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I believe I had AMD sometime in my early to mid 50s. I didn't get it diagnosed until several years later, but I wondered why my eyes were suddenly very sensitive to light and I realized I was colorblind. My eyes also changed from bright blue to green, and I'm not sure why that happened! I'm 65 now with one wet and one dry eye. I've been getting injections for just over a year. Although nobody in my family has AMD (not parents/siblings/grands/cousins/aunts/uncles), my doctor said each of my parents must have had the recessive gene. I guess it's all believed to be genetic. I've extended the injections out to every 4 months, increasing that every time I make a new appointment. They have not been bad other than my doctor treats way past his capacity, so it's a whole day at his office. My vision is normal again. I am grateful I will never lose my sight (according to my doctor).
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You basically had AMD for several years before you were diagnosed. Were you diagnosed late stage/wet at your initial diagnosis? You were not going for regular appointments before you noticed things changing? I apologize for all of the questions I'm just trying to learn everything I can. I went annually for exams and always had good visits then COVID hit and it was hard to get an appointment so I went only two years without an exam then I find out I have intermediate... How did I not know I had early??? I'm about to order my eye exam records going back a few years so I can see what was actually written at my exams. Something doesn't add up. All of my research says early usually progresses to intermediate over 5-8 years. 1-2 years is unheard of. I hope I don't find out I was never told. I hope to God I don't find out the doctor decided not to share that information. I could have been changing a lot of things had I known.
I just found out this year that my father had AMD and my aunt now has it. Why I didn't know will be a lifelong mystery. My dad lived a very independent life, he lived alone, and continued driving until three months before he passed at almost 90. I tell my children and grandchildren that they had an amazing pop. He was a survivor.
You are receiving injections for wet and they seem to be working? You can see good now? Reading, driving, face recognition? Please ask your doctor soon about the dry eye injections. I'm not sure if you have to have late stage /GA. Are you still color blind or is that fixed with the injections.
Which state are you in? I'm in Maryland.
I've been seen by four different doctors and they all seem to think this will not affect me for decades. I want to believe that then I meet people in their 60s with wet AMD n getting injections. IDK what to believe. I just hope that staying healthy, eating healthy, intermittent fasting, walking, taking vitamins will prolong the progression. I'm starting to think it won't because I felt I've always been pretty healthy and here I am with an eye disease most don't have until their 70s and 80s. I'm 56. I'm scared.