# Is Vision Loss 'Inevitable' With Type 2 Diabetes?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 5, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-vision-loss-inevitable-with-type-2-diabetes/719296 "2015-05-05T06:10:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-vision-loss-inevitable-with-type-2-diabetes/719296/21 "2015-05-06T01:49:32Z")

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Type II diabetic for 13 years. I had slight retinopathy in both eyes (with no apparent loss of vision) in year 6. At my last check I was clear, so if your diabetes is under reasonable control it can reverse.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-vision-loss-inevitable-with-type-2-diabetes/719296/22 "2015-05-06T02:53:35Z")

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> [@OneCentStamp](#):
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> I always found this shocking. Type 2 diabetes usually makes people _feel like shit_. How could you ignore that for long enough to start (irrevocably) screwing up your eyes?

Because it sneaks up upon one. You normally don’t just go from normal to 400 mg/dl in a day, unless your pancreas just up and shits the bed.

I will say that if I have to skip/miss all my meds for a day, morning insulin and assorted pills, by about 5 pm I am pretty much feeling like shit [not just an insane glucose mg/dl, but a blood pressure that has steadily been creeping up as assorted meds wear off.] I absolutely detest any medical procedure that makes me have to skip meds, and if I can not schedule it for first thing in the morning, I refuse to schedule until I can get in first thing.

And after 35 years I have no retinopathy nor neuropathy - again, be very assiduous with following medical instructions, regular medical appointments, tracking blood glucose, checking my feet and having mrAru check anything I can’t see, and my eye doc photographs my retinas and whatnot to be able to track any changes that might happen [well worth the $35 that insurance doesn’t cover.] I see a PCP doc, an endocrinologist, a nutritionist, an eye doc and a podiatrist. Well, I also see a rheumatologist and an orthopod but those aren’t diabetes related =)

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