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A couple days ago I wrote DNA Is Not Destiny, an article on FitEyes.com about epigenetics and how we can leverage that knowledge to create and maintain healthy vision. Today I found a related article I want to share with you. Here is an excerpt:

By Kevin McKeever, HealthDay Reporter, Copyright © 2008 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved. posted: 24 June 2008 04:14 pm ET

If you have glaucoma or elevated intraocular pressure, do you believe it is "in your genes?" If you believe glaucoma is entirely genetic, do you also believe you are stuck with glaucoma the rest of your life?

Web Pages That Suck, a fairly well-respected site that reviews web designs, named Association of International Glaucoma Societies as a shoe-in for worst designed web sites.

One reader commented, "Everything about this page makes me sick, from the colors to the
animation to hymn playing. Oh wait! that's not all, you can change the
music by clicking the giant ugly eye ball! This site is a joke."

Welcome to FitEyes.com! I am Dave and I founded FitEyes.com in 2006. 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 conducting cutting-edge research using high-frequency self-tonometry to gain new insights into intraocular pressure. You will not find this content on any other website. You will not find these insights into intraocular pressure anywhere else.

FitEyes.com is intended only for individuals under the care of a medical doctor! Furthermore, the information discussed here is only applicable to individuals participating in supervised research. See our disclaimer at the bottom of every page. The information we discuss on FitEyes.com can be powerful -- and that cuts both ways. If you were to misuse this information, you could damage your vision. Therefore, we restrict this information to only those who agree to work closely with their medical doctor prior to acting on any information found here. The information here is for experimental research under the supervision of a medical professional only!

FitEyes.com is a community site with many blogs and forums. Please register with us to gain access to all the content and to enjoy the full features of the website such as posting comments to blogs and asking questions in our forums. It is free and you will never receive spam from us. (You are notified by email when new content is published here. We never share your email address with others.) FitEyes.com does not exist to sell you a bunch of vitamin supplements or other pills, powders and potions with dubious claims.

FitEyes.com exists to educate you and your doctor, to empower you and to inspire you. In the articles on FitEyes.com we share our latest research insights and we discuss experimental ideas regarding how we successfully manage our own intraocular pressure. We invite you, working closely with your doctor, to take advantage of our new knowledge to improve your own visual health.

Here at FitEyes.com, you will learn amazing things about your eyes and your health!

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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, but to get us started I would like to give each method a name as shown below:

"This may be the beginning of the end of the GAT as the gold standard for measuring IOP." -- Etsuo Chihara, MD, PhD

This quote comes from the author of the following paper, published in Survey of Ophthalmology (Surv Ophthalmol. 2008 May-Jun;53(3):203-18): Assessment of true intraocular pressure: the gap between theory and practical data

Hello Members,

I have had my Reichert AT555 for two days now and taken taken quite a number of readings. Though my IOP does fluctuate, which I did understand is expected, I have seen much lower pressures than I thought I would! My opthalmologist's target pressure for me was 25 on Xalatan. I had frequent pressures of 30+ in his office but much lower numbers in my optometrists office (my friend). During the past two days I have seen only 1 average of 32 in 1 eye, and the majority of the time the IOP is mid 20s or lower (this is off medication). I have been off the Xalatan for the past month. Of course, now that I see my IOP can be even lower than his target of 25, I plan to work on obtaining this on a consistant basis (off medications).

I read this comment recently on FitEyes.com:

"When I was in the ophthalmologist's office my eye pressure was 30 mmHg, and when I was in my optometrist's office (who also happens to be a good friend and strongly believes in alternative, natural eye care), my eye pressure was 20 mmHg. The intraocular pressure readings were taken one day apart, at the same time in the morning."

I know several people in our self-tonometry research group who have had experiences very, very similar to this. I have seen it myself. Typically, this is due to stress. It is typically not, as skeptics like to immediately assume, due to errors in measurement or equipment.

Often, both patient and physician are very pleased if a combination of drugs and/or surgery reduce intraocular pressure by 10 mmHg. A change of this magnitude is highly significant.

My own experience, and the experience of many other people doing self-tonometry, is that our inner state (our thoughts and emotions) are capable of producing intraocular pressure changes in excess of 10 mmHg. In some ways this is a shocking finding because, A) in general, the field of ophthalmology does not recognize or admit that this is even possible -- that stress affects IOP, and B) the magnitude of the change is often similar to the changes produced by the most powerful treatments (drugs and surgery) available in allopathic medicine.

I went to the eye doctor to have an eye exam. Was a bit apprehensive my results would be higher than at home. Doctor proceeded to tell me I wouldn't do what you are doing, etc. Did not enjoy the visit at all!

9:00am- 10:30am At Doctor's office - Pressure 20/21 (GAT)

10:45 am At home after doctor visit 20/20.
2:42 pm At home working on computer 14.7/13.7
4:00pm Working on computer /ate a bannana 15.7/15.3
5:05pm After intense workout- 30 min workout 12.7/12.7

10:30pm 12.7/13

The following morning upon arising my pressure was higher at:

19.3/20.3

I am finding the following patterns with regards to my pressure: