Diabetes can damage a patient's vision very rapidly compared to other eye diseases.

Patients may notice blurry vision or dry eyes with diabetes.

It may be transient and eb and flow depending on the sugar levels.

For chronic high sugar, bleeding will occur in the retina of the eye.
The retina is a delicate neurosensory tissue that is responsible for absoribing light and converting that light signal into a chemical signal for the brain to use.

We stage the severity of diabetic retinopathy based on how much bleeding has occured.

In addition, localized damaged nerve tissues and blood vessel changes indicate more severe involvement.

When the eye has chronic blood in it, it will try growing new blood vessels to absorb that blood. What instead happens is those blood vessels over time grow uncontrollably and this mesh will burst and cause bleeding within the eyeball itself or it will pull the retina forward and cause it to peel away--a retina detachment.

Diabetes control is important, for localized eye problems, a retina specialist will be important to help prevent these stages from occuring.

See this website below for more information, we manage our diabetic patients with this group as well!
https://www.retinaconsultantstexas.com/treatment/retina-conditions/diabetic-retinopathy