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To: ConservativeMind

I have open angle glaucoma. As far as the pressure in my eye, I don’t have that info. I don’t have it on line, either. You can bet I’m gonna request it.


19 posted on 05/20/2025 1:44:45 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115

You want to eapecially know what your net mm Hg numbers are.

For instance, if you have a thicker cornea, your ophthalmologist can identify that thickness and beyond a certain point, it is artificially making your eye pressure reading look higher than it is. A person with a thicker cornea can have look like the pressure is 3 mm Hg higher than it really is, while a thinner cornea is actually a higher pressure than it reads.

I have a thicker cornea. So people like me can have a reading like 30, but it’s really 27 mm Hg. Someone with a thin one may show 23, but it’s actually 24 or 25.

That net reading is what is treated, but going for a normal “puff” test can’t tell you those off-sets. I know my puff test is always higher than it really is.


20 posted on 05/20/2025 1:51:42 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: telescope115

By the way, I do believe you can get at least some of your eye ability back, but you really need to hit it from the pressure side, the blood flow side, and the nerve nutrient side.


21 posted on 05/20/2025 1:52:47 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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