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if proliferative diabetic retinopathy is stable can you do weightlifting? I don’t mean like body builder type and doing heavy deadlifts lifts. Just generic weight lifting /machines to build and maintain muscle. I try looking online and some sites say no not at all. My doctor hasn’t said o...

Was at the hospital yesterday with the consultant for a follow up from when I was in hospital for gastro and dehydration. Whilst I was there he read through previous notes and noticed I recently got diagnosed with advanced retinopathy. I was upset at the appointment as it’s been a lot...

She must of been having a bad day, she seemed off from the start. But will definitely speak to my psychiatrist, who I’ve got to know well and he will agree it would be beneficial. It’s so frustrating. I used them before and found they were so helpful plus I dont always realise when I have hypos...

I asked my doctor about having the libre 2 on prescription, a family member got me 3 months supply to try it out as with my mental health and eating disorder she though it can help seeing what my levels are constantly. It really did help but unfortunately I can afford to buy them especially...

Grandma really is good!, she my biggest support since I lost my mum as a child. I’m trying to remain positive and try and hope my body in general will somewhat recover and stop getting worse. I need to try and stop blaming myself all the time, my friend just told me this, and said I’ve gone...

Thankyou, I worked so hard on my self and just don’t want my vision to get worse and hoping it would improve. I do a lot of drawing and designing - part work and part hobby, I would hate for my vision to deteriorate and not do what I enjoy

Thanks for sharing, so did your vision come back/improve with treatment? How are you doing now?

Did you experience blurry vision? It’s so surprising this can happen

Thankyou, I really hope so too, i hope my vision gets better once i have the treatment. It’s not terrible right now but there definitely blurry changes. I might even phone the hospital to speak to the diabetic nurse regarding this and my medication just to put my anxiety at ease

Thankyou , it’s just a lot to get my head round . My anxiety makes me fear so much about the future, I’m only 29 and now keep thinking I’ll be blind by the time I’m 60. But I’m trying to be positive

I had my diabetic eye screening last June and there was background retinopathy. Today I had to go hospital after a routine eye test picked more damage. Apparently I now have significant retinopathy and macular edema. What I can’t get my head round is that my sugars have been well controlled in...

Thanks everyone for advice and support. I’ve seen doctor again since the second scan. I’ve got have injections 1 a month for 6months and also laser. She said the diabetic retinopathy is significant compared to 6months ago when it was background. Yet my sugars have been stable since then. So...

Thankyou, I’m still at the hospital been here since 8am. Just had another scan. Doctor thinks the diabetic retinopathy got worse and caused diabetic macular edema. But wanted me to have this scan. She then went on about blood sugar control and importance of it on which my grandma stopped her...

Thankyou for you message and sharing your story. I will make sure I go tomorrow, I just don’t want things to get worse

Thankyou I wil go first think tomorrow morning. I just know they will try and say it’s all down to blood sugars and make me feel it’s my fault yet I’ve tried so hard to keep my sugars stable whilst battling my other illnesses. I’ve really realised this past few days how stress can slowly decline...

Thankyou, I have my grandma taking me, im definitely going as I know leaving it longer won’t help my stress levels. I guess I’m just hoping if anyone went through anything similar and was okay :(

I went for my eye test at specsavers a few days ago and they said there were significant changes to my eye health there’s was more little bleeds and fluid build up. She asked about my blood sugars - for 8 months they had come down and been normal since I started mounjaro. I had a diabetic eye...

Thankyou for your message, I’m not under a multi disciplinary team, I go to separate people who deal with that specific thing. I wasn’t under my psychiatrist for the eating disorder it was my overall mental health which I was diagnosed with anxiety depression and c-pdst. I spoke about my eating...

I haven’t tried juice, but guess it’s something I could try as you don’t need a lot probably to bring it up.

Thankyou for your message. Yes mounjaro can, but the doctors said it wasn’t the medication, I had come back from holiday when I was ill the day before flying and was something I ate. I’ve honestly not stopped trying selfncar, I forgot to mention I also have fibromyalgia which causes a lot of...