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Nearly four weeks ago I wrote the blog post about my intraocular pressure reaching a record low of 6.7 mmHg as measured by the Reichert Ocular Response Analyzer.
Much of my focus has been on high-frequency monitoring of intraocular pressure with currently available technology. The current standard in ophthalmology practice seems to be monitoring intraocular pressure at a frequency of once every three to twelve months, depending on specific patient factors. In contrast, my research efforts look at what is possible when intraocular pressure is monitored as frequently as hundreds of times per day for many consecutive days.
Question: Often I see GERD and other stomach / esophagus problems on the Glaucoma website. I too have a modest GERD problem. Would there be a possible relation between Glaucoma and GERD? Might be lifestyle influances?
Elevated intraocular pressure can be classified as a condition characterized by resistance and contraction. The intraocular fluid cannot flow from the eye freely because there is resistance in one or both of the main drainage areas. This resistance creates elevated pressure inside the eye.
For all of us with glaucoma or any vision-related health issue (or any health issue at all, for that matter), we can benefit by coming to understand that we have created that health issue through our own past chronic thought patterns and our own dominant emotional patterns.
At some level, we have chosen to have the experience of disease. We have chosen it because we wanted that experience and we probably wanted the experience in order that we might have greater appreciation for the opposite experience.
It is time to start Chapter Two of my blog. I believe there will be many more chapters. However, it feels like Chapter One has come to a close.
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.
Before meeting Dr.
This news comes from Neil Osterweil, Senior Associate Editor, MedPage Today. (Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.)
August 06, 2007
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