User: groovyrooster Date: 2008-03-18 12:29 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Wait - your optometrist is diagnosing diabetes?!?! Obviously diabetes can change eye-sight, but that seems like a bit of a jump. Does diabetes run in your family?

Also I'm kinda surprised that people do not exhibit symptoms for diabetes? Maybe if they eat poorly and have a list of comorbidities, then the complications of diabetes might not be so obvious. But you eat well and are healthy, so I would think you would be able to distinguish the difference.

I'm skeptical. Keep me posted. But I will put a plug in for exercise. It makes a difference. I'm back to running in the morning because Jeff wants to run a 10-miler at the end of April. I feel so much better when I run. It is serious. Will I be able to run the 10 miler very fast? No, but at least I can run. Ha!

User:	crimsann
Date:	2008-03-18 14:14 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

Well, to clarify a bit from my "off the deep end" ramblings...he didn't exactly diagnosis it. He just pointed out that in the last year my eye sight has deteriorated by four steps (whatever that means) and that there are really only 3-4 reasons why that would be likely to happen.

1. I'm 12 (yeah, I know...I tried for that one, but it was a no go.)
2. I have cataracts (checked, that's a nope.)
3. I have diabetes

and then this one he threw out there as maybe most likely but not likely enough to warrant not being tested for #3.

4. I do a lot of work close up

As far as the "no symptoms", I have read that in one place but most sources seem to word it more like "symptoms that are so vague you wouldn't immediately think diabetes". The common ones are listed as:

Frequent urination
Excessive thirst
Extreme hunger
Unusual weight loss
Increased fatigue
Irritability
Blurry vision

In my case I can easily say not a chance on the first two, nope on the third, HELL no on the fourth, not really given the long hours I work I mean I'm always a bit tired but rarely what I would call more so than usual on the fifth, maybe I'm not the best judge on the sixth, and yeah without my old glasses sure on the last.

shrug. I don't know, to me that is not a lot to go by...I mean most of them are pretty subjective really.

I guess it made more sense to me from the angle of there are only a few things that would cause the eye sight to deteriorate so rapidly rather than the other way around.

All things said and done, I haven't been to a GP in longer than I will admit here...so I guess it wouldn't hurt to actually get one (told you it had been awhile) and have myself tested.

As far as it running in my family, sort of. My grandfather did have it for sure, and my Mom is supposedly border line...so I guess it's not as unlikely as all that.

I just never suspected, so it's all a bit much to deal with. Like I needed even more eating restrictions when it's hard enough to be constantly thinking about what I eat.

But, enough "poor me"...I will keep you posted, although I won't know much for awhile. I'm going to read up on the diet...which I take wouldn't hurt anyone to follow anyway, and hunt around for a GP. I got a recommendation for a diabetic specialist already, but that seems like jumping the gun a bit.