I don't have diabetes but I have a question (retinal detachment)....

I know that diabetes can come with eye issues including retinal detachment. I plan on making an appt with my eye doctor but I won't be able to get in soon seeing that it's the weekend.

But can you tell me, if you had detachment, what were your early warning signs?

I am just trying to get a bit more knowledge...I had something really strange happen this morning. I went to look at the computer and it looked like the words I were trying to read were missing letters. I than realized that something was blocking my vision. I went into the bathroom, looked at the wall and I had almost a perfect circle of distorted vision in my central sight. Like a ring of waves. I covered my left eye and I found out that it was in my right eye only.

I began reading up on it (from what I could read anyway! lol) and it lead to me to possible retinal tears or an early sign of detachment.

My vision is back to normal mostly now, it seems a bit dimmer but not bad and my peripheral is fine. I also have been having an increase of floaters in my right eye.

Many thanks for any responses.

I second what Sherrine said but I'd go to the ER.   I have glaucoma but it was caught during an eye exam and I had no symptoms.  However, I also have floaters and the ophthamologist said it's not necessarily related to glaucoma, it happens with anyone.  Retinal detachment is different.  There are all sorts of specialists on-call even if they're not in the hospital at that moment.  This may be caught early but on the other hand, it might not be retinal detachment at all, so it's a important to have it evaluated right away.  I wouldn't wait till Monday. Keep us updated.

Oh, gotcha.  Good luck with the phone call and report back to us!