- Messages
- 136
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
One of the negatives of diabetes is the adverse effects it has on eye sight. My diabetes was so unhelpful, that the focus of my eyes varied daily, such that I had an ice cream container filled with cheap pairs of spectacles to allow me to pick a pair for use each day. My eyesight was also tested by a slight cataract in the right eye, and a heavy duty cataract in my left eye. After attending QEII hospital in Welwyn, my cataract was deemed suitable for removal (I was within days of voluntarily stopping driving, as I found it difficult to see ahead and the kerbside at the same time). My left cataract was removed on the 11th November in a 30 minute operation, under local anasthetic, and after its removal, an artificial lens replaced the faulty one. Today, I am back to driving normally and (tic!) reading number plates on aeroplanes. For the benefit of future recipients, the whole operation was painless, and the only discomfort was having to look at a "bright" light, whilst the surgeon completes the task. Because I had Lasik treatment in 2004, the consultant required me to contact that surgeon to obtain the pre-Lasik treatment prescription records so that calculations for the cataract treatment could be computed using those.