22nd June 2006
It's nice to know some places will exchange your prescription lenses a few times. I never would have thought of that.
I just found a new site about a new drug for macular degeneration coming out THIS month, LUCENTIS, and I'm not sure it's okay to post a link here. I haven't checked the rules in a while. Maybe I can say MDSupport at least, and a search for low-vision aids will list it.
Maybe something like amd.org. I don't think that's exactly it. My pilot son and his fam live in a Baltimore suburb, and this exciting research report is about work at Johns Hopkins. My daughter-in-law had her eyeball reshaped and one of my grand daughters has to have that done too when she's 21. I sent them a copy/paste of some of the article I just read, and I registered for their newsletter. Some say don't have your work done at a teaching hospital. Guess the surgeon gets distracted.
All along I've been meaning to ask you, do you worry about macular degeneration getting worse? This site suggests a lot of things. I think one is olive oil, and statins, which I'm afraid of because of reading of deaths. I'd just started using more olive oil, and I'm on zetia.
I forget what their other good-sounding suggestions were, haven't read it all yet, just bookmarked the site. You can get an information packet in the mail, with a magnetized(?) ansler or amsler grid.
On the one I already have, I can't even see the dot with my right eye, though I enlarged it quite a bit, and have a new blind spot with my left eye but it's small. And About 7 other new drugs are coming on the market, for related diseases. It gives you lots of hope. Now if they just figure a way, besides vitrectomy, to remove retinopathy scar tissue harmlessly. I'm sure you also have some scarring, right? I may read this whole thread again although it's about 9 pages, there's so much in it.
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I just found a new site about a new drug for macular degeneration coming out THIS month, LUCENTIS, and I'm not sure it's okay to post a link here. I haven't checked the rules in a while. Maybe I can say MDSupport at least, and a search for low-vision aids will list it.
Maybe something like amd.org. I don't think that's exactly it. My pilot son and his fam live in a Baltimore suburb, and this exciting research report is about work at Johns Hopkins. My daughter-in-law had her eyeball reshaped and one of my grand daughters has to have that done too when she's 21. I sent them a copy/paste of some of the article I just read, and I registered for their newsletter. Some say don't have your work done at a teaching hospital. Guess the surgeon gets distracted.
All along I've been meaning to ask you, do you worry about macular degeneration getting worse? This site suggests a lot of things. I think one is olive oil, and statins, which I'm afraid of because of reading of deaths. I'd just started using more olive oil, and I'm on zetia.
I forget what their other good-sounding suggestions were, haven't read it all yet, just bookmarked the site. You can get an information packet in the mail, with a magnetized(?) ansler or amsler grid.
On the one I already have, I can't even see the dot with my right eye, though I enlarged it quite a bit, and have a new blind spot with my left eye but it's small. And About 7 other new drugs are coming on the market, for related diseases. It gives you lots of hope. Now if they just figure a way, besides vitrectomy, to remove retinopathy scar tissue harmlessly. I'm sure you also have some scarring, right? I may read this whole thread again although it's about 9 pages, there's so much in it.
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