Type 2 Eye test Process

Not quite sure what you are asking.
Are you talking about your cousin or yourself?
The T2 eye screening (in the UK at least) involves having drops put into the eye which dilate the pupil.
Are you having a different kind of test that does not include having the drops?

Lifeisnoteasy said:

however the appointments she attended after was more lengthy and she did not recieve eye drops.

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I'm guessing she was being examined for something other than the retinal photography that needs the eye drops. But to be honest why don't you ask her what the examiner told her?

I know I've had the eye screening with and without the drops, if I've been sitting in dark place my eyes are often dilated enough that they don't need the drops (I've had a few types of screening cos they did extra different screenings when they found maculopathy)
The drops are only to dilate the eyes anyway, they don't do any poking or anything with all of the screenings I've ever had - they are screenings so they take pictures

As @bulkbiker says it may well have been something other than a normal diabetic screening

Lifeisnoteasy said:

I am not sure you are reading my post correctly or i am simply not explaining it clearly. I said my cousin has ALREADY had her first screening- which she recieved eye drops, however the appointments she attended after was more lengthy and she did not recieve eye drops. Is it normal practise? She has been experiencing watery eyes as a result,

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You mention a ‘test’ and then ‘cataracts’; assuming by ‘test’ you mean the routine eye screening for diabetics then ‘cataracts’ can be revealed during that examination but you would be referred to somebody else to address them.

You say your cousin was given drops at her first eye screening?

As far as I am aware the person who carries out the yearly routine screening is just a technician who takes a retinal photography of the back of the eye. The only drops they give are the ones to dilate pupils.

But since you mentioned your cousin has cataracts perhaps that’s why she was given eye drops? (although that wouldn’t happen in a diabetic eye screening session).

I was prescribed drops when I had cataracts as apparently I had a residual inflammation and unless I got rid of it I wouldn’t have been able to be operated on to remove them (I can’t remember if I took them for a few weeks or a month) but that was from the eye hospital I turned to when I realised I had cataracts.

I then had to take drops for 14 days prior the day of the operation and obviously more drops after the operation (for a month).

Cataracts cause watery eye (and sometime even pressure pain depending on how big they are) but there are no drops for that or at least I wasn’t given any as I was told the operation would have fixed it.

I am assuming your cousin has watery eyes because she has cataracts and not because of the drops she was given?

Lifeisnoteasy said:

Thank you everyone for responding, but i think you have miss the point. The question was why does she have to have a second lengthy examination which puts a strain on her eyes

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why do you think it puts a strain on her eyes? If she needs further examination, it will be for a good reason to help her sight.

Lifeisnoteasy said:

Thank you everyone for responding, but i think you have miss the point. The question was why does she have to have a second lengthy examination which puts a strain on her eyes

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If she has visits because of the cataracts there are i think 3 visits before you walk into a theatre for the operations, plus biometrics to choose the best lens to fit.

It's a tedious process (at least in the UK, other countries are way better at dealing with these issues).

In Australia, you have to have eye drops as the optometrist or the ophthalmologist will not examine your eyes without them.

I have never had any strained eyes from having them put into my eyes.