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<blockquote data-quote="the_anticarb" data-source="post: 365633" data-attributes="member: 16982"><p><strong>Re: Diabetic eye screening result</strong></p><p></p><p>All I am saying is, I was where your daughter was 20 years ago. I didn't test my sugars and just pretended I didn't have diabetes, basically. My parents vitually gave up in the end as no matter how many times they told me that there would be prblems in the future I did not listen. There was nothing they could do, no one could save me but myself. It does take on average 20 years for retinopathy to develop to a proliferative stage - this is what the consultant told me. Of course, with poor control this can be sooner, I think around 14 years. So there are relatively few young diabetics with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.These are medical facts, not opinion. The fact that it takes so long for the damage to happen lulls many diabetics in to a false sense of security as they think they are immune to the damage.</p><p></p><p>Sadly for me it took until I had one eye bleeding and in serious danger of going blind before I was able to take responsibility. I sincerely hope this is not the case for your daughter, but at the end of the day you can't do it for her - she has to learn to do it for herself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the_anticarb, post: 365633, member: 16982"] [b]Re: Diabetic eye screening result[/b] All I am saying is, I was where your daughter was 20 years ago. I didn't test my sugars and just pretended I didn't have diabetes, basically. My parents vitually gave up in the end as no matter how many times they told me that there would be prblems in the future I did not listen. There was nothing they could do, no one could save me but myself. It does take on average 20 years for retinopathy to develop to a proliferative stage - this is what the consultant told me. Of course, with poor control this can be sooner, I think around 14 years. So there are relatively few young diabetics with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.These are medical facts, not opinion. The fact that it takes so long for the damage to happen lulls many diabetics in to a false sense of security as they think they are immune to the damage. Sadly for me it took until I had one eye bleeding and in serious danger of going blind before I was able to take responsibility. I sincerely hope this is not the case for your daughter, but at the end of the day you can't do it for her - she has to learn to do it for herself. [/QUOTE]
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