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FitEyes member billym wrote on Wed, Jul 9 2008 12:40 AM:
"My doctor told me that thickness of the eye affects pressure and that because of the thickness of mine, he subtracts 5 from total. Has anyone else heard this?"
This is my first blog post and i've never done this before but i thought i would start with what is going on now;
Today i met with my glaucoma specialist and told him a few of the things that have been going on.
1) The Atlas Orthogonal adjustment that eliminated my exercise induced visual field reduction in my right eye. (my right eye has suffered the most nerve damage)
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?
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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:
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.
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:
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