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<blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 265045" data-attributes="member: 11712"><p>@ hanna</p><p></p><p>My husband had 2 vitrectomy and a reattachment of his retina, sad really has there was no signs or warning, he'd had his eye specialist check up several months before... No signs of dodgy veins, never even had any laser treatment, but the first bleed and only bleed was major which also detached his retina, that as Dec 1999, and they operated several weeks later... The cleared the blood and reattached the retina, he lost part of his peripheral vision and his night vision, not the greatest of problems... He had to stay in hospital for over a week, as he had to lay flat on his back this was to hold the gas bubble that was holding his retina in place in place... Then once home he had to do 'posturing' where he had to lie in certain positions for set period of time and only allowed to sit up for short periods of time... He had one sap with a laser on this eye 3 months after his op..</p><p></p><p>What got me at the time, he'd had changed his shift pattern about 6 months before and started nights, his control went belly up as he struggled to control with 2 jabs a day, and refused to go onto multi daily injections, still wouldn't listen even after this constantly refusing to change regimes... In 2004 he went for his check up, they picked up that his other eye was just about to go so had him straight in to operate on it... This op wasn't so intense, no gas bubble or posturing involved, and a warning that even though they were operating, it was purely to save the sight he had and not to improve it... Amazingly the operation improved his sight he didn't need his glasses after it the surgeon was taken back with this and really chuffed...</p><p></p><p>He finally listened to reason, and change his regime to MDI, and never had a problem since and apart from monitoring the cataracts which is a fore gone conclusion that they would appear due to the operations, he had his first one replace almost 3 years ago... And next month it's likely they will book him in to have his other cataract replaced..</p><p></p><p>@ elmarci..</p><p></p><p>As you see yes hubby went through a bad patch in a short period of time, due to being a stubborn so and so, but once he went on to MDI and we stabilised his control no further problems so try not to worry has with your help (off which you've already made a big difference to him) hopefully you will keep everything at bay...</p><p></p><p>A word of warning, even though yes getting his diabetes under control and at better levels is important, doing this too quickly can aggravate underlying problems and also cause damage... So you may need to bring his levels into a stable range before bringing down into a normal range over several weeks rather than trying to do it all in days or a week...</p><p></p><p>Fortunately for my hubby I'm also a T1 diabetic, so I know what's what so no fooling me, you say that the doc's in the past never warned him that his levels were too high so heading towards problems, if your partner is anything like my hubby, they probably did their best to warn him about his control.. he's gone yeah yeah in an half listening way, then walks out the door, then due to lack of time the doc hasn't giving enough information to how they may improve things, so they've keep doing what they've been doing and nothing really changes....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jopar, post: 265045, member: 11712"] @ hanna My husband had 2 vitrectomy and a reattachment of his retina, sad really has there was no signs or warning, he'd had his eye specialist check up several months before... No signs of dodgy veins, never even had any laser treatment, but the first bleed and only bleed was major which also detached his retina, that as Dec 1999, and they operated several weeks later... The cleared the blood and reattached the retina, he lost part of his peripheral vision and his night vision, not the greatest of problems... He had to stay in hospital for over a week, as he had to lay flat on his back this was to hold the gas bubble that was holding his retina in place in place... Then once home he had to do 'posturing' where he had to lie in certain positions for set period of time and only allowed to sit up for short periods of time... He had one sap with a laser on this eye 3 months after his op.. What got me at the time, he'd had changed his shift pattern about 6 months before and started nights, his control went belly up as he struggled to control with 2 jabs a day, and refused to go onto multi daily injections, still wouldn't listen even after this constantly refusing to change regimes... In 2004 he went for his check up, they picked up that his other eye was just about to go so had him straight in to operate on it... This op wasn't so intense, no gas bubble or posturing involved, and a warning that even though they were operating, it was purely to save the sight he had and not to improve it... Amazingly the operation improved his sight he didn't need his glasses after it the surgeon was taken back with this and really chuffed... He finally listened to reason, and change his regime to MDI, and never had a problem since and apart from monitoring the cataracts which is a fore gone conclusion that they would appear due to the operations, he had his first one replace almost 3 years ago... And next month it's likely they will book him in to have his other cataract replaced.. @ elmarci.. As you see yes hubby went through a bad patch in a short period of time, due to being a stubborn so and so, but once he went on to MDI and we stabilised his control no further problems so try not to worry has with your help (off which you've already made a big difference to him) hopefully you will keep everything at bay... A word of warning, even though yes getting his diabetes under control and at better levels is important, doing this too quickly can aggravate underlying problems and also cause damage... So you may need to bring his levels into a stable range before bringing down into a normal range over several weeks rather than trying to do it all in days or a week... Fortunately for my hubby I'm also a T1 diabetic, so I know what's what so no fooling me, you say that the doc's in the past never warned him that his levels were too high so heading towards problems, if your partner is anything like my hubby, they probably did their best to warn him about his control.. he's gone yeah yeah in an half listening way, then walks out the door, then due to lack of time the doc hasn't giving enough information to how they may improve things, so they've keep doing what they've been doing and nothing really changes.... [/QUOTE]
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