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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Thanks y'all - I need the encouragement. I suppose this means eye surgery #11. I'm hoping that instead of an operation, that maybe it is small and they can put a shot into the eyeball. The stuff they use, avastin, sort of sticks to the blood and makes it settle into the back of the eye, where it can maybe be re-absorbed. It also sort of kills off the offending bleeding artery in there.
This sort of flies in the face of the common sense rule to keep pointy things out of your eye.
I'm just very depressed to be doing all of this again.
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Oddly, I'm being treated with that now. I have wet macular degeneration, with a ruptured blood vessel bleeding into the center of the retina in the right eye. This causes a hump in the retina, and visual distortion.
I was fascinated to note that Avstatin was developed as a drug to fight cancer, and has an unexpected beneficial side effect. It's flattening the bump on the retina and vision is improving.
Improvement has been slow but steady over a period of about 6 months of monthly injections. There's still enough blur that I can't conveniently read with that eye unless I use a magnifying glass, but it's much better than it was, and I suspect may be correctable with prescription glasses down the road. (I use OTC reading glasses now.)
My mother was legally blind from macular degeneration when she died. The medical technology has gotten much better since she had the problems, and we can actually treat it, so I'm
not complaining.
(But I doubt anyone gets
used to an injection in the eyeball...)
I hope your treatment comes out as well as mine appears to be.
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Dennis