Hi there!
I am new here. A little background, I was just recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes this past March. My AC1 was very high at a 12. Well, that certainly made me wake up and take charge of my health with eating better, waking a lot, etc. I also take Met Fomin. I got my ac1 down to 6 now, yay! I thought that was awesome until….
While out waking one day this august I noticed weird little black tiny dots. I got into just a nornal eye clinic to be checked. He said I had a large retinal hemorrhage and sent my to an eye specialist. To be honest he was kind of vague about it all, and I was even more confused as he never fully told me this was 100 percent whatever it was. Said we could do injections. I got one injection and seemed ok, nine days later I had a pretty big bleed in my left eye. (The first time ever) so naturally I went to the hospital where they could not help and told me to see specialist again. So next day different one looked at me and said the medicine is working as it is shrinking the vessels and sometimes some can break. Alright… still a bit confused thought this was all normal but after googling a lot I was the one that found all this diabetic retinopathy stuff and of course got worried as figured I deff have PDR. So, I saw him together to clarify everything, etc. mind you the blood has gone some out of my visions but I still see murky water, etc. He said that should clear maybe a month or so. Anyways, so he said I have advanced PDR and he wants to do more injections and then a laser to “clean it all up”. I ask him if my vision would get worse and he claims not at all that we can reverse this and that I won’t go blind and that there should be anymore bleeds.
I just don’t know if I trust him the way he is acting like this isn’t serious yet all the stuff I have read about advanced PDR deff is. Any advice? Have any of you had good outcomes after treatments where it did in fact stop you from even having another bleed? I am so new to all of this and know I must always control my blood sugars now tightly which I have. Do you think maybe in a few months that my eyes could improve because of all this changes?? Also now on a BO med too.
Thank you much
I am new here. A little background, I was just recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes this past March. My AC1 was very high at a 12. Well, that certainly made me wake up and take charge of my health with eating better, waking a lot, etc. I also take Met Fomin. I got my ac1 down to 6 now, yay! I thought that was awesome until….
While out waking one day this august I noticed weird little black tiny dots. I got into just a nornal eye clinic to be checked. He said I had a large retinal hemorrhage and sent my to an eye specialist. To be honest he was kind of vague about it all, and I was even more confused as he never fully told me this was 100 percent whatever it was. Said we could do injections. I got one injection and seemed ok, nine days later I had a pretty big bleed in my left eye. (The first time ever) so naturally I went to the hospital where they could not help and told me to see specialist again. So next day different one looked at me and said the medicine is working as it is shrinking the vessels and sometimes some can break. Alright… still a bit confused thought this was all normal but after googling a lot I was the one that found all this diabetic retinopathy stuff and of course got worried as figured I deff have PDR. So, I saw him together to clarify everything, etc. mind you the blood has gone some out of my visions but I still see murky water, etc. He said that should clear maybe a month or so. Anyways, so he said I have advanced PDR and he wants to do more injections and then a laser to “clean it all up”. I ask him if my vision would get worse and he claims not at all that we can reverse this and that I won’t go blind and that there should be anymore bleeds.
I just don’t know if I trust him the way he is acting like this isn’t serious yet all the stuff I have read about advanced PDR deff is. Any advice? Have any of you had good outcomes after treatments where it did in fact stop you from even having another bleed? I am so new to all of this and know I must always control my blood sugars now tightly which I have. Do you think maybe in a few months that my eyes could improve because of all this changes?? Also now on a BO med too.
Thank you much
