Hi,
My first post on this forum - I was diagnosed with Type 2 last Tuesday. I'm not hugely overweight (need to lose about 7Kg) and fairly young for this (44) but there is a history of it in the family so I guess I'm just wading in the shallow end of the gene pool! In the last week and a bit I have tried to do the right things - on a strict diet to lose weight (2Kg lost so far!) and exercising every day. I am also on 500mg Metformin per day. My glucose has one from the diagnostic reading of 16 down to 5.9 this morning and has been fairly consistently at 'normal' levels since I started taking care.
So it's looking pretty positive really, if I can keep up the diet & exercise. The only thing that is really bothering me is that my eyesight seems to have suddenly got much worse in the last couple of weeks. I have had reading glasses for the last year or so but I didn't really need them - only for very close-up stuff...wiring a plug, that kind of thing. But now I pretty much can't see without them. I can't read at all without them.
I was going to go to the opticians for new glasses but I read that high sugar levels can cause the lens to swell and I wondered if this is what has happened. Apparently it can take 6 weeks for the lens to go back to normal, once sugar levels are normal again. So if that is what is causing my problem it should get better over the next couple of months I guess.
Does anyone have any experience of this? Is it likely my suddenly worsening eyesight is due to my diabetes?
Thanks!
Col
My first post on this forum - I was diagnosed with Type 2 last Tuesday. I'm not hugely overweight (need to lose about 7Kg) and fairly young for this (44) but there is a history of it in the family so I guess I'm just wading in the shallow end of the gene pool! In the last week and a bit I have tried to do the right things - on a strict diet to lose weight (2Kg lost so far!) and exercising every day. I am also on 500mg Metformin per day. My glucose has one from the diagnostic reading of 16 down to 5.9 this morning and has been fairly consistently at 'normal' levels since I started taking care.
So it's looking pretty positive really, if I can keep up the diet & exercise. The only thing that is really bothering me is that my eyesight seems to have suddenly got much worse in the last couple of weeks. I have had reading glasses for the last year or so but I didn't really need them - only for very close-up stuff...wiring a plug, that kind of thing. But now I pretty much can't see without them. I can't read at all without them.
I was going to go to the opticians for new glasses but I read that high sugar levels can cause the lens to swell and I wondered if this is what has happened. Apparently it can take 6 weeks for the lens to go back to normal, once sugar levels are normal again. So if that is what is causing my problem it should get better over the next couple of months I guess.
Does anyone have any experience of this? Is it likely my suddenly worsening eyesight is due to my diabetes?
Thanks!
Col