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Originally Posted by Stacman  If you don't mind, would someone please clarify what kind of laser treatment you're talking about? For instance, for what purpose? Certainly it's not standard corrective surgery to improve the overall vision. So is it to repair leaky blood vessels in the eye? |
Diabetic retinopathy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the (many) complications of Diabetes is retinopathy... which can be caused by a proliferation of extra blood vessels in the eye. These extra vessels tend to be fragile and bleed easily. Laser is often used to cauterize these little bleeders. If they do bleed you can get "floaters" or drops of blood that can get in the way of your field of vision. Or they can cause scarring on the retina and again loss of vision. Left untreated, this can lead to the retina detaching from the back of the eye and again laser can be used to try and fix the retina back in place.
All of us with D should be getting at least, an annual, fully-dilated eye examination by a specialist.
Retinopathy falls on the list of micro-vascular complications of D and you can do much to stave it off by reducing your A1c
