Timing Is Everything With Macular DegenerationThey say "timing is everything," but with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), timing is also very difficult. The difficulty is we need to...reactions14comments
Dry Macular Degeneration and ProgressionEditor's Note: This article was originally written by Brown Eyed Girl, a MacularDegeneration.net Community Health Leader. As my dry age-related macular degeneration...reactions31comments
When Your Eye Vitamins Cause Stomach Pain (And What Helps Stop It)When I first found out I had myopic macular degeneration in 2007, there wasn’t much information out there about the vitamins and...reactions10comments
Valentine’s Day is Coming: Dating With Vision ImpairmentValentine’s Day is right around the corner, and for some, that means meeting new people and going on dates. That can definitely...reactionscomments
Hear + Now: Biosimilars for the Treatment of Wet AMDWet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the 2 kinds of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It occurs when blood vessels leak...reactions5comments
Adapting to Macular Degeneration ProgressionEditor's Note: This article was originally written by Brown Eyed Girl, a MacularDegeneration.net Community Health Leader. Over the 12 years I’ve had...reactions13comments
Advancing Age, Advancing AMDWhen I was 58, I went to my optometrist thinking I needed a new prescription for glasses. He informed me I had...reactions10comments
Why People With MD Don't Just Exercise to "Get Skinny"Somewhere in my early years of diagnosis with MD, I remember my retina specialist saying to me, “Get as skinny as you...reactions3comments
Goodbye, Vitreous Gel, I Won’t Be Missing YouI am a runner. Well, I was a runner. Now, I’m more of a walker who wants to be a runner again.This is...reactions7comments
The Science of Sugar and Macular DegenerationThis is the moment you’ve all been waiting for! In the first two articles in this series, I focused on educating you...reactions7comments
Reducing the Cost of Vitamins and a Healthy LifestyleIn the first article of this series, I explained how expensive buying fruits, vegetables, and vitamins can be. I also discussed the...reactions3comments
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...reactions5comments
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...reactions3comments
My Macular Degeneration UpdateI was stopped short the other day, literally, on the way to my retina specialist’s for an injection treatment for wet AMD...reactions2comments
Switching Anti-VEGF InjectionsYippee! I’m switching to Eylea for my next injection. I’ve read that some people can be helped by a change. When one...reactions7comments
My First Eylea InjectionYesterday as I was sitting in the waiting room at my retina specialist’s office, anxiously awaiting my turn for optical coherence tomography...reactions2comments
My Eylea Treatment Success Story: "Remarkable" Results"Remarkably successful!" Those are the words we all want to hear when we are discussing outcomes with our retina specialist. And those...reactions21comments
Six Months AgoTime is funny. Not in the slap-your-knee kind of funny — funny as in, "How is that even possible?" funny. One day...reactions10comments
Geographic Atrophy Progression and OutlookAge-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive disease that impacts the eyes. Progressive conditions can slowly get worse over time. For some...reactions11comments
Ask the Advocates: Mental Health and Macular DegenerationThe mental and emotional impact of a macular degeneration diagnosis is often overlooked, from the shock and fear of initial diagnosis to...reactions2comments
