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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Mr. Golchin and his team are wonderful, efficient, very professional, always helpful and kind. I was very nervous about having cataract surgery- I needed both eyes operated on and had them done two months apart. Everyone at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork were reassuring and caring. Mr. Golchin came and spoke to me before each operation and was very understanding. The procedure itself was really straight forward. I cant believe the difference the operations have made my sight, which is now really clear and sharp- its like having my young eyes back again! A huge thank-you to Mr. Golchin and his staff, I feel very lucky to have such excellent eye care.
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