Maculopathy ???

Hello everyone, the truth is that today I am somewhat worried, yesterday I went to the ophthalmologist and he referred me to another specialist to see me, since it seems that he can suffer a maculopathy in the left eye.The truth is that the ophthalmologist gave me no explanation simply that they would call me from the hospital to perform more tests, it even seemed to bother him to ask him, what a professionalism !!!!!!!!!, the issue is that he will make about 3Years I have a wound in the cornea and I still remedy, above all when I open my eye in the morning when I woke up.Will this have something to do?, Will it be a complication of diabetes? The ophthalmologist told me that the background was fine.Well in short, you can tell me about the subject ?????

I think that if he told you that the background is fine, you can be calm.Retinopathy is easily detected with the background.
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Maculopathy is a problem of the macula, not of the retina.Surely, as Regina tells you, it has nothing to do with diabetes.
Most likely, they will make you a kind of "macrophotographs", to see if there is injury and, where appropriate, where and what kind.My husband, which is not diabetic, something similar happened to him.

Tranquility, that surely will not be serious and will be fixed.

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There are two types of eye complications, among which we have diabetes: retinopathy and maculopathy.
Both are produced by the same: hemorrhages and microvascular edemas ... The vessels are caught and the blood presses to leave and can occur in the retina or in the macula
If it occurs in the retina, edemas usually proliferate (proliferative retinopathy) ..
The effects of diabetic retinopathy may end up causing maculopathy.

If maculopathy is diagnosed early there are many possibilities to conserve good vision, with proper treatment.

As they have answered before, it is also possible that maculopathy does not come for diabetes.

By xiquillo:
The issue is that he will do a wound in the cornea for about 3 years and I still remedy myself, over all, when I open my eye in the morning when I wake up.Will this have something to do?, Will it be a complication of diabetes? The ophthalmologist told me that the background was fine.Well in short, you can tell me about the subject ?????
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Hello greetings to everyone.

Xiqui happened to me the same thing about 7 years made a wound in the cornea with a baby's nucle and I from time to time in the morning, the specialist did not give importance.Two days ago and they made me a macrophotography of the eyes with a solution of sodium fluoresty.I only found a little cataracts and they will schedule operation for the next month.
So calm that the ophthalmologist knew what he told you.Keep a bottle of eye drops on the night table and if you feel a dry and annoyance when you open it in the morning you put them on and ready.

Nana, precisely I had not said it, but the wound was also made to me with the nail, what coincidences, huh?, Thankfully someone else knows what we are talking about, why when you say that for 3 years I still resent yourselfThey look at you with the face of saying "exaggerated !!".The fact is that the ophthalmologist did not give him too much importance on the first day that was on Wednesday, Viscofresh simply prescribed before bed and ready, but the next day he saw it with the drops to see the background, he already told meThat they would do more evidence, I changed the viscofresh for another one that is in gel, Lipolac gel oftálmico, but he told me that he had nothing to do with the wound with the future tests, this was the only explanation he gave me.Of course I blamed the loss of sight of this, but now I have the doubt, it will have something to do, or not ????????

Calm Xiquillo;) Already the ophthalmologist told you the same thing they told me.Here I put a link that I looked for you and dissipates many doubts that you can have about the dryness in the eye and the most frequent causes.

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I fear that two themes are being mixed: macula and cornea.A diabetic can develop a maculopathy depending on the years he has been with diabetes and the control he has had on it.Whenever a diabetic has a maculopathy, it is due to its disease until the opposite is demonstrated.It is true that maculopathies can be of non -diabetic origin but this only occurs from the 60s onwards.In fact they are known by the acronym DMAE (Macular Degeneration associated with age).If your ophthalmologist has referred you to the hospital to make tests that reveal a maculopathy, it is because in preliminary exploration it has found some alteration that has been suspected.A very responsible and professional attitude.Another thing is that it is more or less sympathetic but is not at work for sympathy.
The other issue is that of the cornea.It is very frequent that after a trauma (that of the child's nail is typical), if it is associated with any small alteration of tear quality, what is known as corneal recurrent keratalgia is produced.In essence it is that, during the night, since the worse eye is lubricated by the absence of flashing, the eyelid adheres to the cornea.Under normal conditions nothing happens, but in case of ulcer, there is a scar, which during the first weeks is quite weak and unstable.If the eyelid adheres to the cornea, initial scar tissue surveys will be produced, which will always be the scar in the initial phase and therefore, vulnerable.The solution is to make a constant treatment, with artificial tears (Viscofresh is fine), and put a gel at night (Lipolac too), until a stable and strong enough scar occurs so that it does not rise.Normally a period of 4-6 months is necessary without alterations of the scar to reach a normal cornea.

Finally, a clarification: the macula and the retina are part of the same anatomical structure, that is, the macula is part of the retina.A very important part, because it has a very specialized function and structure, which does not have the rest of the retina.There is where the central vision is based and when affected, visual acuity can be reduced to 5% of what a normal vision is.
Obviously, when the retina is affected, the symptomatology can be null and when the macula is altered, the lesions are usually irreversible.There is no diabetic affectation of the retina and another from the macula.It is the same, and it should not minimize these issues because it is the best way to reach the disaster