supine https://www.fiteyes.com/taxonomy/term/230/all en Eye Pressure Miracle https://www.fiteyes.com/eye-pressure-miracle <div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/eye-pressure-miracle" st_title="Eye%20Pressure%20Miracle" class="st_facebook_large" displayText="facebook"></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/eye-pressure-miracle" st_title="Eye%20Pressure%20Miracle" class="st_twitter_large" displayText="twitter" st_via="" st_username=""></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/eye-pressure-miracle" st_title="Eye%20Pressure%20Miracle" class="st_sharethis_large" displayText="sharethis" st_via="" st_username=""></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p></p><p>Starting with <a href="/True-24-Hour-Eye-Pressure-Monitoring" title="diurnal intraocular pressure exam">my first true 24-hour period of intraocular pressure data collection</a> I was shocked to see how high my eye pressure rose while I was lying in bed and sleeping at night. My eye pressure more than doubled while I was sleeping, going from around 12 to around 25 mmHg.</p> <p>The diurnal intraocular pressure exam mentioned in this prior post was done in early 2007. In the Fall of 2007 I added another tonometer (the Tiolat iCare rebound tonometer) to my collection and I begain serious study of my supine intraocular pressure. The iCare allows me to more easily monitor my eye pressure while I am lying down in bed. Previously I did not have an easy solution for supine self-tonometry. Once I began using the iCare, my research into intraocular pressure in the horizontal posture really got serious.</p> <p>It took me months of practice to learn to use the iCare well -- and even longer to master self-tonometry with it while lying down. And it does require a lot of effort to check my eye pressure in bed almost every day. I've been doing this since last year and it is starting to pay big dividends.</p> <p>Careful study of my intraocular pressure while in bed at night or early in the morning proved that the initial results I saw underreported the maximal increase. I began seeing peak intraocular pressure values anywhere from 23 to 30 mmHg while lying down. This represents up to a tripling of my eye pressure from the low during the day to the high while sleeping.</p> <p>In fact, during this period of time my daytime intraocular pressure continued declining and reached new records low -- but my nighttime eye pressure refused to coorperate and remained high. Never once -- not one single time in thousands of IOP exams -- did my eye pressure go below 22 mmHg in these conditions (in bed, supine, at time of day near peak IOP).</p> <p>Since last Fall I have put all my attention on reducing my nighttime intraocular pressure. I can easily manage my eye pressure during the day now. It says in a very low-normal range all the time, so I began my search for new solutions that would be as effective for helping me manage my nighttime IOP.</p> <p>I saw my first glimpse of positive results in January of this year. For the first time ever, I recorded supine eye pressure values consistently below 20 mmHg. I thought I had a solution I could begin using, but for months following that one good result, I could not repeat my accomplishment. Then in March, I started seeing small breakthroughs. However, each time I saw good results and tried to repeat what I had done to achieve those results, I could not reproduce them. Weeks would go by without seeing any indication that what I was doing was working. I kept trying different things and experimenting very carefully. Finally, I began to notice that I was getting more frequent success. I was clearly learning what works, but I was not able to implement it consistently.</p> <p>Just in the last couple months, I really learned how to successfully -- and consistently -- manage my intraocular pressure while sleeping. I started seeing a nice downward trend in my IOP similar to what I saw in prior years for my daytime IOP.The IOP values below 20 (such as 18 mmHg) became an everyday thing with just minor exceptions.</p> <p>And I gained the ability to create low IOP values in the supine position at will -- similar to what I learned to do during the daytime previous (by employing things like exercise, stress reduction, etc.). But these new methods are things that work while I'm sleeping or lying down and they are much more subtle skills.</p> <p>My goals has been to consistently see intraocular pressure values below 20 mmHg in the supine position around the time of my peak IOP (early morning). As I said, I've been fairly successful in that and I've been feeling really good about my accomplishment. Then something incredible happened.</p> <p>I had a visitor from across the country for a couple days. I was teaching him the mind-body skills I'm using to achieve the impressive results I'm getting with my eye pressure. The practice is called <a href="http://sereneimpulse.com/" title="[Health-Abundance-Peace] Feel Life Energy Dancing Inside You">Serene Impulse</a>. I spent about five hours a day teaching him the basics for two consecutive days.</p> <p>My eye pressure miracle happened the next morning following this teaching -- I saw the lowest eye pressure values I have ever seen. And by a large margin. I have known that Serene Impulse is a real key to my success, but I generally use it for a limited amount of time per day. But while teaching <a href="http://sereneimpulse.com/" title="[Health-Abundance-Peace] Feel Life Energy Dancing Inside You">Serene Impulse</a> these two days, I did more Serene Impulse myself than I usually do -- by far. And that had a profound effect on my IOP the next morning.</p> <p>My supine intraocular pressure the next morning (at the peak time of day) was 11 mmHg! Wow.</p> <p>Previously, it was wonderful just to see a value below 20 mmHg. And suddenly I leapfrogged to a new range of low IOP. I measured this with the iCare tonometer I've been using for all prior supine IOP measurements. Each iCare measurement is the average of six individual IOP measurements. I repeated my measurements again and again to verify the results. In total, I took over 30 measurements and they all ranged from 9 mmHg to 12 mmHg, reflecting the normal variation seen as a result of the ocular pulse. So the result is real and it is backed up by good data that is part of a very large data set.