Ocular Pessure test advice please

[lcogrady]

YAY!

I have had a pressure test with GP and didnt flinch once and my pressure is OK. At least I know I can get it check with him if any worries.

Cheers all for your advice, I didnt feel a thing

Lucy

[Graeme Stevenson]

Excellent!
What did the GP do differently to the consultant?
What method was used to assess your IOP?
How regularly are you to have it assessed?

Graeme

[lcogrady]

Hi Graeme

Well I had lots of floaters and seeing stars in grafted eye over weekend so went to check it with GP

He used the blue light thingy but the difference was def his attitude and he gave it a good minute or two for aneasthetic drops to work. Plus I knew it had to be done really. IOP in at 16 so good

Eye is Ok which is good and healing well but he does think I have been overdoing things, such as power walking and then feeling sick and dizzy afterwards so I am taking it nice and easy now oops

Lucy

[Andrew MacLean]

Maybe you heard the warning bells; you can always go back to power walking when your eye has healed properly.

Andrew

[rosemary johnson]

Well done, Lucy, for surviving the blue light test! - and to your GP for letting the drops have time to work.
The dizziness is probably the anaesthetic working out of the system. I was told to allow it two weeks. (In my case, tht's now a hollow laugh, but.....!)
I think the floaters may be more obvious if the vision is sharper - the floaters show up more. Also if you're more light sensitive. I've been left with a very very irritiating one post graft - ablck dot in just the wrong place without a lens in reading print, and it's in jsut the right place to make the (light letters on a black background) computer screen text look as if it is rippling as I try to read it. And when I do try to get the new lens in, it is a large brown blur just where I try to read with that eye. Needless to say, the hospital just tell me not to worry about it!!
Rosemary