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If you have had Diabetes for more than 6 years and your Blood Sugar Value is sometimes more than 200 or your HbA1c is more than 7.0, you may have Diabetic Retinopathy. You can’t find it by yourself because it first occurs from narrow blood vessels surrounding part of the retina.

Many patients, in spite of observing strict calorie calculated diet for more than 10 years, have worsened their symptoms to the extent for injected insulin. When I asked them about diet in detail, I found they like high-insulin diet such as rice cakes or rice crackers everyday which they think is OK because it is not sweet.
In general, hospital Dieticians, not Internal Medicine Doctors, give advice about Diabetic diet to the patients. A protocol about Diabetic diet is always decided depending on only calories. This trend has lasted in the same way for several decades at least in Japan.

When you have high-insulin diet, our blood sugar concentration in the vessel rises rapidly, and insulin concentration also rises rapidly. Subsequently the insulin concentration becomes rather lower than normal.
If you repeat this cycle every day, you will suffer from Diabetes Type II. If you have a habit to drink plastic bottled sugar water such as isotonic drinks, sweetened sodas & canned coffee you may be deficient in vitamin B. In which case you will have Diabetes Type II easily even if you are young and thin.

First I will check all of your habits including diet carefully and explain about the low- insulin- foods which you should take and the high- insulin- foods which you should not take.
Secondly, I will recommend you to take natural vegetable omega-3 oil or supplement which helps decreasing your blood sugar value and cholesterol.
I will also recommend other supplements which prevent forming AGEs (Advanced Glycation End products). The worst cause of arteriosclerosis is said to relate to AGEs.　Besides Diabetic Retinopathy it is quite similar to inflammation of retinal vessels, in which case I will prescribe medicines suppressing inflammation.

One of the complications of Diabetes is Glaucoma. We will take care of it at the same time.
If you consult us once a month and we will examine your retina and make fluorescent angiography. A person who obediently carries out our advice and continues for more than 6 months, will not need to inject insulin anymore and his/her retinopathy will recover naturally.