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If it's just due to high blood sugars (as opposed to other longer term retinal damage due to unmanaged diabetes) then yes it should recover when blood sugars go down. The blurriness is caused by elevated sugars getting into the eye and changing the refractive index of the fluid (vitreous humour if I recall my school biology).
 
Wow, that's technical, cool... Yeah it should be that, my nurse thinks my diabetes has come on quick, just since jan., as that's when I first got symptoms, just a few weeks back.
 
carlsjones7 said:
The sheet I was given off the Drs said eat carbs, yet you look on the food packets & it's scary how high the carb content that sugars, so I'm definitely going to do the low carb diet
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I've been testing and low carbing for a month now and have learnt so much on this forum :)
One of the biggest shocks was learning just how my porridge affected my glucose levels, sent them sky high, yet I was always told it's the best breakfast for diabetics!
I told my diabetic nurse (DN) that it had raised my levels from 21 to 29 in just an hour and she said 'that's fine, they're good carbs' ! A high reading is a high reading however it was caused and carries the same dangers, yet she was totally unconcerned and said to carry on eating it!

I'm not usually one to say ignore doctors advice, but in this respect they're wrong, we're right and the quicker they realise it the better for all diabetics ;)
 
rowan said:
I've been testing and low carbing for a month now and have learnt so much on this forum :)
One of the biggest shocks was learning just how my porridge affected my glucose levels, sent them sky high, yet I was always told it's the best breakfast for diabetics!
I told my diabetic nurse (DN) that it had raised my levels from 21 to 29 in just an hour and she said 'that's fine, they're good carbs' ! A high reading is a high reading however it was caused and carries the same dangers, yet she was totally unconcerned and said to carry on eating it!

I'm not usually one to say ignore doctors advice, but in this respect they're wrong, we're right and the quicker they realise it the better for all diabetics ;)
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The Nhs live in the dark ages. They got a big changes a coming.
SUGAR is the killer not fat as they have been saying for years.
 
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