Hiya, yes, I started to "get better" last year. I did see flachrs and floaters but just dismissed them. Anyway, last October I saw the doc with what I thought was conjunctivitis to cyut a long story a bit shorter, it turned out that I had proliferstive retinopathy, neovasculisation and secondary glaucoma caused by the neovasculisation. I was admitted in to hospital and had laser work done. They had to conk me out because i was so scared! Anyway, I've had laser since then ( i managed to stay awake) and I'm currently having eye injections to help shrink back those little vessels. They say that it was because i got my bloods down quickly...nut me not going for check ups didn't help either. I know it's hard not to be scared. I completely empathize with you on this!