As if we needed any more problems.

oceanpearl · Post by **oceanpearl** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:04 pm

Recently I was diagnosed with "Open Angle Glaucoma" and while researching it i came up with this.

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UAB Optometrist Discuss Relationship Between Glaucoma And Sleep Apnea At World Glaucoma Congress In Singapore

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Kristen Ruggeri
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Posted on June 20, 2007 at 10:00 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Optometry have found a connection between glaucoma and sleep apnea. They will present their discovery to 4,000 worldwide glaucoma specialists next month at the 2007 World Glaucoma Congress in Singapore.

Over a three-year period, UAB researchers reviewed more than 70,000 records at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (BVAMC).

“The most crucial bit of information that we found is that the risk of being diagnosed with glaucoma is 75 percent higher among those who had been diagnosed with sleep apnea,” said Leo Semes, associate professor of optometry and one of the investigators on this study.

While this connection has been suggested before, this is the largest study to support the idea, Semes said. Researchers now predict that sleep apnea may cause glaucoma.

“A person suffering from sleep apnea periodically stops breathing during sleep,” said Semes. “The working hypothesis is that during these non-breathing episodes, or apneic periods, there is a loss of blood flow to the optic nerve, which may lead to damage evidenced by glaucoma.”

Semes, along with UAB colleagues and co-authors Megan Walker, O.D., Patti Fuhr, O.D., Ph.D., and Olvio Clay, M.S., Ph.D., will present their findings with a poster during the Association of International Glaucoma Societies (AIGS) World Glaucoma Congress meeting July 18 to 21.

TXKajun · Post by **TXKajun** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:17 pm

Hey, this might not be all bad! See http://www.ukcia.org/medical/glaucoma.php for some interesting info! (Tongue planted firmly in cheek)

Now we can be sleepy, exhausted, have GERD, can't see AND get high! Geez!

Kajun

oceanpearl · Post by **oceanpearl** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:21 pm

Am I required to get pot from my local DME??

Linda3032 · Post by **Linda3032** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:25 pm

oceanpearl wrote:Am I required to get pot from my local DME??

And will our insurance company reimburse us for it? ...

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:29 pm

I AIN'T SMOKIN' NO GOVERNMENT WEED!

LOL,
B.

TXKajun · Post by **TXKajun** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:29 pm

Gawd, I shudder to think about getting pot from a DME!!! And trying to explain it to the insurance company "Well, I need to buy an ounce or two of pot because I'm getting air blown up my nose every night." ROFLMAO!

Kajun

jabberwock · Post by **jabberwock** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:38 pm

And if you can't get "treatment" from the govt or your DME, just go on over to your local high school at lunch time

KAZ · Post by **KAZ** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:49 pm

My question is if this is with untreated SA. I'm sure that uncontrolled high blood pressure also does a number on this and other systems. Regards

Shari · Post by **Shari** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:06 pm

oceanpearl wrote: UAB Optometrist Discuss Relationship Between Glaucoma And Sleep Apnea At World Glaucoma Congress In Singapore

And to think for YEARS I thought this was ONLY snoring.

TXKajun · Post by **TXKajun** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:11 pm

KAZ, as you begin to read the posts here, you (like the rest of us) will come to the conclusion that it's ALL related! OSA, hypertension, glaucoma, weight gain, Type-II diabetes, etc! And it seems, IMHO, that we've gotta treat them ALL.....either all at once or consecutively...in order to get the most from our lives.

Kajun

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:24 pm

TXKajun wrote:KAZ, as you begin to read the posts here, you (like the rest of us) will come to the conclusion that it's ALL related! OSA, hypertension, glaucoma, weight gain, Type-II diabetes, etc! And it seems, IMHO, that we've gotta treat them ALL.....either all at once or consecutively...in order to get the most from our lives.

Kajun

....Alien Abductions, Road Rage, Mother In Law Massacres...

LOL,
B.

oceanpearl · Post by **oceanpearl** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:37 pm

TXKajun wrote:KAZ, as you begin to read the posts here, you (like the rest of us) will come to the conclusion that it's ALL related! OSA, hypertension, glaucoma, weight gain, Type-II diabetes, etc! And it seems, IMHO, that we've gotta treat them ALL.....either all at once or consecutively...in order to get the most from our lives.

Kajun

Sorry bout dat but I don't have weight gain. diabetes, hypertension, etc. Just Apnea and Glaucoma.

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:38 pm

Yeah, but OP, what about that Alien Abduction?

LOL,
B.

neversleeps · Post by **neversleeps** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:55 pm

Rumor has it, as with CPAP software, the pot is only used by Providers and Physicians.

(Which would explain a lot...)

Susanm · Post by **Susanm** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:07 pm

[quote="oceanpearl"]Am I required to get pot from my local DME??

Wouldn't they just try to supply you with plain old hemp instead at an outrageously inflated price?

As if we needed any more problems.

As if we needed any more problems.

Glaucoma ?

Re: As if we needed any more problems.

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