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AFTER DAY 5

WEIGHT NOW: 21 Stone 1 pounds
START WEIGHT: 21 stone 12 pounds

LOSS AFTER DAY 5: 11 Pounds !!

Exercise. None

INTERESTING FOOTNOTE:

I suffer from macular degeneration (Fluid on the macular) and my eye sight has been getting worse steadily for 3 years in one eye. This is measure by viewing letters on an special eye chart and having a scan to measure the fluid in the eye.

Every 4-6 weeks I am monitored and either have to have an injection to remove the fluid or am monitored.

Today my eyesight has IMPROVED

I can see more letters and have less fluid on the eye without an injection.

So is the diet causing this improvement !!!

Comments Please.

Have you experienced this diet bonus ?

Yes – I found the same. After 8 weeks fluid completely gone. Fingers crossed that it is still the same at the next hospital eye clinic appointment shortly. The consultant told me that each injection cost £800 – so a huge saving to the NHS. Also – I find the whole procedure horrible. When I told one doctor what I was doing he said that keeping my blood sugars in the non-diabetic range would make no difference whatsoever and that my eye would continue to get worse. There was absolutely nothing I could do. I am hopeful that I will prove him completely wrong.

Hi KrysiaD

I find it strange we both have positive changes so feel must be something we are doing as I have never had one previously

Cant find anything in ‘the book’ or on the web site about improvements in macular disorders

cant find any research done on the subject either.

Good to keep monitoring this though

yes I was told £1000 so you getting a bargain !!

Hi 54,
Has your blood pressure reduced as that could be reducing your macular oedema?
Have you noticed a reduction in oedema in any other areas eg swollen ankles/fingers if you experience this.

Congratulations on your 11lb loss so far- that’s fantastic.

Hi Tizzie

I don’t suffer from high blood pressure at all and am in the normal range.

I don’t have swollen ankles or fingers or anything !!

Thanks for the congrats

I’m not doing anything special, just following the plan meals etc

Good luck you too

Although my blood pressure was in the normal range before I started the BSD it has definitely reduced a little and I have also far less fluid retention in my legs especially in the evening. Maybe your body is getting rid of excess fluid too now you have embraced the plan. Hopefully the fluid in your eye will disappear completely like KrysiaD – keep us posted!

Hi 54andfatnomore
I read some information on a pdf from Moorfields Eye hospital which said that Macular Oedema was caused by high blood sugars so it made sense that normalizing blood sugar levels through the BSD would help. I then read on another site that normalizing blood sugar levels would either improve it or make it worse. If it made it worse it would only be temporary and patients whose oedema got worse initially would end up ok in the end. As I didn’t know which group I would be in I was very nervous at my last eye clinic appointment. I knew very quickly that my eye was ok because when they photograph my good eye the green line that you can see before they take the photo is straight. On my bad eye it is wavy. This time on the bad eye it was straight as well. I was so relieved.
re: the cost of the eye injections – my consultant said that there is another drug that works just as well and only costs £50 per eye injection but the drug company won’t license it – its not hard to work out why they won’t at £800+ per injection.

I’ve had the same – excellent – optician for the last 20 years and annual eye tests, although only diagnosed as diabetic a couple of years ago.
My distance vision was only ever slightly impaired but I’d had glasses for driving at night for a few years. I was surprised that my vision improved had improved & the optician said I no longer needed them. He did give me a very long explanation, but essentially saying it wasn’t uncommon for vision to improve once blood sugar issues are resolved.
Sadly I still need reading glasses though.

Interesting Add on

3 years on I still have, and always will, AMD

I have had numerous injections BUT the rate of degeneration continues to lessen

i recently had a serious accident where my diet went out the window and my eye became worse very quickly (Quoting the eye specialist)

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