Annual Medicare vision exam came up with elevated pressures in my right eye and a start on age related macular degeneration on my left. So maybe I'll be looking down a soda straw in one eye and seeing nothing in the middle of the other. Optometrist told me to find an ophthalmologist and I'm trying to find one in my advantage plan that will see me within the next month.
When I look at the forum for glaucoma patients there seems to be a lot of gloom and doom. Most eye drops sting and as you lower your pressures medically or surgically cataracts develop, spinach will either help your glaucoma or give you glaucoma, buy your own tonometer so you can check your pressures several times a day, etc.
Obviously there's a parallel with BITOG except we're talking eyes instead of oil and that's less interesting and scarier. Just as many people who don't follow this board do just fine with any old oil changed every 8000 miles, I'm wondering if there are people on this board who have been diagnosed and really don't have much of a problem with it.
BTW- My exam showed 25 in the right eye, but I was taking way too much caffeine and salt so cutting those out can't do any harm. I do have high blood pressure but it's fairly well controlled with lisinopril and a beta blocker-usually under 120/80. Apparently eye pressures can vary as much and as quickly as blood pressure. If that's true, I imagine you can have the same white coat syndrome with eye pressures.
When I look at the forum for glaucoma patients there seems to be a lot of gloom and doom. Most eye drops sting and as you lower your pressures medically or surgically cataracts develop, spinach will either help your glaucoma or give you glaucoma, buy your own tonometer so you can check your pressures several times a day, etc.
Obviously there's a parallel with BITOG except we're talking eyes instead of oil and that's less interesting and scarier. Just as many people who don't follow this board do just fine with any old oil changed every 8000 miles, I'm wondering if there are people on this board who have been diagnosed and really don't have much of a problem with it.
BTW- My exam showed 25 in the right eye, but I was taking way too much caffeine and salt so cutting those out can't do any harm. I do have high blood pressure but it's fairly well controlled with lisinopril and a beta blocker-usually under 120/80. Apparently eye pressures can vary as much and as quickly as blood pressure. If that's true, I imagine you can have the same white coat syndrome with eye pressures.