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<blockquote data-quote="Positivo" data-source="post: 1060875" data-attributes="member: 268854"><p>I hope this helps: I was told some years ago by a Guide Dogs Association bloke that I would probably lose my sight. It turned out that he was selling me a pup (Sorry). When Accident and Emergency referred me to their Ophthalmology Department for a sore eye, the first of two superb Consultants who have dealt with me said that loss of sight was nonsense: "We can cure that" And they have. It has been a long process including eyelid operations to cure eye lashes ingrowing. </p><p></p><p> BUT and this is the real point: I no longer have that diabetic related eye problem. It has indeed been a long haul, with quite a few injections, steroids, and buckets of eye drops. I first knew how the improvement was speeding up when I lately realised I could see my computer screen better without glasses. I can read the use by date on food items again. Yesterday I had a check-up. Glaucoma fears have been removed (eye pressure 12 and 12, Left and Right). Chart tests two full lines better than previously. I even managed to read quite well down the small print close-up card with the left eye, previously a total blur</p><p></p><p>Can you believe that many of the people who helped me most were some of those greedy selfish money-grubbing Junior Doctors being vilified in the media? Wonderfully kind technical staff, theatre and clinic nurses, and a specialist nurse who used the YAG laser on me - more fun than an arcade game. Never once have they failed to protect me from any real pain.</p><p></p><p>I keep reminding myself that many of the procedures and treatments I have had would probably have been impossible say twenty years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Positivo, post: 1060875, member: 268854"] I hope this helps: I was told some years ago by a Guide Dogs Association bloke that I would probably lose my sight. It turned out that he was selling me a pup (Sorry). When Accident and Emergency referred me to their Ophthalmology Department for a sore eye, the first of two superb Consultants who have dealt with me said that loss of sight was nonsense: "We can cure that" And they have. It has been a long process including eyelid operations to cure eye lashes ingrowing. BUT and this is the real point: I no longer have that diabetic related eye problem. It has indeed been a long haul, with quite a few injections, steroids, and buckets of eye drops. I first knew how the improvement was speeding up when I lately realised I could see my computer screen better without glasses. I can read the use by date on food items again. Yesterday I had a check-up. Glaucoma fears have been removed (eye pressure 12 and 12, Left and Right). Chart tests two full lines better than previously. I even managed to read quite well down the small print close-up card with the left eye, previously a total blur Can you believe that many of the people who helped me most were some of those greedy selfish money-grubbing Junior Doctors being vilified in the media? Wonderfully kind technical staff, theatre and clinic nurses, and a specialist nurse who used the YAG laser on me - more fun than an arcade game. Never once have they failed to protect me from any real pain. I keep reminding myself that many of the procedures and treatments I have had would probably have been impossible say twenty years ago. [/QUOTE]
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