You may not have any signs of diabetes retina damage, or you may have one or more signs:
- blurry or double vision
- rings, flashing lights, or blank spots
- dark or floating spots
- pain or pressure in one or both of your eyes
- trouble seeing things out of the corners of your eyes
If you have retina damage from diabetes, you may have blurry or double vision.
What other eye problems can happen to people with diabetes?
You can get two other eye problems-cataracts and glaucoma. People without diabetes can get these eye problems, too.
But people with diabetes get these problems more often and at a younger age.
- A cataract is a cloud over the lens of your eye, which is usually clear.
The lens focuses light onto the retina.
A cataract makes everything you look at seem cloudy.
You need surgery to remove the cataract.
During surgery your lens is taken out and a plastic lens, like a contact lens, is put in.
The plastic lens stays in your eye all the time. Cataract surgery helps you see clearly again.
- Glaucoma starts from pressure building up in the eye.
Over time, this pressure damages your eye's main nerve-the optic nerve.
The damage first causes you to lose sight from the sides of your eyes.
Treating glaucoma is usually simple.
Your eye care professional will give you special drops to use every day to lower the pressure in your eyes.
Or your eye care professional may want you to have laser surgery.
Pronunciation Guide
cataracts (KAT-uh-rakts)
dilating (DY-layt-eeng)
glaucoma (glaw-KOH-muh)
lens (lenz)
optic nerve (AHP-tik) (nerv)
retina (RET-ih-nuh)
retinopathy (RET-ih-NOP-uh-thee)
vitrectomy (vih-TREK-tuh-mee)
vitreous (VIT-ree-uhss)
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