Mild Case of Macular Degeneration Starting

My doctor told me I was just starting macular degeneration in one eye. He suggested I start using Bausch & Lomb’s PreserVision Areds 2, which is over the counter. He said clinical trials have proven it helps to slow down the progression of age-related macular degeneration.

I think all the eye doctors recommend AREDS. Mine did and I followed their instructions. Nobody told me of the possible side effects, of which there are many. If you’ll search this forum, you’ll find a whole thread on “AREDS Side Effects”. I recommend reading that and doing some due diligence before you buy any “eye vitamins”. I suffered side effects for a long time before figuring out it was the AREDS that was causing it. I won’t go into it here because it’s all on the other thread. But it’s been exactly a year since I stopped taking the AREDS.

I was told to take Areds as my MD is just starting. Could not take the

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Is there evidence that taking melatonin, lutein, and zinc would have harmful side effects related to Age Related Macular Degeneration? Same question goes for slowing cataract growth. Thank you.

I haven’t read anything or had any experience with taking vitamins for cataracts. But I would expect any side effects that the vitamins may cause an individual would be the same no matter why you were taking it. And, like I said in the post you responded to, there is a long thread with many posts from several different individuals about their experiences with and side affects of AREDS. I think some of them posted that they took the individual vitamins rather than the vitamins as a combination in brands like Preservision. But I wasn’t one of them, so I can’t speak to that other than I don’t have any confidence in vitamin supplements. In one of my posts on the AREDS Side Effects, I provided an article that pretty much explains my reasoning for my opinion on that.

I have not heard of a problem with Melatonin. If you have information, please share.