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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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Dave
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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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It is widely known that the yoga headstand posture can double intraocular pressure and therefore presents a great risk for glaucoma patients. It is my understanding that performing a headstand will double eye pressure for virtually everyone, even people with normal eyes and even young healthy people...
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For those of you who have been thinking about joining our self-tonometry program and purchasing a tonometer, I want to let you know that we can help you purchase your tonometer. However, I would like to take this opportunity to clarify our policy on selling tonometers. We are not a typical equipment...
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Someone recently asked me where I keep my tonometer. When I started self-tonometry, I kept my tonometer in my office in a convenient location so that I could check my intraocular pressure while working without getting up from my desk. I could check my IOP while talking on the phone or using the computer...
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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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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...
Posted to
The IOP Querent
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Dave
on
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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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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A new theory (still being researched and discussed) is that glaucoma causes a remodeling of the cornea that results in lower corneal hysteresis (CH). However, regardless of the causative mechanism, low corneal hysteresis has been correlated with glaucoma progression in early research. I believe the research...
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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 have strong evidence that I exhibit a white coat syndrome for intraocular pressure (eye pressure). First, let me provide some background on white coat syndrome. White coat hypertension (or white coat syndrome) is defined as a situation where patients have high blood pressure in the doctor's office...