“How does having diabetes affect your vision long-term?”
I am a 19 year old female. I want to know how does having diabetes affect your vision long-term?
5 Answers
If not controlled, diabetes can affect your vision by affecting the blood vessels in your eye. Routine dilated fundus examinations should be performed by your ophthalmologist to monitor condition and treat if necessary.
Hello, thank you for the question. Diabetes can cause diabetic retinopathy, which can be progressive and even cause blindness if not diagnosed and treated appropriately. It is often a painless condition and patients often are not aware of having it until it progresses to vision loss. It's important that patients with diabetes have regular dilated screening eye exams and seek care from a retinal surgeon once diabetic retinopathy develops, especially if it's progressive.
Hi,
If you keep your diabetes under good control with your team of doctors, your vision can be okay for long term. You need your primary care doctor, an endocrinologist and an ophthalmologist to guide you in this long journey.
Take good care.
If you keep your diabetes under good control with your team of doctors, your vision can be okay for long term. You need your primary care doctor, an endocrinologist and an ophthalmologist to guide you in this long journey.
Take good care.
Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus causes vision loss (diabetic retinopathy).
If you have diabetes, and sugars are uncontrolled, you are at risk, over time to develops retinopathy. For this reason all diabetics are advised to control sugars really well and to see eye specialist, ophthalmologist, yearly. This is needed to catch any problems from diabetes, controlled or uncontrolled, and receive timely treatment to prevent permanent damage to the eyes.
Dr Marina Strizhevsky
Dr Marina Strizhevsky
