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
If you are continuing to experience deterioration of your optic nerve in spite of having low eye pressure (such as normal tension glaucoma - also called low tension glaucoma), you may find this information very interesting. In fact, I think all glaucoma patients who have any progressing optic nerve damage...
Someone made the following comment in regard to my statement that stress increases my eye pressure. "I have to say I've had my pressures checked at the doctor's when I was extremely stressed out, only to get a low reading, and had the pressure checked when I was relaxed and gotten a high reading. Other...
For the last 26 days my averge daily IOP has been below 15 in my right eye. Given that my right eye tends to have higher IOP, I have been very happy with these numbers. Our plan was to continue this for 30 days (at least) before making any changes in my routine. However, today something unplanned happened...
I found this data interesting. It hints that I sometimes have eye pressure changes related to postural changes. In the chart below, you'll see that my eye pressure went from 17 to 23 to 17 very quickly after I went from lying down to standing (and then sitting). Here is how this data was collected: I...
Probably the most interesting thing about today's data is the series of measurements behind the IOP value at 19:20 (7:20 PM) for my right eye. The reported value below of 16.9 consists of 8 sequential measurements taken approximately 20 seconds apart. The values, in the order in which they were collected...