Greetings @lioness! Thanks very much for writing. Yes, Dry ARD is quite different. Whereas all the wet kind begins dry, only 10% progress to the wet kind (and the profession doesn't know what causes the change).

I have been diagnosed with Dry ARD in both eyes and wet in the right eye. only. I had no idea I had an eye problem apart from needing better glasses. I still don't know when the dry kind is diagnosed and what treatment is advisable (whether there is anything knowing could have helped, to avoid the progression.)

My understanding is that Dry ARD is fairly common - so much so that many patients never know they have it. I. greatly regret having the diagnosis missed (I wonder how). but don't yet know what its symptoms are nor how it affects vision. I am gratefully following your advice about eye care. though it seems that "the horse is out of the barn" regarding. care of the wet kind (apart from the injections which I just began.)

Yes, I read that they are working on injections for the dry variety, wondering what their goal is. Do they destroy the abnormal blood vessels forming under the thinning retina, before they start to bleed?
Hope they succeed soon, thus sparing you and many the blinding stage of the disease!