Back on glaucoma drops :(

Had a early morning appointment with my opthalmologist - pressures were 30 in right and 24 in left. So he put me back on glaucoma drops :(. On top of that I've got pressure at work. 

Anyways I am not giving up - I read this amazing book over the weekend - The Brain that changes itself -- where there is this amazing story about a Russian doctor - and his lines are -- WE SEE WITH OUR MIND AND BRAIN AND NOT WITH OUR EYES.. Wasn't exactly the same this said by Dr Bates over a 100 years ago? Enough talk.. back to practicing Bates method - which is not doing eye exercises but conditioning the mind so that the brain is capable of seeing again. 

Visual Field Test result

Got the visual field test done yesterday - the whole process went pretty well. The machine uses was SITA SWAP - where yellow background with blue dots is used. This is supposed to detect optic nerve changes much earlier than other machines .. The result was normal for both eyes. 

Next appointment with my opthalmologist is next tuesday (03/24). 

Visual Field Test tomorrow

Have a visual field test tomorrow in the morning. This is the first time I am getting it done since I changed doctors. The doctor informed me that this will be a bit different than my previous VFT's - it will be yellow dots on a blue background. Will blog tomorrow once I get that done.. 

Eye pain relieved with eye movement

I work as a software engineer.. so due to the eye strain, quite a lot of times there is pain when I move my eyes. 

It seems like looking/staring kind of stops the eye movement.. at least in my case.  When this happens I also noticed that my eyes feel hard - so can it be that the pressure increases if the eyes do not move? I surely think so. So the best way to get rid of the pain is to move the eyes a lot.. in all directions.. try to trace any object, letter, numbers, anything .. I did this for around 30 minutes yesterday and my eyes felt a whole lot better last night as well as today in the morning. They felt softer too. Will remember to do this whenever this happens again.