Dr. Gary Foster – Fort Collins & Loveland, CO There is good news and bad news about the pressure in the eyes after cataract removal. The good news is that cataract surgery tends to lower eye pressure once you heal. The bad news is that cataract surgery can raise pressure for the first week or Read More→
How Does Cataract Surgery affect Glaucoma and Intraocular Pressure?
April 26, 2013 by
A series of studies have now shown that cataract surgery tends to lower intraocular pressure (IOP). What does that mean for you? Let’s start with an explanation of what pressure does to your eye. The eye is a thin walled ball. If your eye did not have pressure higher than the air in the atmosphere Read More→
Slower Eye Movements in Glaucoma Patients
April 7, 2013 by
A recent study in Eye and Brain, Nov 2012, found evidence that patients with glaucoma had a delayed reaction time with their eye movements. Glaucoma is a disease where the nerve cells that send vision information from the eye to the brain progressively stop working, starting with peripheral vision and then moving towards the center. Read More→
Could you Laser Away Your Glaucoma Drops?
February 12, 2013 by
Glaucoma is an eye disease where the pressure inside the eye (IOP) is too high. This higher pressure damages the optic nerve resulting in the progressive loss of peripheral vision. The loss of peripheral vision can usually be stopped if the IOP is lowered to the normal range which is between 10-21 mm Hg. This can Read More→
The Effect of Statins on the Development of Glaucoma
December 28, 2012 by
Glaucoma is a disease that, left untreated, progressively robs vision starting with peripheral vision and working its way towards central vision. Researchers have recently observed that when patients with hyperlipidemia (high lipid in the blood) are placed on a category of lipid lowering drugs called statins that they are less likely to develop glaucoma. This Read More→