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Just saw this article in the NewHavenRegister.  Dr. Nils Loewen of yale Eye Center uses a treatment for advanced cases  The article states " The second procedure involves inserting a gold shunt to drain fluid and is only used in advanced cases.  Loewen said it"s somthing that i'm particularly excited about because we're are only one of six centers in the US to offer this. 

A small piece of gold is inserted under the eyelid, which " shunts fluid into a previously unutilized area, the supra-choroidal space"

On the cover of page B3

Today we made some progress in the denial area.  This condition ( high IOP and glaucoma ) is very difficult to accept.  The prospect of loosing my vision is bad enough.  Completely restructing our disposable income to make a tonometer purchace is not a given.  It seems to be drifting in that direction though. The tonometer is being considered only for the purpose of minimizing drugs and their side effects.  But will I be able to control all the variables?

For the second time this year my IOP hit 24.   I am 58 .  My mother went blind from glaucoma ( in the boston area no less ) in about 2002 at the age of 72.  She had been doing everything U Mass hospitals and associated doctors could come up with operations , stents, drugs  etc.   My younger brother lost significant vision in one eye at 43 ( about 2005).  I was hoping I had my dad's physiology but alas more evidence that I don't.  Although now at 90 my dad has macular degeneration ( wet ).  My results so far are no damage yet so technically it is not glaucoma.  Optomologists prescribes xalat