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I will be discussing this in more detail in future posts. For now I simply want to draw your attention to this article that appeared in BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES.
Citation:
You will now notice a new option on the blog posts here at FitEyes.com. It is found at the bottom of each blog post and it looks like this:
You will now notice a new option on the blog posts here at FitEyes.com. It is found at the bottom of each post and it looks like this:
FitEyes.com website will be down for maintenance at the following time:
Start time: June 4, 2008 @ 10:30pm EST
Length of outage: Expectation is at least 20 minutes.
We will be replacing defective power distribution units.
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:
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.
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.
Hi,
I understand that the AT555 should be connected to the computer for data collection. I do not work out of my home, so I am away from home, at my office most of the day. What is recommended for data collection in a case like this? I do have a computer at work and at home, but it would be difficult to transport the tonometer to and from work every day, making the computer connections, etc. How do others handle situations like this?
Sally
Hi, my name is Sally and I have just joined this group.
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:
There are two sets of "windows" that need to be cleaned on this tonometer.
I have attached the alignment window cleaning instructions as an image below. (If you want this information as a PDF document, please let me know.) In addition, please see the applanation window instructions below.
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:
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.)
I consolidated many forums at FitEyes.com. Now most discussions are in the General Discussions Forum. This is the one place you can post any vision-related question or find answers to many existing questions. This should simplify site navigation greatly.
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).
You will notice a lot of changes to the website. Please let me know how you like it. Be sure and ask if you have questions or issues. Enjoy!
andrea:
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.
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.
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.
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