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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?
 
What Bg results are you getting?
Are you relying on your medicine alone for control, or are you watching your diet too?
Sometimes improved control can cause temporary visual problems as your system adjusts to lower BG.
 
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.
 
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 :D
 
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 :D
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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:
 
yes you definately shouldnt get new glasses for a few mnths :D
 
Ex-alcoholic, impaired glucose tolerance, and lately slipping quietly into Type II, which was signalled by blurring of vision, so snap to most of the above.

Went from careless eating to careful, plus addition of gliclazide to the meds, and blood glucose dropping from typically double-figures to singles, although still not 'normal' as per the book.

Anyway, eyesight now (again, as above), worse than ever, but I'm comforted by the fact that in a few weeks it might stabilise, and then I shall go and contribute to my optician's retirement fund. (Nice bloke, actually, and I don't see money spent with him as wasted at all, although it might be right now!)

Cheers.

Allen, London.
 
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