Q&A: Is it possible to get Diabetic retinopathy at the age of 16-18 and go blind?
Posted in Types on 20. Jun, 2010
Question by A.J: Is it possible to get Diabetic retinopathy at the age of 16-18 and go blind?
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Answer by Patrick S
HIGHLY unlikely. It’s typically happens in cases where patients have had the disease 15+ years and have recieved little to no treatment for the Diabetes.
Other posters have suggested that the liklihood is much greater if you do not monitor or attempt to control the Diabetes. Yes, it’s possible, but again, unlikely considering the amount of danger and serious side effects associated with allowing retinopathy to occur at the rate the question suggests (a 16-18 year old).
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it is possible if your diabetes is very poorly controlled, in uk you should get annual digital retinal screening and this would pick it up if its there, high blood sugar can give you blurred vision, this corrects as your sugar level normalises.
Yes.
Yes. If your blood sugar is very poorly controled. The way it happens is that your glucose concentration in your blood is high enough that some of it starts infiltrating into your eye. This increases the pressure within your eye and starts damaging your retina (what captures the light). It destroys your blood vessels and sensors and nerves where eventually you become blind by it.
it is possible at any age hon—please keep ur sugar under control—i mostly keep a good sugar level but have bladder,eye trouble and neuropathy because of diabetes—watch it while ur young plz