Pets and Service Animals...Do you have a pet or a service animal? Do they assist with your low vision needs, or do they serve moreso as an emotional support animal? Feel free to...reactionsrepliesCopingMental Health
What to Do? A Big Treatment Decision...This was the hardest decision I'd had to make regarding my macular degeneration. Over the previous 10 years, there had been other things to decide, but I'd usually had time...reactions5comments
I Share All Your Symptoms......After reading how AMD can and will cause blindness (and experiencing the rapid road to it myself) I resigned to this fate though not without a fight... In looking back...reactions4comments
Tips on communicating visually with people with AMD...Hi all I don't have AMD, but I regularly produce literature for people with AMD and other vision impairments. My job is to produce materials for people considering a clinical...reactions4repliesWet AMDResearch & Clinical TrialsTips & Advice
A Summer Trip to Alaska With Limited Vision...I am pretty sure I am not the only one wondering how in the heck time is flying by. Honestly, each year I scratch my head in amazement over the...reactionscomments
Geographic Atrophy...I believe this is associated with dry amd. Can someone tell me the effect it has on one's sight...thanks....reactions3repliesDry AMD
Looking for tips on trying to follow music...I’ve been playing guitar for almost 60 years. I don’t read music, so I type out lyrics and have the cords over the proper words. I am now typing my...reactions7repliesTips & Advice
The Grayish Blob in the Night: CBS, AMD, and Me...It first appeared weeks before my diagnosis with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). I’d see it when I would get up in the middle of the night, never during the...reactions7comments
What symptoms have you been experiencing lately? ...A common symptom of macular degeneration is light sensitivity. Do you experience this or any other symptoms (e.g. colors losing their vibrancy, blurred lines, central scotoma)? Share with our community....reactions26repliesSymptoms
New treatments ...I saw someone post there was a new treatment .but I can't find it...reactions1reply
If you have Charles Bonnet Syndrome what were your earliest symptoms?...I was diagnosed with Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)yesterday. If I had not ran across a Reddit thread on CBS I would not have known to ask my doctor about it...reactions16repliesProgressionDiagnosisSymptoms
Injection Anxiety After a Delay in GA Treatment...After nearly 10 years with dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), I was diagnosed with geographic atrophy (GA) in the summer of 2023. Dry AMD patients like me have long hoped for...reactions16comments
Lumi Thera treatments, using the valeda machine...The clinics are all over Europe. I spent four weeks in Switzerland to receive the treatments; 3 each week for 3 weeks. and a fourth week so the doctor can...reactions18repliesAwarenessDry AMDTreatment
Nervous...Have an appt today for my first injection for my dry AMD…concerned..but feel I have no choice..but at 89..its possible I could do fine without..but we can’t predict that can...reactions1reply
Things I've Learned About Injections...I have GA and I have Syfovre shots every 5 or 6 weeks. The first thing I’ve learned about getting the shots is that worrying about the unknown is far...reactions5comments
Year 7 Since Diagnosis...My AMD was caught by a smart optometrist 7 years ago. I started vitamins, wore dark sunglasses and a visor on sunny days, and was seen yearly by an ophthalmologist...reactions3comments
Unexpected Diagnosis After Traumatic Event...The only thing out of the ordinary was I had to start with reading glasses a little younger than most. For the next several years my prescription changed pretty frequent...reactions1comment
Geographic Atrophy & Coping With Facial Recognition...I am a 77-year-old woman, dealing with the challenges of macular degeneration and geographic atrophy. I received this diagnosis about one year ago, and I am coping with the challenges...reactions1comment
My AMD Journey...I was diagnosed with Wet AMD in both eyes 4 yrs ago. I had never heard of it. I was about 73 at the time. I started injections in both...reactions3comments
Need More Light!...Seems like everywhere I go, I cant see details anymore. I have to ask what a color is, and there is not much to do out in the stores. I've...reactions1comment
