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Thank you :) it's good to hear from people, thank you for engaging in discussion with me about this. I'm afraid I get terribly anxious, becoming dizzy and nauseated and hyperventilating (I have counselling specifically for medical anxiety, it has been a very real and persistant thing since...

I've posted a bit of this from my other thread where I was ranting in fear about my retinopathy check-up. My control is poor. Although it's better than six or seven years ago, where I didn't try at all, just avoided hypos in the main and had a few months of skipping novorapid to ensure binging...

Thanks, everyone, for replying. There are so many strong, brave and kind people on these boards. It is heartening. I'm so confused. I mean, what exactly is severe non-proliferative retinopathy? Does it mean loads and loads of bleeding? But not many new vessels growing and that's why I haven't...

Yesterday, I had an appointment at King's College hospital in London and I have 'severe non-proliferative retinopathy'- I just don't know how to approach this. I have to go back in 3 months for my next check and already I feel like I'm on borrowed time, it's just bound to get worse and worse...