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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
[/QUThank you Hun