Patients with AMD Need Your Help

When I see patients who suffer from AMD, I ask them if they have access to a computer. In Iowa, fewer than half of them use a computer although many had children who could search the internet for them. I am still worried however, that we’re not getting new information about AMD to the people who need it the most. Patients don’t know about AREDS vitamins. They also don’t know what to watch out for so they delay seeing their eye doctor. By that time, the neovascularization is often advanced with scarring and the treatment outcome in not nearly as good as if it’s caught early. Some patients don’t even see the doctor until their second eye is involved. They tell me that they thought they were just getting old and that there was nothing that could be done.

Please let me know if you see an article on AMD in any popular press magazine or publication. We can then pass this information on to patients and doctors. If you have a chance to speak or write to any editors, please let them know that this is a very important subject that needs coverage.

Thanks