Stories

I started writing music when I was 15. It’s the way I have always coped with life. Growing up in an abusive home, not being able to talk about it...

It started a few months after I fell and injured my head. I required emergency surgery for a head wound. I started seeing a bright orange light that wouldn't go...

I have wet AMD in both eyes. I’ve been getting injections in my right eye for 5 years and in my left eye for 4 years. So far, they work...

I'm blind in my right eye because of dry macular degeneration. Two years ago, I went completely blind in my left eye due to wet macular degeneration. For a whole...

My story is a bit different from most I’ve read. For years, I was prescribed Elmiron for interstitial cystitis (IC). Though it took years to work and was very expensive...

I have no problems with the injections. It is the adverse reaction to Betadine. Agonizing pain. I am 77. I can usually handle pain. I have had a laminectomy, gallbladder...

I was first diagnosed with dry MD in May 2023. I did not take it very seriously because I had no symptoms at all. So in September of 2024 I...

My anxiety arose from pain afterwards. After a discussion with the optometrist, we worked out it was sensitivity to iodine. We did an experiment. Minimum iodine, maximum anaesthesia, maximum washout...

The article by Sharon Moore pretty much recounts my own story. I get injections for geographic atrophy (GA) every 2 months. At our last session, my retinal specialist (who is...

I was told I had macular degeneration by an optometrist. I had thought I only needed a slightly stronger pair of glasses for distance vision. My near vision began to...

I am a 86 year-old female, diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - wet kind. I received my diagnosis about 15 months ago. It has become a challenge for me...

In July 2023, I suddenly noticed a gray disk in my right eye, surrounded by a hazy blur. It came on so quickly that I knew something was very wrong...

I suffer immensely post-injection in both eyes. The doctor thinks it's the Betadine. I take prescribed pain pills (yes, plural), as it is that painful, and then I take a...

I've gotten one approximately every 10 weeks or so for almost 3 years. So far, I’ve never had a problem. I do take a medication every 2 hours afterwards for...

My ophthalmologist must be excellent because I have not experienced any pain from injections. The only things about the procedure that bother me are: Also, needing to rely on another...

In late January 2024, my left eye vision started looking like a fun-house mirror, but it was not fun. I made an appointment with my ophthalmologist and thought, "OK, this...

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...

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...

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...

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...