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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deleted Account" data-source="post: 1853313">It is very easy to become obsessed by diabetes and believe every single niggle is diabetes related ... or every single niggle can be cured by managing our BG.However, with diabetes, we are just as susceptible to the whole gamut of other illnesses, injuries and allergies as everyone else.I have recently experienced an allergic reaction which caused my eye/cheek to swell up to the level that it was obscuring my sight. I ended up with a few days of steroids and a month of fexofenodine hydrochloride to "retrain my allergy reactors".After nearly 15 years of diabetes, this is the first time I have experienced this and the course of drugs prescribed seem to have done their thing - the swelling went down after 3 days and I have not reacted to any other allergy since.I believe, if the doctor is happy to say your puffy eyes are an allergy, this is very very very very unlikely to be diabetes related.</blockquote>

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