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Jack412's comment is spot on. Your prescription can go all over the place when your sugars are a bit haywire. Are you saying your prescription has gone down from -4.20DS??

Hi, There is a lens inside your eye and when your sugars are all over the shop it swells up! The lens gets thinner or fatter depending what you are trying to focus on, so you can imagine if it is all swollen it stuggles to do this so your vision won't be particulary good! It can vary from...

Hi, The artificial tears you have been given are unlikely to solve your vision problems. In some cases a dry cornea can cause vision problems and fake tears help but It sounds like you have dry eye, which will cause itchy sore hot eyes. Try a hot towel over you eyes for 10 minutes, twice a...

Hi, It could be a few things, For diabetics the natural lens inside your eye that allows us to focus on things can become swollen (with proteins and fluid) and will make things out of focus. If your sugars are sporadicly controlled this can be a factor. For most people it will just settle...

Hi, The good thing now is that I would imagine he is being monitored more closely and in all honestly most diabetics will have probably have a wee bit of back ground diabetic retinopathy. Everyone is different. I have had people who are fairly poorly controlled and have very good eyes to...

Firstly if you are concerned, seek help via Optician. You could have dry eyes which are iritating you and it is just by chance you have had a recent visit to the DRS. The Glaucoma type you were warned about is acute angle closure glaucoma. When this happens the presure in the eye rises...

Hi, Hundreds, if not thousands of these are done at eye clinics up and down the UK everyday. You may feel a slight presure on your screla (the white of your eye) when the needle is inserted and you may notice the medication floating then settling quickly in your eye. You may also have a new...

Your Doctor should tell you if you need to inform the DVLA and then the DVLA may request you get tested with a Visual Field test and for your Visual acuity (Reading letters from a chart) to be recorded. If you pass the test you will be granted X amount of time till you need tested again. If you...

Re: DVLA revoked driving licence - any advice? The reason why you have to report to the DVLA is because the likely hood is that you wont notice your vison getting worse unless it is sudden. I have seen many people who say my vision is perfect and when you test them it is clearly not. Most of...

Re: DVLA revoked driving licence - any advice? Sorry for the late reply, i have not checked up on here for a while! I take it your husband will have his results now, so my response may be made redundant! It is hard to say with out acctually seeing the test print out. 3 Points on the horizontal...

Re: DVLA revoked driving licence - any advice? Hello, I came across this site by accident. I found it interesting what you folks were talking about. I work in an Eye Clinic, i carry out many of the DVLA tests. If i can be of any assistance please ask. My own personal opinion is that yes...