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Had the same problem with both eyes, Retinopathy. The blood vessels in the eyes swell and bleed. The swelling changes your vision, and the bleeding causes more blood veins to form that reduces the area and vision. The blood goes into the fluid in your eye which is normally cleared. The extra blood in your eye also causes cataracts to form.

The first problem is the swelling changing your prescription and threatening bursting and losing your eyesight. I got admitted to a drug testing program of some stuff they inject into your eye that reduces the swelling and toughens up the veins so they don't leak as much.

So for a while I was getting treatments for the blood vessels and vision got a little better, but also started getting hazy (the cataracts started).

Then I stopped getting as many of the shots because the swelling was reduced and veins in better shape. But I started seeing floaters. This was a sign that enough blood was leaking to shade my retina.

Got laser treatments where they go in and laser the spots that are bleeding. 2700 spots in each eye. The right eye's floaters cleared up, but the left eye was still getting worse.

My right eye was getting as bad from cataracts as the left eye was from bleeding inside the eye so they did cataract surgery on my right eye making it as good as it was when they started all this. 20/25

The left eye was not clearing the blood fast enough so this last surgery was replacing the bloody fluid, peeling away any scared tissue from inside my eye and lasering 1000 more spots that were bleeding. The stuff they replace the fluid in the left eye with is not as optically correct as the normal fluid but will slowly clear up as my eye replaces it with it's own fluid. Say it takes a couple of weeks. It is the same brightness as my right eye now but still a little fuzzy.

They said the fluid replacement also causes cataract growth so they have put the left eye cataract surgery off until after it heals up from the fluid replacement.