What are the symptoms and risks of AMD?
Macular Degeneration symptoms include:-
- Blurry distance and/or reading vision
- Need for increasingly bright light to see up close
- Difficulty seeing when going from bright light to low light (such as entering a dimly lit room from the bright outdoors)
- Trouble or inability to recognize peoples faces
- Blank or blurry spot in your central vision
- Distorted vision (straight lines will appear bent, crooked or irregular)
- Loss of central vision
- Size of objects may appear different for each eye
- Colours lose their brightness; colours do not look the same for each eye
Risk Factors
- Increasing age
- If you are a smoker
- If you have a strong family history
- High blood pressure
- Poor diet
Other risk factors include:
- Obesity
- Gender: woman appear to be at a greater risk
- Direct exposure to sunlight
- High cholesterol
There are two types of AMD:-
- Dry age related macular degeneration
- Wet age related macular degeneration
Clinic Location
Cork Eye Clinic
Suite 7/8, Clinic A,
Cork Clinic, Western Road,
Cork, T12 VY83.
Tel: 021 434 1030
Fax: 021 434 1033
Email: bgolchin@corkeyeclinic.ie
VIEW ALLWhat Our Patients Say
After visiting you last Thursday I started applying your prescription drops and ointment 6 nights ago. I have had wonderful results! I am sleeping comfortably for the first time in years. As you know I had been waking very frequently - up to 5 times, with extremely dry eyes, which was distressing and painful.
This is like a miracle for me. I now have hope for the future and thank you most sincerely for your diagnosis, concern and care for my eyes. I wish you and your team every success at the Cork Eye Clinic.
Audrey Donovan (April 2019)
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