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DesertDrifter

01/27/25 4:10 PM

#508940 RE: fuagf #508935

Best of luck and I hope the test drug works on your eyeball.
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zab

01/27/25 4:33 PM

#508942 RE: fuagf #508935

Always a wake up call, life is fragile,  make some changes,  listen to your medical doctors, and always get your life in order, none us live forever. Take it slow, and keep us informed.  I still have my oxygen,  need it sparingly,  but need it daily. 
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BOREALIS

01/27/25 7:36 PM

#508955 RE: fuagf #508935

fuagf, I also have macular degeneration, started almost 2 years ago.

The left eye has the wet MD, and the vision is very,very blurry.
The right eye is dry MD, and my sight is still almost 20-00. I'm still able to drive but no more than 10 miles each time.

I've had some treatments to remove some of the blood clot in the left eye, and to check the condition in the good eye.
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Zorax

01/27/25 9:04 PM

#508965 RE: fuagf #508935

Direct negative experience via my late Father. He was a veteran, and that medical is usually pretty decent. At 73 he went in for wet macular and they insisted that he had to have the newer laser treatments... they didn't tell him that it also destroys good cones too. Maybe better now in the present, but the session left him legally blind in both eyes. His vision wasn't bad at the time. My step mother was beyond livid. She had been seeing another eye doctor who found almost the same problem with her but gave her medicine and glasses which didn't damaged anything. My Dad was rushed so much and his vet doctors wouldn't communicate with her doctor.

I'm still hurt and pissed to this day. It wasn't needed at that time at all. They were paid for a trip back to her England homestead for the summer. All had to be wiped and they sold their nice RV that they were starting to use to travel all over. She tried to do all the driving but it was too tough for her.

so moral of the story, do some research on techniques.