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True change is possible. I have done it and I am still doing it -- and it is responsible for my healing. Change brings about healing. Only change brings true healing - everything else covers up the source of the dis-ease. I want to share a short story about how this process of healing started for me...
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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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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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Welcome. If you are new to FitEyes.com, please read about how to revolutionize your glaucoma management here. Posture can have a profound effect on intraocular pressure for glaucoma patients. I have even found that lying down, which is something we all do almost every day, can elevate my intraocular...
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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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The IOP Querent
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Dave
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10-23-2007
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Filed under: lifestyle, Nutrition, Western Medicine, Glaucoma, tonometer, stress, Traditional Chinese Medicine, self-tonometry, love, thoughts, enlightenment
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Let us celebrate and enjoy everything that comes into our lives. Everything comes for a reason (and the reason is usually that, on some level, we have created all the situations in our life). So whether we are dealing with glaucoma or another health issue or another life issue, we should own it, claim...
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It is time to start Chapter Two of my blog. I believe there will be many more chapters. However, it feels like Chapter One has come to a close. Chapter One of my personal blog started with the idea that I would report my observations on the role of nutritional factors and activities on my own intraocular...
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Paresh posted an excellent message about dealing with glaucoma in the FitEyes.com forums. He asked seven great questions. I decided to do my best to respond to each question. I'm going to take them one at a time. Paresh's first question was , "what we can do in daily life to limit further damage to eyes...
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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...
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I've written several articles about the very clear relationship between my eye pressure and my stress levels . As I pointed out (in the comments to that article), the standard medical opinion is that stress does not affect eye pressure (intraocular pressure). For example, see "Glaucoma - Frequently Asked...
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This is my plan for overcoming glaucoma: embrace, evolve and exceed . I had to start embracing my glaucoma because to do otherwise implied aversion. Aversion is defined as "antipathy: a feeling of intense dislike." Obviously, we resist that which we dislike. And that which we resist persists - this is...
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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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The IOP Querent
by
Dave
on
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 little more than 60 days ago, I wrote a blog post and asked, " Does Stress Increase My Eye Pressure? " At that time I looked back and noted that my intraocular pressure had increased as my business situation had gotten more stressful. Since then, we have collected a lot more data. I think it will prove...
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Today I compared several eye pressure measurements on the basis of a normal measurement vs. a measurement after 1-2 minutes of relaxed breathing. I wanted to see if my eye pressure is lower when I do simple deep breathing as a form of relaxation. The deep breathing I did was very simple. I took normal...
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Today's Lesson: It requires both medication and lifestyle to fully control my IOP. Either one alone is not enough right now. This is the middle way . I would like to control my IOP without medication (or even without Timoptic), but attempting that right now would be too extreme. (I have a tendency to...