Are there any common symptoms of Diabetic Retinopathy?

There are no particular symptoms I've mentioned, one where you might suddenly lose your vision and that's because of bleeding. What you probably find is that you're not just able to focus properly on things and looking at things becomes more and more difficult, you know, such as daily activities, such as reading, watching TV. One thing I would counsel people about is when they're first diagnosed with diabetes, always tell patients not to go and change their glasses, because what happens is because of your high blood glucose, the shape of your eyeball changes. And once we get that blood glucose under control, you will have that your visual acuity, I mean, as your ability to see will change again. And so you'll then spend going to how many hundreds of pounds on on a new pair of glasses, which will then have to get rid of. So I always tell people just wait until everything settles down. But on the whole, it's a gradual process. And you often it just creeps up on you. It's preventable. Unfortunately, the people who end up with the greatest difficulties are those who don't turn up to their annual reviews or don't turn up to their annual retinal photography. And it may be because they, for various reasons, they haven't taken on board the gravity of their diabetes or may not have accepted their diabetes, there is a there is a situation where people don't want to accept that they've got a problem and therefore wish to forget about it, unfortunately, it will catch up on you and once those are there they're not reversible.