Stories

I have been getting shots for 3+ years. My biggest complaint is the discomfort after the shot due to all the Betadine that they are using now. Anybody have any...

I'm 65 yrs of age and live near Mansfield in England. I was diagnosed about 6 months ago after having had a cataract operation. Luckily a very observant practice nurse...

My family is full of blind or half-blind people because of macular degeneration – for generations back. My mom and two of my siblings have been blind from 40 years...

I was diagnosed at 52 with wet AMD in the right eye with no symptoms or anything wrong. I was testing myself one day just to see how eyesight was...

My AMD journey began back in 2006 (age 54) when an optometrist I saw for new computer glasses noticed drusen in both of my eyes. This news was not totally...

I’ll admit that I was horrified when I found out I had wet in the right eye and dry in the left. This was about 8 years ago. The shots...

What do you do to calm yourself before your shots? No joke my doctor said to take a shot before my shot as in a shot of booze! He didn't...

I noticed one morning in June I was having trouble reading the paper. Something looked off. I went that day to the eye doctor. They made an appointment for two...

Almost 2 years ago I noticed a bright light in my right eye. I went to my eye doctor, he realized there was bleeding behind my retina, and he sent...

A year ago @ age 74 I woke up & my right eye had a smear in the center, like Vasaline in my eye. In a few days I went...

I had both parents with dry macular degeneration that never really progressed. My father lived until he was 96, and my mother 108! I was diagnosed with the dry form...

Hi there! My name is Sandy and I am 82 years old. I was diagnosed about 8 years ago (left eye). I have had injections, every 4-6 weeks ever since...

5 years ago I had cataract surgery. A year later, film was detected on my right eye retina. Along with that, something was detected to be wrong with the optic...

My husband started with glaucoma, he did a cataract removal, had a canal operation to drain excessive watering. He is receiving eye injections and that is the hard part, there...

My name is Sue. I am 64 this month. My mother went legally blind at 83 from macular degeneration. Four years ago my eye Dr diagnosed me with this. I...

I am almost 64 and about 1 1/2 years ago I realized that I had a blind spot in my left eye. I knew I had floaters, so I didn't...

At the ripe ol’ age of 5, I was administered my first, of many to come, pair of glasses. Life as I knew it was rather mundane. That was until...

Life can change in an instant! While watching my grandson, I suddenly realized I couldn’t see out of my right eye: I could see light but nothing else. I called...

I was asked how I stayed positive. Staying positive and using positive insight on a daily basis is important even on good days. When something happens to disrupt your normal...

Hello, I am a 64-year-old woman with bilateral dry AMD, diagnosed when I was 58 years of age. My first clue that something was not quite right with my eyes...