Dr. Barbara Wirostko FARVO and glaucoma patient Rebecca Vilender talk about the benefits of measuring your IOP at home, and how you can access an affordable home-monitoring device.
Glaucoma is a chronic disease that requires chronic monitoring. IOP monitoring is most often based on measurements taken during clinic visits, necessarily occurring at a specific day and time during business hours, often months apart. However, IOP can vary throughout the day and night; spot measurements cannot capture its fluctuations.
Knowing this, many physicians want to monitor IOP at various times. The iCare Home offers a tonometer (an instrument for measuring pressure) that can be easily used by patients outside of their doctor’s office hours. Physicians report that, for some patients, the iCare Home tonometer has detected dramatic and potentially dangerous spikes in IOP that they did not capture during office visits. Detecting these IOP spikes, prior to progression, may enable earlier intervention, more accurate treatment, and better outcomes.
Now, you can rent or buy an affordable iCare Home tonometer with a prescription from your physician. Dr. Barbara Wirostko, founder of MyEyes, will talk about the process, and a patient who has used the iCare Home will demonstrate its use and tell us how she benefitted from monitoring her IOP throught the day.