hello, just looking for some thoughts. I’ve recently been asked by consultant to try Fixapost. Has this affected anyones blood pressure/ common symptoms- as my Bp is low already?
I was trying to find out why NTG has happened and it appears to be related to blood flow in the body? Does anyone know more and if anything can be improved for this?
Thanks
Hello.
If you are taking medication for blood pressure it is important that you make your consultant aware. Fixapost contains timolol which is a betablocker, so using this along with any other prescribed BP medication can cause you to feel very tired and fatigued.
This is very similar to Primary Open Angle Glaucoma, except that the eye pressure is within normal levels. The treatment is still the same, which is to lower the pressure to an even lower level to stop the optic nerve damage progressing.
I have naturally lowish blood pressure and fixaprost reduced BP and heart rate further.
The big question - why? How? You are correct, it is believed that the quality of nutrition to the nerves (blood flow) is critical to health and a deficiency here, which is a natural function of age over the whole body, is happening prematurely in the eye. So the fact thaat the pressure is not high is irrelevant as a cause. Until an effective way is found to either boost the nutrition or protect the nerves, further pressure reduction is the only remedy. This just limits the physical damage to the lamina cribrosa, the weak point where the nerves exit the eye, and which is the other cause of glaucomatous damage when the pressure is too high. Keep your BP up to normally acceptable levels with regular exercise (and lots of salt??!!)
Normal pressure glaucoma -having a rant
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