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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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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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I want to highlight three different approaches to performing home eye pressure monitoring (self-tonometry). Normally, I focus most of my attention in my blog on the approach I use. However, I thought it would be educational to contrast my approach with two other approaches. I'll discuss each one...
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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...
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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...
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Much of my focus has been on high-frequency monitoring of intraocular pressure with currently available technology. The current standard in ophthalmology practice seems to be monitoring intraocular pressure at a frequency of once every three to twelve months, depending on specific patient factors. In...
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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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In glaucoma@yahoogroups.com, Rachel wrote: I've done some research on the AT 550 also, and according to a European study, it has a very significant upward bias for thick corneas relative to the Goldmann (I happen to have a CCT of around 600)...while it does very well relative to the Goldmann for thin...
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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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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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Glaucoma Adapted from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services What is glaucoma? Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can damage the eye's optic nerve and result in vision loss and blindness. The most common forms of...
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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...
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Working with my medical team, I have recorded tens of thousands of eye pressure measurements with a variety of tonometers under a variety of conditions. This blog post describes a recent comparison we performed between the Reichert AT555 (a non-contact tonometer or NCT) we use for most eye pressure measurements...
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Glaucoma Today published an article titled " An Update on Tonometry ". It's interesting reading, and I highly recommend it. (In fact, I'm mirroring the pdf version of the article here .) However, the article leaves out some very important tonometers as well as critical information about maintaining the...
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Sep 15, 2006 By: Nancy Groves Ophthalmology Times While the Goldmann applanation tonometer is a very accurate instrument for measuring IOP compared with previous instruments, ophthalmologists now know that central corneal thickness (CCT) is much more variable than was believed when the instrument was...