My eyes are getting better... optometrist suggested possibility of diabetes

[pr_capone]

So I go to get some new glasses and at the end of the "which is better 1 or 2" routine, the optometrist tells me that my eyesight has improved dramatically. My script, from the same doc and same place, 2 years ago was 1.75 on both eyes. As of today it is .5 on one eye and .25 on the other.

The guy quite literally scratched his head in befuddlement and asked me if anything had changed recently. He then suggests that Diabetes can cause a drastic change in a persons eyesight and tells me I should get checked out.
He goes on to do the light test and tells me that he does not see the spots or dark veins typically associated with diabetes.

I immediately go over to walgreens and pick up one of their blood glucose checker thingies and have checked at random points during the day and at my highest I have had a 93mg/dL level and that was about 2 hours after I ate. It was 79mg/DL after not eating for about 6 hours.

Has anyone else had their eyes get better over time? Seemed strange to him and I both.



/tl;dr - eyes are getting better, optometrist thought it might be diabetes, it isn't.

[WhiteWhale]

Originally Posted by pr_capone

So I go to get some new glasses and at the end of the "which is better 1 or 2" routine, the optometrist tells me that my eyesight has improved dramatically. My script, from the same doc and same place, 2 years ago was 1.75 on both eyes. As of today it is .5 on one eye and .25 on the other.

The guy quite literally scratched his head in befuddlement and asked me if anything had changed recently. He then suggests that Diabetes can cause a drastic change in a persons eyesight and tells me I should get checked out.
He goes on to do the light test and tells me that he does not see the spots or dark veins typically associated with diabetes.

I immediately go over to walgreens and pick up one of their blood glucose checker thingies and have checked at random points during the day and at my highest I have had a 93mg/dL level and that was about 2 hours after I ate. It was 79mg/DL after not eating for about 6 hours.

Has anyone else had their eyes get better over time? Seemed strange to him and I both.



/tl;dr - eyes are getting better, optometrist thought it might be diabetes, it isn't.

When I was growing up, but not as an adult.

I had terrible vision as a kid as I was far sighted and had astigatism.

When I was 14 I started complaining about my glasses and not wearing them and my mother bitched and bitched. I told her they gave me a headache and she said I got headaches because I wasn't wearing them... though that actually didn't make an sense as I got them WHILE wearing them only.

So I got checked out and the eye doc said I was only slightly far sighted in my left eye. I stopped wearing glasses because I could see fine. I couldn't see the lowest line on my drivers eye test with my left eye, but I only had to read the 2nd lowest line to pass.

Last 2 times I took that eye test for driving I could read the bottom line with both eyes. I still assume all of these problems will resurface as I age, but yeah... my eyes totally fixed themselves.

I don't think the astigmatism fixed itself. I don't think I ever had it. What they describe (part of the vision being cut out) never really happened. The doc insisted but I could never figure out what the hell he was talking about. I never had the problems he described. I just couldn't see shit close to my face. I had to sit in the back of class to see and reading books gave me really bad headaches from trying to focus.

[Gadzooks]

[mnchiefsguy]

Given what your blood glucose readings were, I would say you do not appear to be diabetic. A better test to get done would be your A1c, which measures what your blood glucose has been over the last couple of months. You can get that test done at your doctor's office, or they make a test that you can do at home and send in (I think it costs about 30 bucks though). You will get quicker, more accurate results from your doctors office.

I am a type 2 diabetic myself, and if my blood sugar was at 93 a couple of hours after eating, I would be doing a happy dance and giving everybody a high five.

My eyesight is incredible. Always has been. Both parents and my younger siblings have corrective lenses. I don't understand it. Maybe the mailman had great eyesight.

[bevischief]

Have you changed your diet?