I'm 35 leb, diabetic 20 years this summer, so right on time for developing complications!I was uncontrolled for many years, I really struggled with eating issues as a teen and I'm afraid they really got in the way of my diabetes control. It's not that I never thought I'd get complications - I was acutely aware that I might - just the food issues got in the way of control. Sometimes they still can do, although I'm pretty good at taking novorapid to cover extra carbs now.
I'm sorry to hear your other eye has more vessels too, my only consolation at the mo is that the right eye is stable, I would go to pieces if that one went too.
I'm not happy to hear that the younger one is, the faster the vessels grow, it really is mother nature's idea of a bad joke this illness. Also, i have heard that this faulty process where vessels grow where they shouldn't only happens in the retina no where else in the body - I really wouldn't mind if it was happening in a finger or something!
I don't think my eye has bled today, sometimes I see the swirls but I think that's just old swirls circulating, it hasn't got any worse today cloudiness wise in fact as I have been upright for the past few hours it may even be a little clearer.
You're lucky your boss is sympathetic, mine started out sympathetic when I had a lot of laser treatment in the spring, but I handed in my notice a few weeks ago when I got a new job, obviously I hoped the laser would work and I could put all this behind me. Then I go off on the sick so I think he thinks I'm exaggerating it to get out of my notice period - well I wouldn't make this one up!
I've had a bad day today, lots of crying and feeling desperate, no one knows what it's like to go through this and every where you look there is debris and flotsam in your vision. Cheered up a bit now, and feeling slightly more positive, that's the thing with despair it never lasts forever although it can feel it at the time.
Couple of questions for you - how do you know you are having fresh bleeds and not just seeing old blood circulating?
Also, have you had laser whilst it's still bleeding? Or do they not like to do the laser whilst it's still bleeding? (in which case - how can it ever stop?). I am down for laser clinic but not sure if they will turn me away if it is still bleeding -will they make an assessment when they see me and decide there and then?
I'm hoping my last four bouts of laser will still be having an effect on my left eye and close up this vessel soon without the need for much more, I'm scared of losing my driving license but after having this bleed I'm even more scared of more bleeds.
Thanks and good luck x