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.