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diabetic retinopathy
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sugarless sue
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If you can get your Blood sugars down to below 7 or lower it can help your eyes recover but it depends on the amount of damage already done.
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As sue says, if you can keep good control of your BG's then hopefully you won't get problems in the first place with retinopathy...
With general retinopathy a lot of the problems, growing viens and small bleeds can be lazered maintaining the sight, even big bleeds can be operated on with high sucess rates...
How ever if like me, who in one way has some retinopathy but very little considereing that I've been diabetic for 20 years... My problems started with my control becoming unstable which had a brought on a slighley increased amount of retinopathy but which wasn't a problem or needed any form of treatment at all.. A change to the insulin pump and regaining my control aggervated the my retinopathy slightly... In the main not causing too much of a increase and in the main with the exception of one eye, the damage doesn't at the moment have a effect on my sight, and hasn't changed in two months... But it could do if this had been in a different part of the eye I would of had this impending problem lasered out yesterday with mimium of fuss...
But because of it's location makes lazering very difficult and high risk... As any deviation from the spot where the lazer needs to hit, or inaccurate amount of power of the lazer would actually blind that eye... So it has been decided that it is far more safer to leave well alone at present, just monitored it until the point that the risks are if a attempt isn't made with the lazer then I'm going to go blind anyway...
With general retinopathy a lot of the problems, growing viens and small bleeds can be lazered maintaining the sight, even big bleeds can be operated on with high sucess rates...
How ever if like me, who in one way has some retinopathy but very little considereing that I've been diabetic for 20 years... My problems started with my control becoming unstable which had a brought on a slighley increased amount of retinopathy but which wasn't a problem or needed any form of treatment at all.. A change to the insulin pump and regaining my control aggervated the my retinopathy slightly... In the main not causing too much of a increase and in the main with the exception of one eye, the damage doesn't at the moment have a effect on my sight, and hasn't changed in two months... But it could do if this had been in a different part of the eye I would of had this impending problem lasered out yesterday with mimium of fuss...
But because of it's location makes lazering very difficult and high risk... As any deviation from the spot where the lazer needs to hit, or inaccurate amount of power of the lazer would actually blind that eye... So it has been decided that it is far more safer to leave well alone at present, just monitored it until the point that the risks are if a attempt isn't made with the lazer then I'm going to go blind anyway...
