Age Related Macular Degeneration or AMD
If you are reading this you are probably one of the millions of patients who have heard these frightening words from your eye doctor, "you have macular degeneration."
Macular Degeneration is a horrifying medical condition. If you are suffering from macular degeneration, believe me I know how you feel.
Macular Degeneration is the leading cause of legal blindness in the United States, and the number of cases is growing dramatically with the aging of the baby boomers.
Like you, I am a baby boomer. I was born in 1948, and I have family members, friends, and many patients who have learned that they have macular degeneration.
More specifically this disease is called Age Related Macular degeneration (AMD). It is a disorder resulting in slow and progressive damage to an area of the eye called the macula.
There is a macula in each eye and the macula is part of the retina. This area is the most sensitive vision processing center in the eye.
The retina is the portion of the eye that sends light to the brain. The macula allows for very fine and clear vision.
The disease can occur in one eye or both; however, if it develops in one eye, there is a higher risk that it will develop in the other eye as well.
Understanding that the disease is one that is progressive is very important. Once you have been diagnosed with the illness, there is only one thing that can be done to prevent the disorder from worsening.
I'll get back to this in a moment, but first it's important to understand more about AMD.
There are two types of AMD. There is the wet form and the dry form. continue ==>
Macular Degeneration is a horrifying medical condition. If you are suffering from macular degeneration, believe me I know how you feel.
Macular Degeneration is the leading cause of legal blindness in the United States, and the number of cases is growing dramatically with the aging of the baby boomers.
Like you, I am a baby boomer. I was born in 1948, and I have family members, friends, and many patients who have learned that they have macular degeneration.
More specifically this disease is called Age Related Macular degeneration (AMD). It is a disorder resulting in slow and progressive damage to an area of the eye called the macula.
There is a macula in each eye and the macula is part of the retina. This area is the most sensitive vision processing center in the eye.
The retina is the portion of the eye that sends light to the brain. The macula allows for very fine and clear vision.
The disease can occur in one eye or both; however, if it develops in one eye, there is a higher risk that it will develop in the other eye as well.
Understanding that the disease is one that is progressive is very important. Once you have been diagnosed with the illness, there is only one thing that can be done to prevent the disorder from worsening.
I'll get back to this in a moment, but first it's important to understand more about AMD.
There are two types of AMD. There is the wet form and the dry form. continue ==>
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