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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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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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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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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 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'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...
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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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Today's values seem to show that when I stop thinking about business (or other financial issues), my IOP is lower. Today's overall averages are: Left 15.2; Right 15.2 (differential 0) The differential is going in the opposite direction from what I have seen in the past. Normally, it increases slightly...
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Today my eye pressure was about perfect. Here are the overall averages: Left 15.1; Right 13.7 (differential -1.4) I couldn't ask for much more. These are some of the best numbers I've seen. My right eye's IOP, which is usually the higher (and consequently, my right eye has greater nerve damage and more...
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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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When I started this IOP data collection project, I expected stress management tools like meditation and pranayama (yoga breathing exercises) to lower my IOP. Immediately after starting the project, I was surprised to find that my IOP was much higher after meditation when we measured it. Those initial...