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People can make their lives easier with retinopathy if, for one, they get their eyes examined. Having an up to date glasses prescription is really helpful. Treating any other coexisting problems like cataracts can also be really helpful for patients. Ultimately, getting the retinopathy under control will afford patients the best possible prognosis with regards to their vision.
People can make their lives easier with retinopathy if, for one, they get their eyes examined. Having an up to date glasses prescription is really helpful. Treating any other coexisting problems like cataracts can also be really helpful for patients. Ultimately, getting the retinopathy under control will afford patients the best possible prognosis with regards to their vision.
The back of the eye is called the retina. One of the most devastating complications of diabetes is diabetic retinopathy. Retinopathy happens when blood vessels start to get leaky – whether it’s blood products or actually fluid leaking into the retina, the retina won’t work right. It can get swollen, it can get traction from fibrovascular tissue forming in the back of the eye. Retinopathy is one of the leading causes of blindness.
There are many treatments for diabetic retinopathy. Most commonly, medications are given into the eye through an injection. Laser treatment can also be done. For the most advanced cases, real surgery may be necessary.
Retinopathy can affect your daily life in all sorts of ways. Some patients may have absolutely no symptoms at all if the retinopathy is relatively mild. However, if they have rather extensive retinopathy or they’ve had bleeding in the eye, their vision may be such that they can’t even see the big “E” on an eye chart.
One of the common things that happens is that the patient comes in carrying a bag full of glasses, complaining that none of them work. They’ve seen three different eye doctors and they’re really struggling. One of the things on the list of potential problems is that the patient might have diabetes. What happens in the diabetics is that when their sugar is not well controlled, the lens of their eye kind of swells and then gets a little thinner so that their prescription is just changing all over the place. It’s really important for these patients to get their sugar under nice control and then it makes it a lot more reliable to prescribe a pair of glasses.
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