On the Retinal Changes

This web should be something scientific and could be trusted, I believe. It's a photo essay for the health professionals. So yeah, I actually AM quite worried about my eye you see. And Wikipedia isn't really helping. My books well, actually it's my eye. I couldn't tell anything of it by the first look, which I should. So I looked up for more information. (Now who says the internet isn't a tool for studying?)

Cotton Wool Spots

Cotton wool spots result from occlusion of retinal pre-capillary arterioles supplying the nerve fibre layer with concomitant swelling of local nerve fibre axons. Also called "soft exudates" or "nerve fibre layer infarctions" they are white, fluffy lesions in the nerve fibre layer. Fluorescein angiography shows no capillary perfusion in the area of the soft exudate. They are very common in DR, especially if the patient is also hypertensive



Hard exudates ( Intra-retinal lipid exudates )

lHard exudates ( Intra-retinal lipid exudates ) are yellow deposits of lipid and protein within the sensory retina. Accumulations of lipids leak from surrounding capillaries and microaneuryisms, they may form a circinate pattern. Hyperlipidaemia may correlate with the development of hard exudates.

So what do you reckon'? I think mine's more of the hard exudate no? I'm sure the medical assistant's experience has to count for something. He reassured me that it wasn't serious. So I'm taking it as that.

Just lipid... Really now, have to cut down on prawns. LOL