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Regular eye screening reffered for OCT scan

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Beav

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Hi,

i've had my regular diabetic eye screening done in May and not long before that at the opticians. Both said I passed the reading part of the eye test fine (20/20 vision) and the eye screening person said all looks ok, very slight background retinopathy (shows up every year).

This morning i've had a bit of a shock and been sent a text message to go for further investigation using an OCT scanner in early August, that tells me they are looking for macular degeneration?

Had no letter, just a text so I phoned up to speak to someone but they just said the OCT scanner is more detailed.


Anyone else had this?
 
It's usual for me. I have the optician test every year, and also the NHS scan every year at a different time. The optician tells me that even their enhanced scan, which I pay for as an extra, doesn't go into the detail that the eye hospital scan does.
 
Outlier said:
It's usual for me. I have the optician test every year, and also the NHS scan every year at a different time. The optician tells me that even their enhanced scan, which I pay for as an extra, doesn't go into the detail that the eye hospital scan does.
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After receiving no letter I did call my GP to see what was going on.

Apparently on my records it just says "Eyes screened in May, to be restested in 3 months", no idea why not the usual 12 months?
 
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