What kind of eye problems can diabetes cause? High blood sugar and eyesight
High blood sugar and eyesight Blurred vision is one of the symptoms of long term, out of control diabetes. After the diabetes is diagnosed and brought under control, vision usually returns to normal. When a diabetic suddenly has blurred vision or other strange visual happenings (June sometimes reports seeing a large spot of light in her field of vision), this can indicate low blood sugar. Because of the visual changes that can take place with changes in blood sugar, June's ophthalmologist always insists that she have normal blood sugar when she comes in to have her eyes checked to see if she needs new glasses. The changes in vision you may have with low blood sugar can be disturbing, but they don't mean you're going blind. Blindness is always a worry for diabetics because you hear so many horrendous statistics about it. Diabetes is the cause of eleven percent of the legally blind people in this country, making it the third leading cause of blindness. It is the number ...