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
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...Bookmark for later
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...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
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...Bookmark for later
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...Bookmark for later
