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Comment by lisa c on April 8, 2012 at 10:27am

Comment by Josh F on April 8, 2012 at 5:19am

Thanks Lisa, I will try. I think it was just a blow to my state of mind as I was at the moderate NPDR level for almost 10 years. I might be from the tighter control and hopefully I won't need laser but if I do I have great drs who have been watching me for decades. Fingers crossed. I just need to work on the stress...that has been out of control. ;-/

Comment by lisa c on April 7, 2012 at 3:44am

Josh,

25 years ago I felt the same fear and frustration. Get the lasers and keep working on BG, stress levles, daily and things will look better. They are doing amazing things to help us keep from vision loss.

Comment by Josh F on April 7, 2012 at 3:07am

So it finally happened. I went from Moderate NPDR to Severe. I suspect PDR is not far away now. Yay for Diabetes.

Comment by shoshana27 on March 12, 2012 at 4:03pm

earthling,good luck,as long as you have a good doc. & trust him,you'll be ok.

Comment by earthling on March 12, 2012 at 2:53pm

Congratulations, Shoshana! I love hearing that your retinopathy has stopped progressing, that laser worked. I'm needing lots of laser these days <:-( You are giving me hope! - Also had cataract surgery in both eyes as you mention. That was a great thing. Didn't realize how degraded my sense of colors had become and now I see how beautiful the world is again! Anyway, good for you and thanks for letting us know!

Comment by shoshana27 on March 11, 2012 at 12:26am

last week i saw my ophthalmologist & no new bleeding.nice.years ago had 6 lasers left eye & 1 laser r. eye also cataract both.don't see as well as before but at my age not so bad...

Comment by missrobbie on March 9, 2012 at 4:21am

My last laser( PRP) was in Jan but I still one day my vision is "clear" and sometimes my vision is blurry. My left eye was blurry for 2 days this week but today, my left eye is slowly clearing.

Comment by Randall Wong, M.D. on March 8, 2012 at 8:22pm

@ missrobbie

There are two types of laser treatments for diabetic retinopathy.

Focal laser - used for "leakage" and is the most common. No pain, Target area is the around the macula.

PRP - used to treat PDR where abnormal blood vessels proliferate on the surface of the retina. A vitreous hemorrhage is common in PDR.

Thus, if the laser treatment to which you are referring is PRP, then yes.

Which type of laser did you have and for what reason?

r

Comment by missrobbie on March 8, 2012 at 5:03pm

Randall Wong, M.D.

Is it normal to have floater after laser treatment? one day my vision is "clear" and sometimes my vision is blurry.

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