glaucoma

Lasik and Glaucoma

Submitted by dave on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 11:26am

A new theory (still being researched and discussed) is that glaucoma causes a remodeling of the cornea that results in lower corneal hysteresis (CH). However, regardless of the causative mechanism, low  corneal hysteresis has been correlated with glaucoma progression in early research. I believe the research on that point is substantial enough to act on the information right now, even though more research is warranted. 

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Is cup size change from .6 mm to .8 mm in a year rapid deterioration?

Submitted by villandra on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 10:30pm

 

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

 

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What Can We Do To Prevent Further Glaucomatous Damage To Our Eyes?

Submitted by dave on Sat, 08/04/2007 - 3:25pm

Paresh posted an excellent message about dealing with glaucoma in the FitEyes.com forums. He asked seven great questions. I decided to do my best to respond to each question. I'm going to take them one at a time. Paresh's first question was , "what we can do in daily life to limit further damage to eyes?" This blog post is my first response.

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Can the heavy use of a computer be a cause of glaucoma?

Submitted by vis01 on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 4:01pm

Almost every eye specialist you might visit nowadays will confidently answer "of course, not!" Is it so clear? From my personal experience, I learnt that a heavy use of computer (often I spend the whole workday working on the computer) often causes me eye discomfort, pains, and headaches. Therefore, my impression always was that the conventional medicine doesn't have the full answers.

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