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 AMDEditor's Note: This article was originally written by Brown Eyed Girl, a MacularDegeneration.net Community Health Leader. This community has taught me everything I know about receiving an injection for wet...
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...
What Is the Treat and Extend Method for Wet AMD?Wet macular degeneration (AMD) happens when the macula, or central part of the retina, is damaged by the growth of new blood vessels. Those blood vessels can cause swelling or...
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 they've discovered some anomalies 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...
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...
