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Hi AnAires, What you say is wholley consistent with what the optician suggested and what the Eye Hospital doctor seemed to discard. The optician said her father has glaucoma so I imagine her attention is well focussed (pun accidental) on the possibility that a sporadic high measurement could be a precursor to glaucoma. Luckily I think hypertension is a lifetime away. Things seem fine in that department. It is the left eye that has the higher pressure. This eye has been a source of much bemusement and squirming. For an inexplicable reason this eye makes a squelching noise when I rub it, almost as it there are bubbles of air beneath the eyelid that are racing for unpressed regions. With concentration I can make the squelching sound with a circular screwing action of my hand so that it seems that I am unscrewing my eyeball.   I am amazed how my friends concoct horror scenarios and lapse into the belief that it is more sinister that a chap with a squelchy eye.    Still, we all have our party tricks, don’t we?  Please tell me I am not the only one.           CJ

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello Read your post and you are talking about Glaucoma? I have suffered with Glaucoma for about 10 years now and I can tell you that the eye pressure varies constantly and so will your vision.  If you have Hypertension, Glaucoma will also be effected by your Hypertension levels. I strongly suggest you don’t stop investigating the high eye pressure in your eyes.  Do go see another eye doctor but try a specialist.  If your eyes at any time have a high pressure, there is something wrong.  Make an appointment with an eye specialist asap if you can. Good luck to you and stay happy and healthy.

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sinister that a chap with a squelchy eye.    Still, we all have our party tricks, don’t we?  Please tell me I am not the only one.

Nope.. it’s just you. :) -MT

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Chris, hate to burst your (eye-air?) bubble, but my left eye does that too–squelches, I mean, when I rub it. In fact, my party trick growing up was to get someone to put a finger near the inside corner of my eye while I held my nose and blew as hard as I could. The lucky volunteer could feel a stream of air coming out of the corner of my eye. Cool, huh. And I don’t have varying pressure or any other eye problems but a little macular degeneration (normal for my age they say) and nearsightedness, oh yeah, a minor cyst in the macula that developed after I was diagnosed. It has shrunk to near invisibility. In any case the air trick was mine long before I developed diabetes. — Nanuq of the North, T2, 6 years, glucophage, diet & (not enough) exercise Remove grzl to send email: I’m only a grizzly when my bgs are low! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It is the left eye that has the higher pressure. This eye has been a source of much bemusement and squirming. For an inexplicable reason this eye makes a squelching noise when I rub it, almost as it there are bubbles of air beneath the eyelid that are racing for unpressed regions. With concentration I can make the squelching sound with a circular screwing action of my hand so that it seems that I am unscrewing my eyeball.   I am amazed how my friends concoct horror scenarios and lapse into the belief that it is more sinister that a chap with a squelchy eye.    Still, we all have our party tricks, don’t we?  Please tell me I am not the only one.

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Chris, hate to burst your (eye-air?) bubble, but my left eye does that too–squelches, I mean, when I rub it. In fact, my party trick growing up was to get someone to put a finger near the inside corner of my eye while I held my nose and blew as hard as I could. The lucky volunteer could feel a stream of air coming out of the corner of my eye. Cool, huh.

Some people can swallow liquids just right and make them squirt out of their eye. There was a guy on TV recently squirting milk a few feet. -MT

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Thanks nanuq, I feel a little more normal now.

Chris, hate to burst your (eye-air?) bubble, but my left eye does that too–squelches, I mean, when I rub it. In fact, my party trick growing up was to get someone to put a finger near the inside corner of my eye while I held my nose and blew as hard as I could. The lucky volunteer could feel a stream of air coming out of the corner of my eye. Cool, huh.

          CJ

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Hi Mike, Many thanks,  I shall mention that when I see the optician next. She said more frequent monitoring would be a good precaution so I am going in 3 months time.

and take his advice. Most likely he will recommend monitoring only, but a good test of your visual field would reassure you. Visual field studies usually show up glaucoma loss first, but a diagnostic laser evaluation (GDx) of your retina can reveal problems a little earlier. If either of those are normal, most doctors would reassure you and check it again in six months or a year.

          CJ

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In my annual eye test the optician found one eye to have a higher than average pressure reading and after dilation eyedrops the pressure increased significantly. I was referred to the casualty dept of the local eye hospital who measured the pressure a few hours later and found the levels to be normal. They suggested the opticians equipment was "sensitive".  There is a flaw in that comment since the optician took several measurements and besides, the equipment was unaware of which of my eyes it was measuring and they were consistently different. Does anybody have experience of such things?  Does ocular hypertension vary throughout the day as the optician suggested and why didn’t the doctor at the hospital mention this?           CJ

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Hello Read your post and you are talking about Glaucoma? I have suffered with Glaucoma for about 10 years now and I can tell you that the eye pressure varies constantly and so will your vision.  If you have Hypertension, Glaucoma will also be effected by your Hypertension levels. I strongly suggest you don’t stop investigating the high eye pressure in your eyes.  Do go see another eye doctor but try a specialist.  If your eyes at any time have a high pressure, there is something wrong.  Make an appointment with an eye specialist asap if you can. Good luck to you and stay happy and healthy.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – In my annual eye test the optician found one eye to have a higher than average pressure reading and after dilation eyedrops the pressure increased significantly. I was referred to the casualty dept of the local eye hospital who measured the pressure a few hours later and found the levels to be normal. They suggested the opticians equipment was "sensitive".  There is a flaw in that comment since the optician took several measurements and besides, the equipment was unaware of which of my eyes it was measuring and they were consistently different. Does anybody have experience of such things?  Does ocular hypertension vary throughout the day as the optician suggested and why didn’t the doctor at the hospital mention this?           CJ

It suggests rather that one eye is prone to "angle closure", an unusual anatomical condition where dilation may raise the pressure temporarily. Glaucoma is not high pressure. Glaucoma is damage from high pressure and there is no single definition for what pressure is "normal" for you. Glaucoma (_generally_) develops very slowly from chronic sustained high pressure, and momentary spikes aren’t usually alarming if they aren’t too high or too long. Pressures should be tested at several different times of day before starting someone like you on medicine. See an eye surgeon who has treated "Angle-closure glaucoma" and take his advice. Most likely he will recommend monitoring only, but a good test of your visual field would reassure you. Visual field studies usually show up glaucoma loss first, but a diagnostic laser evaluation (GDx) of your retina can reveal problems a little earlier. If either of those are normal, most doctors would reassure you and check it again in six months or a year. -MT

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