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My Opthalmologist told me today that they are reducing the recommended number of times pregnant diabetics have their eyes checked during pregnancy. God knows why. Surely it's a completely false economy if that means someone ends up getting a bleed from proliferative retinopathy because they haven't been lasered in time?
he doesn't agree with it as pregnancy can bring on changes in retinopathy very fast. People have gone blind from it before the pregnancy is over (unusual but it has happened) I think the combination of growth hormones plus (in some cases) a Hba1c which may be reduced rapidly to allow for the pregnancy or if it is unplanned is a very bad one.
My eyes both went haywire in both my pregnancies despite the fact that I'd had pre emptive laser on one of them to avoid that very problem. I was fine at 30 weeks, told not to worry then boom! at 36 weeks had a bad bleed out of the blue. It did marr what should have been a lovely time before the birth, but I recoverd ok and am stable in both eyes now.
I just can't understand the logic of reducing checks, and warn any pregnant diabetic with any pre existing retinopathy to be very careful.
he doesn't agree with it as pregnancy can bring on changes in retinopathy very fast. People have gone blind from it before the pregnancy is over (unusual but it has happened) I think the combination of growth hormones plus (in some cases) a Hba1c which may be reduced rapidly to allow for the pregnancy or if it is unplanned is a very bad one.
My eyes both went haywire in both my pregnancies despite the fact that I'd had pre emptive laser on one of them to avoid that very problem. I was fine at 30 weeks, told not to worry then boom! at 36 weeks had a bad bleed out of the blue. It did marr what should have been a lovely time before the birth, but I recoverd ok and am stable in both eyes now.
I just can't understand the logic of reducing checks, and warn any pregnant diabetic with any pre existing retinopathy to be very careful.
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