Retinopathy worse with sudden Hba1c drop?

[Jasperville]

Saw a link to a brilliant retinopathy site in a separate thread.

http://www.diabeticretinopathy.org.uk/back_diabetic_retinopathy.html

This suggests retinopathy can dramatically worsen for 1 to 3 years after a sudden improvement in control, and then recover, but initially laser treatment may be required.

With my quick drop in Hba1c, I have noticed I have a lot more floaters, and vision perhaps a bit blurred. Scared now before my next retinopathy screen in 3 weeks time. Have had background retinopathy for 4 years.

Does anyone have direct experience of worsening retinopathy with sudden good control?

 

[CapnGrumpy]

Yes, when I made a sudden and massive improvement to my control a number of years back I got some background retinopathy after having none which, understandably, put the willies up me.

It was monitored for changes, but actually improved with continued control and without medical intervention. There's still some signs of it, but nothing particularly worrying and is stable.