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I stopped doing all inverted yoga postures a couple years ago. The plow (plough, halasana) posture used to be one of my favorites. When I first started self-tonometry some years ago I did the plow posture for just a few minutes, then sat up and took some intraocular pressure measurements. My intraocular...
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T his post is part of a series of articles intended to help you understand the relationship between your thoughts and your intraocular pressure. When I speak about the relationship between stress and eye pressure, many of us have a hard time making the connection -- because stress is a constant in most...
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This story has a positive end, but I did have a stressful situation yesterday in regards to my intraocular pressure. In the early afternoon I used the Tiolat iCare tonometer to measure my intraocular pressure, as I have been doing every day for a long time. I obtained seven intraocular pressure measurements...
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If you have glaucoma or elevated intraocular pressure, do you believe it is "in your genes?" If you believe glaucoma is entirely genetic, do you also believe you are stuck with glaucoma the rest of your life? The orthodox view is that glaucoma has a large genetic component and that if you develop...
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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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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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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...
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It is widely known that the yoga headstand posture can double intraocular pressure and therefore presents a great risk for glaucoma patients. It is my understanding that performing a headstand will double eye pressure for virtually everyone, even people with normal eyes and even young healthy people...
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One of the FitEyes.com members asked a question about the changes in intraocular pressure after sex in a comment to an earlier post on my blog about the potential relationship between masturbation and eye pressure . I'm going to give you an estimate of the intraocular pressure changes after sexual...
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Someone recently asked me where I keep my tonometer. When I started self-tonometry, I kept my tonometer in my office in a convenient location so that I could check my intraocular pressure while working without getting up from my desk. I could check my IOP while talking on the phone or using the computer...
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A friend of mine, who is a glaucoma suspect, has come up with a routine of eye exercises that reliably reduce his intraocular pressure. He visited my office a few months ago and demonstrated his eye exercises for me. We measured his intraocular pressure with a sophisticated tonometer (the Reichert Ocular...
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Dr. Michael Ashworth says, "The myths that masturbation leads to blindness, or causes you to grow hair on the palms of your hands, or will cause someone to be impotent later in life, or leads to mental illness, have all been debunked many times; but they seem to have a life of their own and crop...
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Millions of people around the world should be monitoring their eye pressure (intraocular pressure) at home, according to health organizations (such as FitEyes.com) that are issuing recommendations on what to do and how to do it. We feel the evidence is quite strong that home eye pressure monitoring leads...
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As you know from a couple recent posts on my blog, I have been recommending Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth webcast series with Oprah. I recommended a particular episode to a friend. I want to share his reply and my follow up response. He says, "It was interesting, but not really useful and I do believe...
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I received this comment in an email today: "It is very good that I started participating in this intraocular pressure monitoring project, because otherwise I would not know what is going on with my eye pressure. Now, it is even more evident for me that my eyes should undergo additional checks." Thanks...