Retinopathy

Hello, I just registered,

They have just diagnosed a retinopathy to my type 1 diabetic daughter with 10 years of debut and with 3 that has gone from everything, he is only 21 years old and we are very baffled, the ophthalmologist has sent me to the retina specialist, the visual field does not have italtered ...

Someone who can tell me your experience.

Thank you!

Obviously, it must have a lousy metabolic control, with hemoglobins greater than 10 or 12 %.But that no matter, there is no going back.What needs to be done is not to discourage and apply without any doubt an adequate treatment.That, and a reflection on the part of your daughter to stop the progressive deterioration that diabetes is causing him to return to 7%hemoglobins.With that and a change of mentality will have a second chance.The retinal specialist has at his disposal an authentic therapeutic arsenal to overcome retinopathy.Good luck!

Hello, this is an issue that worries me a lot in my son.Can it also in the future also to pretend retinopathy?Or does it only occur in cases of bad diabetes control?And retinopathy can be controlled in case it appears?

@Dalu, with good control, all complications are delayed a lot and when they appear they will be milder and
More treatable, but being diabetic is the risk factor ...

@"Ophthalmologo", you talk about the doctor has many tools to overcome retinopathy.But can you only prevent your progress, right?I read an article in which he said that today, it is very rare that a person can be blind because of diabetes, is that true?

Very interesting what you say Dalu ... you could clarify it ... thanks

The article commented that today the issue of complications with years ago and talked about eye problems especially has changed a lot.He said that with the education and knowledge of today, diabetes is usually more controlled than the geenta had before and that apart from that, if retinopathy appeared and made a periodic monitoring of the sight, retinopathyHe could find in the first episodes and had relatively an easy treatment so that he did not follow his evolution.But of course, the first thing is to have a controlled glycosylated hemoglobin and if it has not been so, control it as soon as possible and put yourself in the hands of a view of the view to treat that retinopathy and not go to more.What glycosilada does your daughter @solseo usually have?

Let's see ..hand status for more, of the year. And half with 15 he decided that he passed, of his illness and I think that few consequences has had ... It was already beginning to be bad. In general and Porfin decided to enter ... it was the only oneway to lower those figures and start from scratch ... that was at the end of August and at three days it already had normal figures ... it has passed it. Very bad his body was intoxicated but he has returned to reality ... he gave chance qHis revision.Ophthalmologica touched him two weeks ago and there they discovered it .. a year was perfect ... in terms of eye ..... we cannot, know that glycosylated now has but.I will have returned to its.In the SS .... I am scared. But I think, it was a inflection point in his life diabetes but even he has not.Affected to your vision field sees I am worried

The lesions caused by retinopathy are irreversible.The only thing that can be done is to ensure that more advanced degrees of retinopathy are not produced by the progression of the lesions already installed.Evolution without treatment leads to blindness, so the process must be aborted whatever.Naturally, this will only be possible with disease control.There is no treatment that is able to overcome a 15% hemoglobin maintained over time
I recommend that you read everything published on this topic in the forum, surely all your fudas are clarified a lot

Dalu, I have not answered your question because Regina has done it much better than I could do it

That is, no matter how good control that is carried, the complications appear even if they could be controlled without being serious, right?

I believe that this will depend a little on the control that is carried out and on many other things that are also influenced as lifestyle, food ... below 7 is considered a good control although it is obviously not the same 7 as 5(which would be like a non -diabetic).It will be more likely to develop some complication that is in 7 for years than the one in 5 (which I suppose will have the same as a non -diabetic).I do not speak only of complications in view, but of all those associated with diabetes.Sometimes we tend to focus a lot on glycosilada but there are many other things that also increase the risk of diseases for which diabetics have more ballots.Being sedentary, eating unhealthy things, smoking, drinking, etc.If you know glycos of 7 or more then everything is adding.
I give you the example of pregnancy that I am now quite informed.In a non -diabetic pregnancy the risk of congenital malformations is 2%.With a hemoglobin of 5 or less the risk would be the same as a non -diabetic.With 6 hemoglobin of 6 the risk of malformations is 3%.With a hemoglobin of 7 the risk is 5% and with a hemoglobin of 9 the risk is 12%.
I suppose that in many other diabetes complications the thing would be similar, as there is more lack of control the risk increases.In the end it is a matter of probabilities, there are diabetics with many years of evolution that have no complication.

@Ophthalmologist, you are the one who teaches us and helps us.We are very grateful.