Is there something wrong with me if I have trouble with the eye air-puff test/tonometer?
It’s normal to do a reflexive “jerk” when the air puff hits your eye. I don’t like it either, but I **have** to do the test because I have a slight family history for glaucoma. About all you can do is hang on tight to the handgrips on the machine and concentrate on keeping your chin in the cup to keep your head from moving **too** much. Then at least you only have to get hit with the puff once for each eye. I think that eye doctors are more likely to do the glaucoma test just on general principles because the test is a lot easier than it used to be. For the old glaucoma test, they had to soak a piece of bamboo with dye (eye-safe of course), then touch the bamboo to your cornea to release the dye and see from the color how the fluid flowed. I only had to do that once or twice, but trust me, it’s a LOT worse than the air-puff test. EDIT – to the thumbs-downer: Stick it in your eye, pal. 😛 The asker asked for opinions, and that’s my opinion based on having had both versions of the glauc
