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MrsGruffy I hope you get better. Your situation seems to be different than mine and the one that initiated the post. Your vision got worse on diabetes, with high blood sugar undected, so BEFORE and not AFTER you were diagnosed and started on meds and dropping the BG like it happened to me. I...

Ok thank you I am assuming when you say you were OK again meaning you return to similar levels (on average of distance and short) before you were diagnosed and before you start taking the meds and dropping BG. Diabetes especially if undected for long years can of course lead to damage in...

Thank you all above especially buffdaddy for starting the post. The same thing is happening to me now. Loss of vision and vision blurred two weeks after being diagnosed with diabetes and lowering steeply blood glucose from 13 to 8. Mine has not gone away yet but it only has been a week so it is...

Apparently, this issue of complications of osmolarity in the eye with lowering of levels of glucose has been researched for example in Mechanism of worsening diabetic retinopathy with rapid lowering of blood glucose: the synergistic hypothesis. Jingi et al. BMC Endocr Disord. 2017; 17: 63. In...

Thank you so much Mr Pot for giving me a specific number of weeks that it took for your vision to stabilize which was 6 weeks. Can you please be more specific when you say stabilize do you mean you also noticed a reduction in eyesight once you dropped the BG but then it improved a bit within 6...

Thank you Mike D. Yes see an ophtalomogist or optometrist after you're diagnosed with diabetes to prevent for future or check current retinopathyis the standard advice. The point is that the advice is always the same even when facts contradict it as in this thread where people like me and the...

Thank you EHB720. That is the standard advice and the mantra in the guidelines, high blood glucose sugar can impair your vision and/or make you blind, so as soon as you are diagnosed with diabetes start on metformin and drop those glucose levels right away to prevent lost of eyesight or...

Hi thank you so much for this post very useful as there are not many posts on what I am also experiencing blurry vision not with high blood sugar but when they drop due to life style changes / metformin.... this was about 3 years ago. So we only had a snapshot of what happened to your vision of...