Have Wet AMD and Hoping for Something Other Than Injections?I am starting my fourth year working with those who have macular degeneration. In my Facebook group, one of the most common topics, when I started it in 2016, was...Bookmark for later
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...Bookmark for later
Have Wet AMD and Hoping for Something Other Than Injections?I am starting my fourth year working with those who have macular degeneration. In my Facebook group, one of the most common topics, when I started it in 2016, was...Bookmark for later
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...Bookmark for later
Have Wet AMD and Hoping for Something Other Than Injections?I am starting my fourth year working with those who have macular degeneration. In my Facebook group, one of the most common topics, when I started it in 2016, was...Bookmark for later
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...Bookmark for later
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...Bookmark for later
Eye Injections: What to ExpectThere are two different kinds of advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD): dry AMD and wet AMD.1 In wet AMD, new abnormal blood vessels grow underneath the retina in a process...Bookmark for later
Hooray! I’m Stable, or at Least My Eye IsYippee, whoo hoo, congratulations to me! No bleed! For those of you who’ve read my previous story, We Begin Again, you’ll remember that after a few months of stability, my...Bookmark for later
The Betadine Conversation and My Injection ProtocolDid you know that someone from the MacularDegeneration.net team reads all the comments and responds when possible? I do this when time permits, researching and then answering any questions I...Bookmark for later
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...Bookmark for later
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...Bookmark for later
What is Anti-VEGF Therapy?Macular degeneration, especially age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is one of the most common eye conditions that causes vision loss in older people. There are 2 kinds of AMD: dry AMD...Bookmark for later
Vabysmo® (faricimab)Vabysmo® (faricimab) is approved to treat people with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) who have previously responded to at least 2 injections of an endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor into...Bookmark for later
