This is something else I want to share from my inbox. A friend, who I will keep anonymous, send me this comment in an email today: "I was mentioning self-tonometry to one of my parents. I said that, at the very best, we can hold off (or even reverse) loss for ever. And at worst, we can delay the...
With the recent website upgrade to FitEyes.com, I decided to send an email to all registered member. While writing the email I was inspired to discuss more of my experiences with self-tonometry, the process of monitoring my own eye pressure. After I wrote and sent the email, I realized that we have a...
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...
If you allow yourself to see things through the eyes of another, you will be rewarded by better sight . Just in case that statement sounds a little too quixotic, let me frame this in terms of intraocular pressure and glaucoma and tell you what myself and others are finding by carefully measuring our...
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...
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...
There are certainly a lot of glaucoma patients who could benefit from home eye pressure monitoring . I'm one of them. However, there are probably also some glaucoma patients for whom home eye pressure monitoring is not a good idea. Check with your doctor and don't make any decisions about purchasing...