Patient's question:
What are the early symptoms of diabetic eye disease? It's quite troublesome to compare and ask the doctor to come back as soon as possible. Thank you, doctor.Doctor's answer:
The early symptoms of diabetic eye disease in you are redness of the eyes, which is most commonly acute conjunctivitis accompanied by continuously increasing secretions, foreign body sensation, and burning sensation, but without obvious eye pain or other eye disease symptoms. Next is keratitis, often accompanied by eye pain, photophobia, tearing, and other irritations, along with vision impairment. Severe eye pain accompanied by significant sharp pain, redness, photophobia, and tearing may indicate keratitis, along with headache on the same side, suggesting glaucoma with rapid eye movement pain and vision impairment. The likelihood of optic nerve inflammation is higher than vision impairment with floating black shadows.