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Eye screening now sick with worry

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I had my retinal screening on a Tuesday and a letter arrived on Friday the same week to advise me that there were no problems.

At our screening centre the images are on view as soon as they are captured, I can see that there is is nothing horrendous in the images.
 
Ambersilva said:
I had my retinal screening on a Tuesday and a letter arrived on Friday the same week to advise me that there were no problems.

At our screening centre the images are on view as soon as they are captured, I can see that there is is nothing horrendous in the images.
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Brilliant.
 
Ambersilva said:
I had my retinal screening on a Tuesday and a letter arrived on Friday the same week to advise me that there were no problems.

At our screening centre the images are on view as soon as they are captured, I can see that there is is nothing horrendous in the images.
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Hi please may I ask you you say on view, that is what is worrying me she could view them she was looking on a laptop she said that when they are sent off they are put on a bigger screen . She said they send them off in order of green amber red and then they are looked at in that order. She did say if they were her eyes she wouldn't be worried ?
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
@Sharon Anne When I had my eye screening done at the hospital in February, the technician took the pic then said I would receive the results in two weeks by letter. It was not her job to comment on the picture. I think you would feel a difference if you had a problem so please try not to worry. Easier said than done, I know. Be sure to let us know how it turns out :)
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Thank you x I think that's the thing my vision does feel different but the eye causality Dr I saw said it will untill my eyes settle. I have so far seen two eye Drs who looked at the back of my eyes and my opticsion none of them had any worries .
 
Sharon, I'd hold onto the fact that she would be happy if it was a pic of her eyes, though given your concern, nothing will help till you get the letter in your hand.
Hang in there, we wish you well
 
Sharon Anne said:
Thank you x I think that's the thing my vision does feel different but the eye causality Dr I saw said it will untill my eyes settle. I have so far seen two eye Drs who looked at the back of my eyes and my opticsion none of them had any worries .
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My eyes were blurry at diagnosis but that was due to high bg levels. Not so bad now that my bg control has improved. They do settle. I would take comfort from the fact that two docs and an optician are not worried.
 
andy williams said:
A little clue - the answer to your conundrum is in the lines

If you are diabetic some deterioration will show and over time it will be progressive - HOWEVER - and this is the important bit, the damage done is entirely linked to how well you manage your diabetes,

Look after yourself and you will still get problems as you get old but they will be nowhere near as severe and far easier to manage.
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Andy

I have had type 2 diabetes for 15 years and am overweight. I do not low carb and my exercise is walking a very small dog for 20 mins a day. My retinopathy checks are always clear and I have no macular degeneration. How then do I fit into your statement that if I am diabetic some deterioration will show and it will be progressive? By the way, I have no other complications of diabetes.

I think you medical advice is a little off which is why we prefer posters not to deal with wild generalisations.

Hoping you can see the sense of our stance.

Doug
 
I have been invited to the hospital next week for a follow up to my last retinopathy test. I'm not too worried as yet as it means that okay something has changed, but they want to investigate further, tell me to get my bg down, which I am now trying to or give me some help. I am a long way yet from serious problems I'm sure. However this part of the nhs system seems to be working so thats good.

By the way any little temporary blurring you msy experience is not because your retina has packed in. If your retina is damaged you just can't see in that spot. The blur is most likely due to glucose getting into the eye fluid and causing the rays of light to not bend to a focus on your retina. Hence the blur. As your bg goes down, your eye will remove the glucose and the blur should dissipate. However you need to get the bg down snd stay down or the blur may return and we dont want that.

So dont fret, do what you can about the bg level, let your body do its thing and whatever the result of your ret test know that it'll be for the best.

Personally Im sure you will be okay, but its a warning to us all- this diabetes thing is no joke, its deadly serious.
 
Sarah trust me I thank you for questioning the inacuacy, I am just about keeping one witherd leg in front of the other and the support you have all given me is more than anyone could ask for. I feel like I belong somewhere and that's down to you guys. When I say I feel **** now I guess I feel pretty unattractive with everything , I even havecoldsorepopping up like no tomorrow x never had such awful skin.
 
Thank you my BG seem tone doing okay I think for saying I am only on diet. I am doing them every two hrs after a meal and not seen anything higher than the odd 8 but morning fasting between 5.6 and 6 so whilst I don't take mine one hr after I presume these ar good. I normally end the day after my evening meal at about 7.6 .
Must share this with you guys my young son as just said to ( knows I am not sleeping ) Mum you need to remember that regar slews of the screening today in the past few months you have seen your opticsion two eye causality DRs who both looked at the back of my eyes. He's Said that would reassure him . Such a calm young man he also said he misses his Mum as I am always so tense
 
Sharon Anne said:
Hi please may I ask you you say on view, that is what is worrying me she could view them she was looking on a laptop she said that when they are sent off they are put on a bigger screen . She said they send them off in order of green amber red and then they are looked at in that order. She did say if they were her eyes she wouldn't be worried ?
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At our screening centre in a small room, all four images are on view at the same time and are quite big. The operator is facing the wall when operating the computer and viewing the images. The only problem I have during the procedure is locating the blinking light for the second and fourth images having been blinded by the first and third flashes!
 
bump !

I have now been to the opthalmologistythingywhatsit... eye doctor. Actually it was a very capable nurse person, I forget her title but she was very good.

Apparently a little white spot had been noticed on my last retinopathy scan near the macula (the yellow spot, the site of central vision, the spot where the eye focuses...) They wanted to know what it was. I had a special laser scanner which basically took pictures of the layers of the eye as though it was an italian (the thin stuff) bacon slicer - quite astonishing how tech works sometimes.

So we were able to look at the layers from the vitreous fluid in the eyeball down through to the sclerotic (the white stuff of the eye ball) in the general area of the macula. It was amazing to see the eyeball layers from this perspective.

She explained that she was looking for any leakage of fluid into the layers that could cause the layers to separate and this causes major problems.

She honed in on the white spot she had seen and determined that it was a cholesterol deposit. There didn't seem to be any leakage, (like having a bubble of fluid in the layer. However I am to go back in four months to review it.

She explained that obviously I needed to get my cholesterol down, was pleased that I was working on my bg but wanted me to get my blood pressure down. i am in the 140s - 150s/ 90s. She explained that excess pressure can cause fluids to leak more readily from the capillaries and other blood vessels. We discussed statins - I referred her to this site! (I do need to think how to get bp down in a non statin way).

I did have some background retinopathy, but not a concern at this point.

Hope this helps :)
 
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