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
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I would like to thank you once again for the surgery you performed to remove my cataracts. I expected an excellent result and I have not been disappointed.
It has, as I told you last week, been a life changing experience for me and all the small things, that we take for granted when we are young, have been restored to me.
I can now see every leaf on every tree and every petal on my roses from my sitting room - I am so grateful.
Please would you also pass on to your staff, my thanks for always being so considerate and helpful.
Lenore Campbell (August 2016)
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