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Anyone else have fluctuating eyesight prescription with high BS?

On seeing the eye person, the diabetic nurse was very apologetic - I'm down for an appointment in NOVEMBER !! Not only the NHS you have to wait in ...


Newbie T2. Age 55, from London living in Denmark, 3 children in teens.
Diagnosed T2 13 June 2014 with fasting BG level 16 :-(
LCHF with metering + ex + Metformin: from 13 June 2014
 
Hi Lucy, prescription much the same, slightly stronger due to normal deterioration with age rather than the diabetes. I am sure you will be fine in a couple of weeks, so don't worry.

Take care and let us know how you get on.

Marilyn x
 
Eyes fairly suddenly decided to stop their little dance, and after 3 weeks' near-perfect vision ('twas lovely), they settled dow more or less overnight to last year's glasses. Which is fine.

So it took about 3 /4 weeks, then they settled to normal BS levels.

Lucy.
 
LucySW said:
I'm in my first week of knowing that I have T2D (diagnosed suddenly a week ago after a blood test to see if I was short on Vitamin D - huge shock). I dropped carbs immediately and have been eating smaller portions just because I was so motivated to get on with it, and my BS is seemingly down from 16 to (at times) 11, which has to be good. But I want to ask about other people's experience of fluctating eyesight.

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Lucy
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Yup, all that's pretty normal. The glucose levels adjust the viscosity of the fluid in your eyes, changing refractive indices, lens length and that's where the fluctuation happens.

I had to get specs as soon as I got out of hospital because of the blurred vision. My doc was all with the tut-tutting but I insisted I had to get specs since I live alone and needed to be able to see clearly. It seems the standard thinking is not to go looking for a glasses prescription until five years after being diagnosed with diabetes.
 
Belzedar said:
... It seems the standard thinking is not to go looking for a glasses prescription until five years after being diagnosed with diabetes.
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Five years??!!****

My God. Another instance of doctors not being taught to minister to human beings ...
 
I've had blurred vision for ages and nobody had ever even looked into diabetes at the time. they blamed wrong prescription, glasses made wrong etc, but now I wonder if it was actually uncontrolled BG that was the problem. It's all very interesting.

And 5 years? Way too long, you'd want a glaucoma check and eye-health check if nothing else. Surely?
 
I'm in my fourth week since diagnosis and Iike you I've had to wear my old glasses as the new ones I got 6months ago are too strong! I get blurred vision when my glucose levels are too high, that's how I know.
Any idea how long I should leave it until I get my vision tested again folks?
:)
Thanks in advance
 
They test mine yearly , I also have to go for camera at back of eyes which i hate but has to be done and they usually send for me
 
Drummer mum said:
Any idea how long I should leave it until I get my vision tested again folks?
:)
Thanks in advance
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I would guess, wait until your BS levels have been stable for six weeks.

I'm asking Specsavers to do mine again in the same frames. They should agree, let's see.

Lucy
 
Thanks Lucy. It's all a bit of a shock to be honest so just getting my head around it!
Will wait a while until I have my eyes checked.
 
Yes, longer the better. But my eyes have been consistent since they settled down c three weeks ago, after about five weeks of weirdness as my BS dropped. Just wait till you have a sense that nothing's changing.
 
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