Diabetes Talking

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The doctors said to wait (neuro ophthalmologist). They offer no other treatment.  I find that I am beginning to ignore the left eye.

What is it you are supposed to wait for?  I don’t know much about this, obviously, but can you get a second opinion?  Until you get proper treatment, have you considered intermittently putting a patch over the good eye?   Can’t one lose eyesight in an eye if one continues to ignore it?   Perhaps the patch might helps strengthen it.  You also might want to get some cellular levels of magnesium, calcium, other minerals, etc. done Diabetes patients are often low in magnesium, and zinc, and possibly that could have an effect on your eye muscle. Good luck with this. BL

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hello folks. has anyone suffered an occurrence of double vision, due to diabetic paralysis of one of the muscles around the eye?  I have that right now. I’ve had diabetes symptoms for about a year now.  I suppose we all hate diabetes. I hope my eyesight returns to normal. The medial muscle for the left eye does not pull. The left eye fails to track right after the midpoint. Therefore, I see double when looking right. I just turn my head or close an eye. The doctors said to wait (neuro ophthalmologist). They offer no other treatment.  I find that I am beginning to ignore the left eye. I write here in search of any one that has or has had the symptom in hopes of gaining a treatment regime. My GP at the local doc-in-a-box has nothing to advise.  Is this a neuropathic etiology? What drug should be prescribed? Amitriptyline? (sorry, I can’t leave an email address for fear of spam. I get more than 50 e-mails a day that are spam and I cannot take more. Please reply to the message in the ng.) greg please forgive any misspellings or typos)

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