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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pharmaceutics" data-source="post: 1771622" data-attributes="member: 473234"><p>Thank you all above especially buffdaddy for starting the post. The same thing is happening to me now. Loss of vision and vision blurred two weeks after being diagnosed with diabetes and lowering steeply blood glucose from 13 to 8.  Mine has not gone away yet but it only has been a week so it is good to hear folks here saying they got their vision back. Apparently, this issue of complications of osmolarity in the eye with lowering of levels of glucose has been researched for example in Mechanism of worsening diabetic retinopathy with rapid lowering of blood glucose: the synergistic hypothesis. Jingi et al. BMC Endocr Disord. 2017; 17: 63. In this article with insuline not meformin as it just happened to me and others in this thread on metformin but the point being vision in this research overview got worse in many cases with rapid decline in blood glucose levels. Plus, I also found that some national EU labels of products with metformin do warn that once you take the medication and reduce your glucose blood levels you may get blurry vision. Despite this, the advice keeps on being the same by clinical professionals on this area: you were seeing fine we lowered your blood glucose levels to protect your vision when you are older, as an unbelievable negative trade off right away now your vision in less than a week in medication deteriorated immensely but that is a good sign, what was abnormal was before the good vision (??) with high blood sugar, and so reduce the blood glucose levels even further even though the concomitant steep loss in eye sight paralelled the steep drop in blood glucose. I really appreciate the fact that the above 3 people "came to the rescue" here with advice about deteriorating - blurred vision after blood glucose levels drop fast after diabetes diagnosis due to meds-life style changes (this when lowering BG was supposed to prevent vision loss). If you and more people can elaborate on this issue would be great. Frankly, I am scarred and dont know what to do. I talked with my GP and diabetologist and they are puzzled. The diabetologist did mention osmolarity changes but says it doesnt see this happening frequently. Well it happened to me and I shared this and other threads or even general advice that recognizes this as an issue in labels of medications for oral antidiabetics. As of now the diabetologist agreed with stopping the metformin and stick to the strict life style changes measures I have undertaken in the last two weeks since being diagnosed with diabetes, diet and walking twice a day for 30-60 minutes which already resulted in weight loss from 86 to 80 Kg, of course watching that BG (now at 8.1 mmol/L) doesnt go up too much now that the metformin is not there to help it lower. I really dont know what to do I took the metformin religiously for the past two weeks (500 mg every AM) plus did all the exercize to protect myself from injury from diabetes although I was feeling otherwise fine until then (except for being thirsty which is what prompted me to the BG test) and now in less than 2 weeks of doing the right thing according to guidelines of lowering BG I am actually very injured in my eyesight and suddenly. I hope as some of you say above that eyesight will indeed stabilize within a week to 6 weeks (not sure if that means going back to at least closer to normal before blood levels dropped or just stop from getting worse every day as of now two weeks into lowering BG)....</p></blockquote><p></p>

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