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 I am just recently diagnosed with Glaucoma and want to keep my MEDICAL RECORDS UPT TO DATE and in my personal possession.

Hi,

I was diagnosed with Glaucoma around 1991, after I got a laser treatment for retinal detachment to both eyes.  That was two years after I was treated for retinal detachment to the right eye in 1989; the surgeon then injected a bubble of gas in my right eye to press the retina on the back of the eye and a week later he cauterized using liquid nitrogen.

Hi

I was dignoised with glaucoma two month back.

Currently I use Timolet (one Drop in each eye) at around 7.00AM and 7.00 PM. and Lumigen at night around 9.00 PM ( One drop in each eye)

(1) How precisely we should follow this timing of eye drops. Altering time by 30 min or so only for two days in week  (so that it fit to work schedule) should be OK or not?

Thanks for answering my question in length and depth.

Since there is no sure cure for recovering from damage of Optic nerve caused by glaucoma in our ALOPATHIC treatments, I was looking for other possible treatments in Conjuction with Alopathic for my self.

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23959

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I am in the market for a tonometer (still) but I have signs of cataracts.  Is there information available about whether cataract surgery affects the accuracy of NCT tonometers such as the AT 555?  What about other tonometers (Goldman, ICARE etc)?

Question; if the cup of my optic nerve has expanded from .6 mm to .8 mm in a year, is this rapid deterioration, or slight deterioration?   Intuitively it seems like alot of deterioration, but I don't really know how much meaning it has.   However, a year ago it was considered on the borderline of normal at .6 mm.   After doing a nerve scan the glaucoma specialist thought at the time that it looked most like normal variation.  

Yours,

Dora Smith

Dave, hi again,

I would like to ask you another question about the tonometers. This time about the Keeler Pulsair non-contact series. There are different models, some of them are quite old, for example: Keeler Pulsair 2000, Keller Pulsair 3000, Keller Pulsair EasyEye. I am interested to understand the differences between those. It is natural to expect the later models to be more accurate. Is it true? And what about their compliance with the self-tonometry? Are there models which are not appropriate for self-tonometry, less-convenient, etc.?

Thank you in advance.