Hi everyone, first post here so a little background.
48 years old male, non smoker (never), barely drinks (bottle of cider once or twice a week), probably a couple of stone overweight. No excercise at all (I know!) and taking
3 * 500 Metformin Daily, plus 2 Actos, and 40mg Simvastin at night. Recently added Rampril and Zandip for high BP, which is just starting to work, average results till a few days ago for last few months probably around 185/100 sometimes a little higher, but poss doctors surgery related rises as always a little lower on home Boots machine.
Have been Type 2 since 2005, and have had all the check ups every 6 months, last hAbc1 result from doctors is 7.5 so not terrible and not great either.
Until a few weeks ago, all results from Eye photos each year were clear, this year got the "background retinopathy" letter, no treatment required etc etc.
OK, so I have been using those cheapish reader glasses for a few years, they did the job and were cheap enough to throw away if damaged and have lots of sets laying around the place to save carrying them around. I went for eye test every year and prescription never changed, 0.5 in left eye, virtually nothing in right eye.
This year after the letter, I decided to ditch the cheap readers, and get proper glasses again, went to Asda, and precript is 1.25 left eye, and about 1.0 right eye, so I was right, I needed new specs.
This is still for close up and reading work, still pretty good distance, and prescipt for this was so slight he advised not worrying until next year for distance and/or bi or vari focals (which I think would annoy the hell out of me!)
At this eye exam, he did the basic shine bright lights and said it all looks clear, checked I had had the photos done each year and did not seem bothered by the background retinopathy thing.
At last, my question
Woke up last Wednesday, for some reason, closed my right eye and read computer screen with left only, and the text was not only very blurry, but straight lines were a bit wavy, and its like I can still read the text, but bits of it are faded, not always whole words sometimes just a letter or two.
So, off to the doctors, he basically panics and sends me to hospital acute eye clinc session same day. After changing my pants, I attend, and get a basic eye test, I feel my left eye has gone downhill badly even from eye exam at Asda a few weeks prior.
So, some drops in the eyes, and a bit of a wait, and a doctor runs an exam using the scope and the bright shiny light thing, nice lady, but French or spanish and not great English :-( (albeit better than my ability to either speak...or even identify hers
Ok, all looks OK she says, lets go do another test. This time, a posh machine with a nice green star to look at, does right eye, all OK she says, yep I sort of know that already....
Left eye, and I get the dreaded "ahha", sort of the noise a plumber makes when you know its bad.
She says I have "something wrong" with my left eye (huh, did she think I LIKE to spend my day off in hospital, and to follow her.
She goes into a room with (something) Specialist on the door, leaving me in the hallway. She starts talking to the chap, who does not know I am outside the door, I get fed up with this and just walked in, I got the impression he was a bit upset with her for just leaving me their, and he asked me in, and decided to have a look himself with his scope and bright lights.
They decided that indeed something was showing, but were not sure what it was. I heard him say to her "its not a tear, or a hole".
Now in most walks of life I am pretty confident and say my piece, but stupidly here, I meekly accepted an appointment for a Fluorescein Angiography and that is set for 12th January, so not too long to wait.
Now a few days on, I am worrying myself sick, making myself feel really bad, so I called them today, and a nurse went and found my notes and spoke to a doctor, the outcome is basically that there is a "little bit of swelling" at the back of the eye, and they need the fancy photo thing using a dye to find out what is really wrong.
So, have I done the question yet? Oh, no.
Have any of you had anything similar, and if so what was the outcome?
Thanks for reading.
Kev
48 years old male, non smoker (never), barely drinks (bottle of cider once or twice a week), probably a couple of stone overweight. No excercise at all (I know!) and taking
3 * 500 Metformin Daily, plus 2 Actos, and 40mg Simvastin at night. Recently added Rampril and Zandip for high BP, which is just starting to work, average results till a few days ago for last few months probably around 185/100 sometimes a little higher, but poss doctors surgery related rises as always a little lower on home Boots machine.
Have been Type 2 since 2005, and have had all the check ups every 6 months, last hAbc1 result from doctors is 7.5 so not terrible and not great either.
Until a few weeks ago, all results from Eye photos each year were clear, this year got the "background retinopathy" letter, no treatment required etc etc.
OK, so I have been using those cheapish reader glasses for a few years, they did the job and were cheap enough to throw away if damaged and have lots of sets laying around the place to save carrying them around. I went for eye test every year and prescription never changed, 0.5 in left eye, virtually nothing in right eye.
This year after the letter, I decided to ditch the cheap readers, and get proper glasses again, went to Asda, and precript is 1.25 left eye, and about 1.0 right eye, so I was right, I needed new specs.
This is still for close up and reading work, still pretty good distance, and prescipt for this was so slight he advised not worrying until next year for distance and/or bi or vari focals (which I think would annoy the hell out of me!)
At this eye exam, he did the basic shine bright lights and said it all looks clear, checked I had had the photos done each year and did not seem bothered by the background retinopathy thing.
At last, my question
Woke up last Wednesday, for some reason, closed my right eye and read computer screen with left only, and the text was not only very blurry, but straight lines were a bit wavy, and its like I can still read the text, but bits of it are faded, not always whole words sometimes just a letter or two.
So, off to the doctors, he basically panics and sends me to hospital acute eye clinc session same day. After changing my pants, I attend, and get a basic eye test, I feel my left eye has gone downhill badly even from eye exam at Asda a few weeks prior.
So, some drops in the eyes, and a bit of a wait, and a doctor runs an exam using the scope and the bright shiny light thing, nice lady, but French or spanish and not great English :-( (albeit better than my ability to either speak...or even identify hers
Ok, all looks OK she says, lets go do another test. This time, a posh machine with a nice green star to look at, does right eye, all OK she says, yep I sort of know that already....
Left eye, and I get the dreaded "ahha", sort of the noise a plumber makes when you know its bad.
She says I have "something wrong" with my left eye (huh, did she think I LIKE to spend my day off in hospital
, and to follow her.She goes into a room with (something) Specialist on the door, leaving me in the hallway. She starts talking to the chap, who does not know I am outside the door, I get fed up with this and just walked in, I got the impression he was a bit upset with her for just leaving me their, and he asked me in, and decided to have a look himself with his scope and bright lights.
They decided that indeed something was showing, but were not sure what it was. I heard him say to her "its not a tear, or a hole".
Now in most walks of life I am pretty confident and say my piece, but stupidly here, I meekly accepted an appointment for a Fluorescein Angiography and that is set for 12th January, so not too long to wait.
Now a few days on, I am worrying myself sick, making myself feel really bad, so I called them today, and a nurse went and found my notes and spoke to a doctor, the outcome is basically that there is a "little bit of swelling" at the back of the eye, and they need the fancy photo thing using a dye to find out what is really wrong.
So, have I done the question yet? Oh, no.
Have any of you had anything similar, and if so what was the outcome?
Thanks for reading.
Kev
