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I am being treated for diabetic retinopathy and the description you made in the post above does not sound like 'floaters' rather it sounds like leaking (bleeding) blood vessels in the retina which need treatment as if left they can cause serious complications. I am not a doctor but after more...

My simple advice would be to remove the big bad ugly carbs from your diet. No white bread, no white rice, no potatoes. Increase green veg, especially spinach and other good leaf veg, eat as much salad as you like and relax. Try rye breads, the german style ones are great tasting and digest very...

Hi, I recently started taking ALA at 1200 mg per day as an antioxidant which claims to help in diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy. I have read a lot of things on the internet, but as usual it all seems to be very contradictory and much of it emanates from one unspecified source and just gets...

I was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic about 18 years ago, and have never had good control during that time. My lifestyle was a little crazy moving all around the world, no consistent healthcare and ignorance about the long term effects of high blood glucose. For many years i have been living and...

Hi, I am a Brit living and working in India. I was diagnosed Type 2 in 1998 and have not been in good control over much of that time. I have lived with Diabetes in the UK, Malaysia, India and China and have found medical treatments and drugs changing at every Doctors visit. Recently I went back...