Newbie alert!!

Hi all, i've just been diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes (3 weeks ago)

To be honest i'd always assumed i would be sooner or later as both parents are diabetic (so its all their fault!!) I'm not the sort to get to bothered by it, i'm on 2 Metformin (which is about to be upped to 3) a day and just got to eat a bit healthier than i used to (and i've spent my life living on choccy, cakes & biscuits!! :cry: )

Thought i'd join up here though just to keep up with latest news etc. Plus, of course, its better to talk to/hear from people that have the same thing rather than someone at work/down the pub that knows nothing about it.

One thing i have noticed already is that, since i've been taking the tablets and cutting right down on sugar, my eyesight is a bit blurred. I have varifocal lens' and the distance and middle distance view is blurred and i find myself craning my head back to look through the bottom of the lens which should be for close up work! Everything is much clearer now through this bit of the lens.

Anyone got/had similar?

Bg was 15.4 when diagnosed, checked it myself a few days ago and it was down to 8.

Taking the tablets and have cut right down on sugar. Trying to eat a better/healthier diet, more fruit and veg etc.

Vision problem only started as Bg started to fall.

totsy said:

hya and welcome,
often when sugars have been running high then fall quickly you can suffer from blurred vision, it should go when you are more stable

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Thanks totsy, thats good to hear. Had visions (pun intended!) of getting new glasses not cheap!) and then finding that my vision changed again quickly requiring yet another new pair of specs!! :shock: