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 AgainI’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...
My First Injection for Wet AMDThis community has taught me everything I know about receiving an injection for wet macular degeneration. I had taken my father for many years to have his injections, but I’d...
Scared and ThankfulI 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 ProtocolLately, 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 PainSometimes 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 InjectionHow 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 ScheduleI 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). Vabysmo is first given in 4 monthly injections into the eye. Based on outcomes, people will then...
