Off my Glaucoma Drops :)

Something awesome happened!!! I changed my doctors - and I see a new Glaucoma specialist. 

My first appointment with him was on 3rd Feb 2009. Pressure was 22 in both eyes. 

He looked at my reports and said that he thought I had inflammatory glaucoma - the kind where someone's pressure can rise high because of imflammation in the eyes. So he said that he needs to treat the inflammation and asked me to see him in 2 weeks and to stop.. yes STOP taking the damned glaucoma drops 1 week proir to this. Awesome.. He also did a HRT eye test and my eyes look the same they did last year - so no change in that. He also said that looking at HRT report and the condition of my eyes, people like me can go on for years without taking any drops !!!! 

This is awesome news. I was a bit skeptical at first but I decided to take the risk. I stopped my drops on 10th Feb 2009. My eyes did feel a bit heavy at time.. but what the hell. Whenever I got that feeling I did long swing which helps me immensely. 

So I had another early morning (9.00 am) appoitment with him yesterday - 17th Feb 2009. The pressure's were 20 and 22 - which is the same as with drops :) My eyes were feeling awesome yesterday. He seemed pretty happy with what he saw and has asked me to see him in 1 month. 

He also prescribed an anti-inflammatory eye drop - Xibrom - which is non-steroidal. 

I will also be doing a visual field test in the next month - and meet the doctor after this. 

I am so excited by all this!!!! This is the best thing that has happened to me after a long time. 

My B'Day was on 8th Feb.. has GOD given me this awesome gift?? The Gift of Vision? I surely hope so. 

Another appointment with my optometerist

Had another appointment with my optometerist on Sat - 1/30/2009. This time the eye pressure was 18/18 same in both eyes. The measurement was done in the evening around 5.00 o'clock. 

My optometerist gave me some good peice of info - With a lot of closework, the eye compensates by tilting blood vessels towards the nasal side. Which is why my optic nerves look kind of funny - normal optic nerves have blood vessels passing in the center. So if I start using my peripheral vision, will the network of blood vessels shift towards the center? How do I use my peripheral vision? 

* Dont do close work (I dont know if this is possible)

* Doing various bates exercises - specially long swing - which seems to make one us pay attention to our periperal vision.