[QUOTE="Just seems logical to include all potential side effects.[/QUOTE]
Onnecar you are right the health professionals are looking away and ignoring an extreme severe side effect of dropping blood glucose levels suddenly either by a drastic diet or diabetes medication. The severe side effect (up to 6 diopetries) in extremely significant temporary loss of vision peaking at 1-2 weeks after starting medication (which usually coincides with the day you are diagnosed and have no clue about diabetes so you just take the pills no questions asked) and lasting for 2-10 weeks more before returning to somewhat normal levels (in some cases not completely) affecting your work, your life and terrifying you because until this temporary loss of vision disappears you dont really know that is temporary for you. Yet no no one cares about this severe side effects, no one warns newly diagnosed patients about this and health professionbals try to look away or lie about this side effect of the medication. In newly diagnosed patients case case (which was mine 8 weeks ago) we are sitting ducks for this severe loss of vision, since upon being diagnosed we are so scared that we change diet and start to exercize more and at the same time on top of that the physicians are eager to add metformin, glicazide etc without even waiting for the results of the lifestyle changes, compounding the probleme and causing extreme drop in one week in BG and thus the corresponding severe loss of vision. This could be prevented if the BG was responsibly by health professionals lowred slowly in the first 3 weeks upon being diagnosed not in one week. The studies I found show that if BG drop is gradual this temporary loss of vision is less serious and if it does occur the recovery is fast, in 3 weeks instead of up to 10 weeks if the drop in BG is steep in the first week. This is not mentioned in any of the diabetes medication label as a side effects and are neither new patients warned that in one to two weeks of starting meds they will vision will be seriously, up to 600% worse or more, affected. It is a big deal to me as if you go trough this forum you see patient after patient and their family members scarred that their vision suddenly become all blurred and having no clue because health professionals just hide that this is a fact. Some health professionals, in fact the majority even lie that the blurred vision with the retina fine but the lens suddenly having an osmolarity shock is due to high blood glucose levels. It is not the studies clearly show that this is due to the sudden and abrupt drop of BloodGlucose in newly diagnosed patients. The solution would be simple enough, when a health care diagnoses a patient the drop of BG should be gradual and the patient should start first with more exercize and diet and only then, if necesary, change to medications. But they want to start you on meds right away and forever not caring at all that sudden temporary loss of vision can be a significant issue terrifying newly diagnosed patients and perfectly avoidable if the drop im BG is lower. All the best
