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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jopar" data-source="post: 117417" data-attributes="member: 11712">To put some perspective on this, less than 5% of diabetics suffer server impairment of vision...  Yes no-one wants to be in that 5% club  The low figure is generally down to what can now be done to maintain working vision in the diabetic.  And with screening for diabetics I should imagine that this figure might even become lower as problems are picked up and treated a lot earlierMaintaining good control of your diabetes is the best way forward, as it's far from proven that supplements are as effective as the sellers say they are..But to give you some notion to what can be done, 11 years ago, my husband (T1) suffered a very nasty hemorrage in one eye, this several years before would have left him blind in that eye but they operated on it, removing the blood and reactaching the retina, he did lose some side vision but nothing that would stop him from driving, if he did drive..  since op he had one lot of laser treament not long after, but no more trouble with it since apart from having the cataract replaced last year, he did have a blip with his other eye a couple of years later but within the last 6 years both eyes have been stable and no treatment necessary ..</blockquote>

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