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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...
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Those of us monitoring our own intraocular pressure with professional tonometers are finding several common activities that reliably lower our eye pressure. Taking a shower is one of those activities. As surprising as it may be, the simple activity of taking a relaxing shower can lower intraocular pressure...
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Two nights ago my wife and I watched a movie on DVD called "I Am David." The movie has an overall customer review rating of about 4.5 stars out of 5 on Amazon -- but more importantly, it was highly recommended by the Spiritual Cinema Circle. My wife and I have decided to watch only uplifting or positive...
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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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Tonight, when I walked in from having dinner with friends from out of town, the first thing I did was check my intraocular pressure. It was 6.7 mmHg. This is a new record low for me. The next thing I did was check my email. I had exactly 1000 unread non-spam emails - that is a record high for me. So...
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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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White coat hypertension (or white coat syndrome) is a widely recognized blood pressure phenomenon. However, white coat ocular hypertension is not yet recognized by the medical community. One of the first reports of white coat ocular hypertension was published Tuesday, April 24, 2007 here on my blog in...
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I think this one image tells a great story. It presents new data and it presents it in a way we haven't seen before on my blog. The data span four days. At the beginning of the data series in the chart above, we see that my eye pressure is around 13. We see some variation due to time of day and other...
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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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I haven't blogged much about my daily eye pressure records lately. However, I am continuing to collect data and work with my medical team. As of right now we have recorded 16,785 intraocular pressure measurements over 205 days. In the last 47 days my eye pressure has consistently been under 15 during...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...