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Navigating the Eye Injection Journey

Anxious About Those Eye Injections?

When I moved from the Northeastern part of the US to the Southeastern part, I had to decipher some of the words and phrases used here. One was “Better than...

We Begin Again

I’m not superstitious, I’m sure it was just a coincidence. I had pressed the “send” button for my personal story on MacularDegeneration.net just a few minutes before the telephone rang...

What to Expect With Eye Injections for AMD

As we age, our eyesight can face challenges. One of the most common is age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is an eye condition that affects the central part of the...

Scared and Thankful

I had made an appointment with my regular eye doctor because I noticed very blurry vision in my right eye and noticed "floaters". I have been nearsighted since childhood and...

The Betadine Conversation and My Injection Protocol

Lately, I’ve been seeing numerous negative comments about the injections for the choroidal neovascularization (wet) type of macular degeneration. Many of our wonderful community members find the after-effects almost worse...

Reducing Injection Anxiety and Pain

Sometimes what we think of as being intuitively obvious and “common sense” is dead wrong. Other times the researchers prove the truth of something we were sure we knew anyway...

Come With Me for Your First Eye Injection

How did we get here? Ok, so by now we’ve seen our optometrist and he/she discovered some anomaly’s during the eye exam. The optometrist then referred us to an RS...

Stretching My Treatment Schedule

I think time is a funny thing. One minute, time seems to fly by so very quickly and in another moment, time drags ever so slowly. With 6 weeks in...

Vabysmo® (faricimab-svoa)

Vabysmo® (faricimab-svoa) is approved to treat people with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). In people with wet AMD, Vabysmo is first given in 4 monthly injections. Based on outcomes, people...