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I'm going to call retinal doc next week and set up an appointment for the week after. I just dont like the way my eyes are doing. I'm hoping to get a kennelog injection then. I think the edema must be spiking.
He couldn't give me one a couple of weeks ago because the batch they were using was causing reactions and they were looking for another lab to make it for them.
Always something.

Thanks for the answer about aspirin. I'm not positive that's an NSAID.

Your retina doctor uses Kennalog too? I'll not be going in for a couple of weeks, but do I need to ask what lab makes the kind I had? Don't know if they'd look it up if I just phoned them today for someone else. Could it be that you should go in even sooner? But he doesn't like the older steroids as well as Kenalogg? Maybe he's already found another lab and didn't think to have someone phone you. Good luck with that.

Some of us are susceptible to edema, and I suspect I may have had some after my latest capsulotomy, but she didn't say so when I went in a month later for checkup, probably had no way of knowing then.

Seems to me the second week is the worst and last night it seemed my worst eye, which may be a little better than 20/80 by now, was seeing better than my usually better one, due to the capsulotomy set back. They say vitrectomy causes months of lower vision. But I think you said you could drive the next day. I'll read again before consenting to that. Advanced diabetes takes a lot out of you, and I guess I need a break emotionally also, having had so many things done since Aug. 2005. Guess everybody heals at their own rate, and it may take some of us six weeks instead of three.

A famous side effect of Zetia for cholesterol, which works in the stomach instead of the liver, is tiredness, so I've temporarily stopped taking that w/out seeing the doctor, may start it again. The experiment helped some. I'm in Michigan, where we have cloudy weather in winter a lot due to the Great Lakes. It gets rather dreary in February.

In another thread here, someone mentions some herbals that help with AMD and diabetes at the same time, Ocuvite Preser Vision

I bought the regular Ocuvite, which has omega three also, so it's what I went with. I hope it helps.
I had to quit taking zetia too because it is broken doen in the kidneys and I was losing kidney function. It really helped my cholestorol, but... So now I just take straight zocor.
Im going to contact doc next week to se if he has the new kennolog. I think an injection would help my vision. I'm also having a ;ot of distortion trying to see through the bad eye with the cataract and the newly cataract free eye. I always get scared when my vision gets worse. I think that the edema kicked in as I have read it often does after cataract surgery.

So now I just take straight zocor.

Im going to contact doc next week to se if he has the new kennolog. I think an injection would help my vision. I'm also having a ;ot of distortion trying to see through the bad eye with the cataract and the newly cataract free eye. I always get scared when my vision gets worse. I think that the edema kicked in as I have read it often does after cataract surgery.

Maybe it was hurting my kidneys too, had some back pain and I assumed it was from a lot of Christmas shopping, walking on hard surfaces. My doctor or pharmacist didn't tell me a thing about zetia affecting kidneys. I'm afraid of statins too. They work in the liver instead of the stomach, but I used to look up bad side effects and remember there were some horror stories but I can't remember details.

Yes, I get a little scared when my vision's down too. I think the Kennalog has me protected from retinal edema, and in sorting a lot of printouts today I found a good one about retinopathy patients having little blank spots in their vision. It's about PEGAPTRAUB, or something like that, being tested, Nov.06.

It takes a while, but one paragraph says within 3 wks of just 1 injection there was significant regression of vascularization, I think the word is. It's for macular edema. A Dr. Gonzalez was giving this report. No adverse effects. But 82 months? Those with the most injections had the most benefits. Maybe Kenalogg's just as good or better.

Sometimes I have to turn my face every which way, to avoid the little holes, , like those "progressive lenses" glasses that are so expensive and take a lot of head movement.