It’s a common mistake to think that each of our body parts works separately to the others without any one significantly affecting the other. It is also a common mistake to think that when you’re sick you will only feel it in one part of your body. Just think of when you get the flu and you feel achy all over. You can’t even think clearly through the fog that seems to take over your mind. In the same way, an illness like diabetes has some unusual and possibly unexpected affects on various parts of one’s body – one example being your eyes and your eyesight. Let’s start off explaining what diabetes is, in order for you to better understand it’s affect on your optical system. In short, a regular working body produces and metabolizes insulin in a certain way in order to help with the digestion of y boost your metabolism our food and the way that your body uses the various nutrients and elements from that food. When someone suffers from diabetes, it means that one’s body does not produce enough insulin and cannot digest and use sugars and carbohydrates in the same way that a regular body does. There are three types of diabetes that one can contract: Type 1 diabetes, which is usually contracted before the age of 30 and is monitored by daily (or sometimes more) blood tests and controlled often controlled with daily insulin injections. Type 2 diabetes is usually known as “late-onset diabetes” as it occurs in older ages and can be controlled with a special diet, exercise and sometimes oral medication. The third type of diabetes can only be contracted by pregnant women and is known as gestational diabetes mellitus.