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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 certain other members of our research group are...
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Below is part of a very interesting email a reader sent me a little while ago. I asked for his permission to share some of it here. I hope this person eventually finds time to start a blog on FitEyes.com or share more of his experiences. I could learn a lot from him, and I suspect many other people would...
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Is it possible for a glaucoma patient to dramatically reduce their eye pressure without using additional glaucoma drugs or surgery? Six months ago, on 5-Nov-2006 I recorded the following intraocular pressure measurements. My glaucoma medication was Xalatan in each eye and 0.5% timolol maleate in my right...
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If you use ocular beta blockers such as timolol for glaucoma, consider using coenzyme Q10 supplements. Even with careful use (including punctual occlusion), some glaucoma patients experience serious cardiovascular side effects from timolol. However, several studies have found that coenzyme Q10 can improve...
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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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A lot has changed in six months. For example, compare these eye pressure values: Date Left Right 8th to 9th of Jul-2006 18.0 25.8 17th to 31st of Dec-2006 13.4 13.9 This blog attempts to tell the story behind those numbers on a daily basis. For this one post I simply want to look at the eye pressure...
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Today's overall eye pressure averages are: Left 12.4; Right 13.1 (differential 0.7) These are some of my best eye pressure values ever. This is my 14th consecutive day on the new medication routine. On this routine, I use Xalatan in each eye and I use timolol maleate 0.25% in my right eye only without...
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The combination of diligent stress management along with using Xalatan and timolol maleate (0.25%) without waiting between eye drops has produced very good results over the last nine days. I will comment on the details in other posts, but in this post I want to show the overall daily eye pressure averages...
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I normally use Xalatan first, wait 10 minutes and then use Timoptic XE. [ UPDATE : Here is the bottom line. I found out that simply not waiting 10 minutes between drops (when using Xalatan and Timoptic) results in my IOP being 4.65 mm Hg lower on average. A reader pointed out to me in the comments that...
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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...