You are here

Home » Community » Blogs

dave's blog

What Is The Best We Can Hope For?

Submitted by dave on Mon, 06/02/2008 - 2:33pm

 This is something else I want to share from my inbox. A friend, who I will keep anonymous, send me this comment in an email today:

"I was mentioning self-tonometry to one of my parents. I said that, at the very best, we can hold off (or even reverse) loss for ever. And at worst, we can delay the trajectory of the disease by a decade or more. Would you agree?"

Here is my reply:

Filed Under (tags):

Eye Pressure Research -- and Sexual Energy

Submitted by dave on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 2:00pm

One of the FitEyes.com members asked a question about the changes in intraocular pressure after sex in a comment to an earlier post on my blog about the potential relationship between masturbation and eye pressure. I'm going to give you an estimate of the intraocular pressure changes after sexual activity off the top of my head.

Filed Under (tags):

My Personal Self-Tonometry Setup

Submitted by dave on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 12:54pm

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, for example. At that time stress was one of my main research focuses and work was my main source of stress. Eventually, I achieved excellent management of my intraocular pressure during the work day and I began looking at my diurnal IOP curve more closely.

Filed Under (tags):

Your new (OLD) home page at FitEyes.com

Submitted by dave on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 5:36pm

UPDATE: It is now April 2009 and FitEyes.com has once again upgraded its software platform. We moved from Community Server on Windows to Drupal running on Ubuntu Linux! That was a nice upgrade. :)

I'm keeping this old message around so we can see how the site used to look. Below is the original (now old) message from March 2008:

Filed Under (tags):

FitEyes.com Blog Feature - Main Blog Page Help Tips

Submitted by dave on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 1:11am

Blogs Main Page Overview

The primary function of the Blogs main page is to provide you with access to all of the blog posts that have been published in the FitEyes.com community. But FitEyes.com also allows you to manipulate how blog content displays on the main page.

 

For example, you have several blog sorting options:

Filed Under (tags):

Having trouble logging in to the new FitEyes.com?

Submitted by dave on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 10:44pm

 

After the website upgrade today, you may need to delete the cookies in your browser if you have any trouble logging in. You can either delete all cookies or just the cookies from FitEyes.com.

In Firefox, you can open Preferences, go to the Privacy tab, click the Show Cookies button, and select the cookies to delete or you can remove all cookies.

Internet Explorer is probably very similar, although I don't use it so I can't offer exact steps. (I run Ubuntu Linux.)

 

Filed Under (tags):

Leaving comments - please log in to leave feedback

Submitted by dave on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 7:57pm

Thank you for all the comments you are leaving here at FitEyes.com!

For anyone new to the site, you should register before you leave comments. Everyone must be logged in to leave comments. (This is to prevent spam.)

I encourage everyone to comment on each article you read on this site. We all look forward to hearing your opinions.

If you have any difficulty leaving feedback, contact me (or just send an email to dave using this domain name).

Filed Under (tags):

Re: optic nerve death

Submitted by dave on Mon, 05/26/2008 - 1:26pm

  andrea:


When I have asthma attacks the ER admits me if [my oximetry readings] dip below 85 at all. I do go under 90% which could be one of times when the hemoglobin is unable to furnish plenty of oxygen. Maybe better management of my asthma would help.

 

I have taken an interest in monitoring oximetry while doing other IOP research, including while doing pranayama, Serene Impulse and many of the other techniques I'm testing. I don't have anything extremely interesting to report yet, however. UPDATE: see Eye Pressure Miracle.

Filed Under (tags):

Ocufors - Is it Ayurvedic?

Submitted by dave on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 2:02pm

In 2006 I wrote about the news that Ocufors, a plant-based pharmaceutical product for glaucoma, had received regulatory approval from India's equivalent of the US FDA (the Drugs Controller General of India - DCGI).

Ocufors is a natural, plant-derived product that has been found to be 30% more effective at reducing intraocular pressure than existing glaucoma drugs, according to its manufacturer.

Filed Under (tags):

Ancient Ayurvedic Herb Lowers Intraocular Pressure by Reducing Aqueous Inflow

Submitted by dave on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 1:45pm

Makandi (Coleus forskholii) is one of the most broadly useful herbs of Ayurveda, but until recently it was not well-known in the West. So wide-ranging are its therapeutic applications that it has been called a pharmacopaea in a single plant.

Filed Under (tags):

Gain Better Eyesight by Expanding Your Heart

Submitted by dave on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 11:16am

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 eye pressure with professional quality tonometers.

Filed Under (tags):

Does Masturbation Cause Blindness?

Submitted by dave on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 5:36pm

Dr. Michael Ashworth says, "The myths that masturbation leads to blindness, or causes you to grow hair on the palms of your hands, or will cause someone to be impotent later in life, or leads to mental illness, have all been debunked many times; but they seem to have a life of their own and crop up again and again."

Filed Under (tags):

Pages

Subscribe to FitEyes.com RSS Feed Subscribe to RSS - dave's blog