Unfiltered Story #231023

I have gone to the opticians because I have a visual disturbance that is constantly there. My doctor advised that I go as they couldn’t find anything. Due to it not being a routine appointment, I am seen by someone I do not know.

Optician: You’re diabetic?

Me: Yes.

Optician: Do you go for retinopathy screening?

Me: Yes.

She reads my records for about a minute. She has yet to examine me.

Optician: I think you need to make an appointment again for screening. This looks like the early signs of eye disease.

Me: I went last month. There was nothing wrong.

Optician: It can happen very quickly!

Me: Inside a month?

Optician: YES!

I asked her to examine me, but she said it was a waste of time and asked me to leave. As I left I requested another appointment with my usual optician.

At the next appointment I was actually examined, and was told it was essentially a large floater that moved very little with my eye movements, so I was able to focus on it more easily. It would most likely move or disperse in the next year.

When I spoke about what the first optician suggested, I was told that it had been her last week there, and that she had been fobbing off her patients with any excuse she could.