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<blockquote data-quote="Annb" data-source="post: 1738278" data-attributes="member: 25851"><p>My eyes are beginning to change. I have been diabetic for many years now (don't know how many) and diagnosed about 9 years back. My sight has always been good but in recent years been getting a bit blurred when reading - so reading glasses. I thought that was all the work I did with a computer screen. But that was all, so no real issues (I am getting on, of course, so it could very well be normal degeneration). In September 2017 I had an operation to remove a tumour from my parathyroid which, unfortunately involved cutting away some of my thyroid (intrathyroid parathyroid). Since then I have had a series of health issues, infection, flu, infection and (fairly inevitably) under-active thyroid. So - another medication to add to the rest - levothyroxine. I was feeling pretty awful so the doctor increased the levo, dose. Now I find that my sugar levels are up, I'm full of pain and my eyesight flickers and is less acute than it was only a few months ago; so much so that I feel wary about driving. They have also found a problem with my kidneys, which was the only part of me working properly until recently.</p><p></p><p>Luckily, I just had a letter today asking me to make an appointment for my diabetic retinopathy test, so I will talk to the optician about this eye thing. I hope I won't need new glasses because I just had a huge bill in for repairs for my car and it will be a month or so at least before I can afford them.</p><p></p><p>I can't help thinking that these new problems are associated with the increased levothyroxine and can only hope it will all settle down when my body gets used to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Annb, post: 1738278, member: 25851"] My eyes are beginning to change. I have been diabetic for many years now (don't know how many) and diagnosed about 9 years back. My sight has always been good but in recent years been getting a bit blurred when reading - so reading glasses. I thought that was all the work I did with a computer screen. But that was all, so no real issues (I am getting on, of course, so it could very well be normal degeneration). In September 2017 I had an operation to remove a tumour from my parathyroid which, unfortunately involved cutting away some of my thyroid (intrathyroid parathyroid). Since then I have had a series of health issues, infection, flu, infection and (fairly inevitably) under-active thyroid. So - another medication to add to the rest - levothyroxine. I was feeling pretty awful so the doctor increased the levo, dose. Now I find that my sugar levels are up, I'm full of pain and my eyesight flickers and is less acute than it was only a few months ago; so much so that I feel wary about driving. They have also found a problem with my kidneys, which was the only part of me working properly until recently. Luckily, I just had a letter today asking me to make an appointment for my diabetic retinopathy test, so I will talk to the optician about this eye thing. I hope I won't need new glasses because I just had a huge bill in for repairs for my car and it will be a month or so at least before I can afford them. I can't help thinking that these new problems are associated with the increased levothyroxine and can only hope it will all settle down when my body gets used to it. [/QUOTE]
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