Eye Conditions

Cataracts: What They Are and How to Treat Them   Cataracts affect more than fifty percent of Americans over the age of 65. Age related blindness is commonly attributed to the clouding of the lens.  The way your eyes function is through a lens which acts as a “camera” and then captures an image in […]

Advanced aged related macular degeneration (AMD) is the last stage of macular degeneration. What does that mean? It means that there is no longer any treatment that can correct or cure one’s vision loss. Vision loss at this stage is a severe loss of straight ahead vision in both eyes. A black or gray spot, […]

For those of you who are new to the vision world of macular degeneration, the two most common types of age related macular degeneration (AMD)  are dry AMD and wet AMD. The reason for the use of the words “dry” and “wet”  is that in the wet form, tiny capillaries start growing under the macula, […]

Perhaps you or someone close to you has recently received a diagnosis of age related macular degeneration (AMD).  Depending on the eye doctor, an explanation of this retinal disease was very brief or perhaps the diagnosis was so overwhelming it was difficult to hear anything else that was said. I remember when my father-in-law was […]

Awareness of macular degeneration is increasing as the baby boomer population continues to age. In generations long ago, family members knew that grandma or grandpa had lost some of their vision, but they didn’t know why there was loss of vision or the name of the eye disease.  Now thanks to years of research and […]

What are Macular Drusen? If you have been diagnosed with macular degeneration  (AMD) you probably have heard your eye specialist mention something about seeing some drusen during your eye exam.  In fact the development of these yellow deposits are they first signs of AMD.  Some people have them even before they notice any changes in […]

Inflammation plays a clear role in the development of age related macular degeneration (AMD). The normal healthy type of inflammation is the body’s response to a specific area that has had an injury. The body responds by sending blood and nutrients to the tissues around and near the injury.  Although there is often redness, pain […]

Dr. Michael A. Samuel, the author of Macular Degeneration: A Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families, writes, “Modern research into macular degeneration has found that inflammation plays a clear role in the development of the dry form of this disease.”  Dr. Andrew Weil, the author of Healthy Aging believes that inflammation is the common […]

My husband’s father has wet age related macular degeneration (AMD).   Several of his father’s brothers and sisters also had AMD.  If you have a parent or sibling with macular degeneration, you may be wondering, does that mean you will develop it too? Although we can’t say for sure that living with macular degeneration is in […]

Once someone has been diagnosed with age related macular degeneration (AMD) or any disease for that matter, the mind starts asking questions like, how did I get this condition, what caused it or perhaps, could I have done something to prevent it?