A friend has had 2 injections for wet macular degeneration and experiencing soreness of the eye and around the eye, floaters and blurry vision. Last injection was 2 months ago and still has these symptoms.
He went for second opinion and that doctor told him it is now dry macular degeneration. Can't find any info on going from wet to dry. Has anyone heard of this? Thank you 
Hi Dbakepa,
I have wet macular degeneration and my doc said once I have it, it's always called wet macular even when the bleeding stops. My injections stopped the bleeding so I thought it went wet to dry, but I guess not. I will still need injections to keep it from re-bleeding he said.
Hi, glad injections are working. Perhaps the doctor meant the leakage had dried up and therefore was dry. If you have Wet MD you will probably be like the rest of us and have periods where there is no leakage and then leaks occur again and it's back to injections.
The difference between wet and dry MD is that in wet new blood vessels have grown and bleed or leak fluid onto the macula, which causes damage that cannot be repaired at present. Hence, the symptom remain and should always be regarded as wet MD even if the leakage has stopped and the vessels may well have shrunk. As a rule, it is only a matter of time, although the time span varies from person to person, before the leakage or bleeding returns, but it will not go back to being dry MD.
Could it have been a misdiagnosis in the first place I wonder?
A friend had a diagnosis of wet AMD but when she moved house to a different Health Trust and saw another consultant she was assured that she had the dry version, she has had no injections and no deterioration in her vision over 10yrs.
Hello Dbakepa,
The other posters have given some sound advice.
Your friend appears to have reacted well to the injection treatment so far as he only needed 2 injections to date to halt his wet macular degeneration (AMD).
When this happens, his condition is often then described by clinicians as 'dry' AMD.
Hopefully he will continue to be monitored by an eye consultant as whilst his wet AMD is now stable, it could potentially reoccur.
Best wishes
Macular Society
Dear Dbakepa,
According to the latest NICE Guidelines for treatment of AMD, issued in January 2018, it is noted that health professionals should refer to treated stable wet AMD as "wet inactive AMD" following treatment, rather than describing it as "dry AMD".
Regards
Macular Society
Thank you!
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