are some of my best eye pressure values ever. This is my 14th consecutive day on the new medication routine. On this routine, I use Xalatan in each eye and I use timolol maleate 0.25% in my right eye only without...
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The combination of diligent stress management along with using Xalatan and timolol maleate (0.25%) without waiting between eye drops has produced very good results over the last nine days. I will comment on the details in other posts, but in this post I want to show the overall daily eye pressure averages...
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I normally use Xalatan first, wait 10 minutes and then use Timoptic XE. [ UPDATE : Here is the bottom line. I found out that simply not waiting 10 minutes between drops (when using Xalatan and Timoptic) results in my IOP being 4.65 mm Hg lower on average. A reader pointed out to me in the comments that...
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Today was not a typical day! For one thing, we took 200 IOP measurements today! For another thing, my IOP values were not well controlled. It was like my emotions were directly connected to my IOP today, and my emotions were varied. Consequently, today's data shows a large range from the maximum value...
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Our discussions and planning for a new business venture have been getting progressively more intense during the last week. Today represents a peak in that "stress". However, I want to attempt to better define what I mean by stress. I have reduced the stress in my life by a significant amount since I...
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Today I had a telephone consultation with another member of my medical team, an ophthalmologist who is the current President of the Alternative Medicine association (since 1996) for his country. He has been in private practice since 1978. Here are the things he recommended for me: Eat lots of fresh fruit...
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Today I went to my newly selected ophthalmologist. He used his Goldman applanation tonometer to measure my IOP. Here is what he found: Left 34; Right 48 Just to be clear what I mean by that, my left eye IOP is 34mm Hg and right eye IOP is 48 mm Hg. My ophthalmologist said that 48 was the highest IOP...