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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitedoc" data-source="post: 1791319" data-attributes="member: 468714"><p>Guy in Oz, 51 years on insulin. My understanding is that high blood sugars affected the lenses in the eyes. Sometimes diabetes is picked up by the optician or eye specialist because someone's new glasses prescription has changed more than would be expected. If someone's BSLs have been high for long enough the eyes and brain adjust to the situation. A fairly dramatic change in blood sugar over say days will upset the the long term adjustment that has taken place. Given enough time at the new blood sugar levels the  person's eyes and brain readjust and the vision improves. Just do not go out and get new glasses now etc because they will be pretty useless after the new adjustment your eyes and brain makes. It took me about 2 weeks for my vision to improve after starting insulin but I reckon about one to two months for my vision to finally stabilise.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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