</p> <p><b>I call this a true eye pressure miracle! </b></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Filed Under (tags): </h3><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tags/Serene-Impulse">Serene Impulse</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tags/Eye-Pressure">Eye Pressure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/sleep">sleep</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tags/icare">iCare</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tags/supine">supine</a></li></ul></div> Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:03:00 +0000 dave 247 at https://www.fiteyes.com Glaucoma Specialist Visit: Eye Pressure and Lying down https://www.fiteyes.com/glaucoma-specialist-visit-eye-pressure-and-lying-down <div class="sharethis-buttons"><div class="sharethis-wrapper"><span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/glaucoma-specialist-visit-eye-pressure-and-lying-down" st_title="Glaucoma%20Specialist%20Visit%3A%20Eye%20Pressure%20and%20Lying%20down" class="st_facebook_large" displayText="facebook"></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/glaucoma-specialist-visit-eye-pressure-and-lying-down" st_title="Glaucoma%20Specialist%20Visit%3A%20Eye%20Pressure%20and%20Lying%20down" class="st_twitter_large" displayText="twitter" st_via="" st_username=""></span> <span st_url="https://www.fiteyes.com/glaucoma-specialist-visit-eye-pressure-and-lying-down" st_title="Glaucoma%20Specialist%20Visit%3A%20Eye%20Pressure%20and%20Lying%20down" class="st_sharethis_large" displayText="sharethis" st_via="" st_username=""></span> </div></div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>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;</p> <p>Today i met with my glaucoma specialist and told him a few of the things that have been going on.</p> <p>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)</p> <p>2) The sleep study where i was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He expressed his feeling that sleep apnea was very bad for the optic nerve. He felt that a cpap machine was warranted to eliminate sleep apnea even though it may raise eye pressures. I am waiting for my dental appliance first. a higher pillow has seemed to help with snoring except when i drink alcohol.</p> <p>3) My low blood pressure during the sleep study especially when i awoke (pre 98/54 post:80/58). He explained that the difference between eye pressure and blood pressure is called perfusion pressure and that seems to have an impact on glaucoma. The lower the blood pressure and the higher the eye pressure the harder it is to get blood into the eye. I said (after having read Dave's stuff on here) that eye pressure goes up when you sleep. He said how do you know that and proceeded to drop my chair into a supine (lying) position and let me rest there for 5 minutes, wheeled in a machine and took my eye pressure with a medtronic machine while i was in the supine position. then he let me rest sitting in the chair for 10 minutes before taking the pressure with the medtronic machine again. Here's what happened:</p> <p>Goldman: 17, 17; Lying down 5 minutes Medtronic: 28, 29; Sitting Up Medtronic: 22 23; Goldman: 18 19. So the goldman seemed to read 3 points lower than the medtronic but that was a pretty large increase in 5 min of lying down.</p> <p>I may adjust how i take naps:) might have to sit up for those. exercise before naps.</p> <p>Anyway i guess my feeling for my case is that the damage is happening at night due to the perfusion issue of high eye pressure / low blood pressure, sleep apnea which reduces the available oxygen in the blood and possible blood flow partial occlusion due to the atlas alignment. The importance of the atlas adjustment seems rather high as my left eye has shown very little damage.</p> <p>so the questions are: how to raise blood pressure: as far as ive figured out salt, ashwaganda, eleuthro, acupuncture have some support. I take these herbs and other neuroprotective ones (turmeric, ginkgo, b12, bilberry) right before i go to bed.</p> <p>how to lower supine eye pressure: this is a tough one - any suggestions? i have a higher pillow. raise one end of the bed? exercise before bed? The doctor said the azopt and lumigan i am taking are the best meds for controlling nightime pressure. Timolol has given me memory loss side effects and lowers blood pressure and heart rate so its out.</p> <p>Anyway i have to thank my very busy glaucoma specialist for taking the time to measure my supine IOP!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline inline clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Filed Under (tags): </h3><ul class="links inline"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tags/glaucoma">glaucoma</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tags/intraocular-pressure">intraocular pressure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tags/Eye-Pressure">Eye Pressure</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tags/sleep">sleep</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tags/iop">IOP</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tags/supine">supine</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-6"><a href="/tags/apnea">apnea</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-7"><a href="/tags/sleep-apnea">sleep apnea</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-8"><a href="/tags/atlas">atlas</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-9"><a href="/tags/perfusion">perfusion</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-10"><a href="/tags/lying">lying</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-11"><a href="/tags/low-blood-pressure">low blood pressure</a></li></ul></div> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:38:00 +0000 tsingle999 358 at https://www.fiteyes.com