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Uveitis to Glaucoma
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Heifer…@gmail.com wrote: > Yeah, that’s the IT of it. > My parents had me seen by the Glaucoma Associates of New York and they > knew exactly what to do with me, so that’s where I’ll be having my > surgery. The Indiana docs put me on Diamox a couple weeks [...]
Seeking Treatment/Evaluation Advice for Advanced Glaucoma
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Great Post, Sherry! All I would add is that if your friend has had a 50% drop in eye pressure with these meds and currently hovers in the low to mid teens, that is likely to be sufficient to prevent any significant futher loss of vision. If he can get the drops, [...]
Viagra and Cialis' Connection to Blindness Investigated
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Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) is not similar to glaucoma in symptoms or etiology. AION is very much like a stroke to the optic nerve that causes immediate and usually permanent visual loss (although not complete…patients are often 20/400, and the loss may only involve the upper or lower half of [...]
Marijuana
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Hi Tom How can you seriously contemplate using an illicit drug, which has never had any research attached to it, and is acknowledged as being harmful to your general system, to address a local (eye) problem when you cannot measure the effectiveness of the treatment, since no qualified practitioner would ever [...]
Ophthalmic beta-blockers and Bradycardia
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Thanks for the reply. I have now replaced Cosopt by just the Trusopt component, thus eliminating the beta-blocker (timolol). I am wondering how one measures the timolol residue in the body as alluded to in your post.Heart rate this AM was 54 instead of the previous 45-46, but we’ll see. Now, [...]
Dr. Cohn … Seeking best opthalmologists in Dayton. Ohio area?
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Hi Axel, Unfortunately, hard to say if your doc is a "good one" or not…to me the tools are not as important as the communication and your level of comfort. It does sound, based on your description, that you probably do have glaucoma, but without seeing your optic nerve [...]
Positive outcome
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Greetings! Every year or so I like to post the details of my own glaucoma case — it is a very positive story! I was first diagnosed as a glaucoma suspect 35 years ago in 1970. I was only 39 years old at the time. I will be 74 next month. My [...]
Need some hope: stopping progression?
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Checkout wrote: > I was not diagnosed early and had moderate loss of vision in my right > eye when initially treated just over five years ago. Thus far there > has been no further deterioration. Medication and treatment has been > changed from time to time, either because the drops [...]
Dr. Cohn? Hemorrage after Pchmate & Drops?
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -eyegu…@aol.com wrote: >>just had a full eye exam with full dilation and my first corneal >>thickness measurement, by a Pachmate device. I was happy that the >>cornea is thick,with the suggestion that my eye pressure can be >>considered four points below the IOP [...]
Glaucoma and cataract
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no, contact lenses have nothing to do with cataracts in any way. You may wear them. –Dr. C
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Cataracts can develop VERY variably in different patients (between six months and 25 years). Nothing has been shown to be significantly preventative. Sunbathing with eyes closed is worse for the skin than [...]