It seems that I have MD in one eye and the other eye is good. Except that I usually wear spectacles. Now I can see that a pair of spectacles to support only on eye , the other eye being diseased and not all that useful at the moment, what happens about the spectacles -- do they have a prescription lense for the good eye and no lense for the bad eye??? or what? For people with MD in both eyes, I understand that spectacles are of no use at all?
Spectacles and MD??: It seems that I have MD... - Macular Society
Spectacles and MD??
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Everyone is different. My hubby has plain glass in one side ( the bad side) and prescription lens in the other. I have different prescription lens in each side.
If receiving treatment it may be that the prescription changes - I was advised to wait before changing my specs but there comes a point when having an up to date pair is worth the risk of needing to change them again.
The important thing is to maximise whatever vision you have.
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I quite agree with you about maximising the vision you have, but since MD affects different areas of your vision It's tricky because one eye is so strongly supporting the other.
So true. 'Good eye' gets very tired because of it & lots of headaches. I don't know if the ' eccentric viewing' technique the Mac Soc talk about is helped with specs or not?
Hello Bazza,
Before you consider changing your spectacles, please ask your hospital eye unit for guidance.
I believe that you are having injections? Usually they will advise you to wait until you have had your initial 'loading dose' of 3 injections before changing your specs.
Best wishes
Macular Society
Oh yes, definitely wait until after loading dose ( I changed mine much later).
i agree with eyesright on everything she said. I would just like to add that specs can be useful even with MD in both eyes unless your central vision is lost altogether. I believe, however, that there is a limit as to the strength of lenses available. My optician told me at my last visit that I have been given the strongest lens for my left eye they an give me, but it still helps at the moment; I would do very badly with that particular eye. I still wear varifocals at present but I find that when I want to read for any length of time I wear reading glasses.
Yes, my last optician check said they wouldn't change lens in my good eye even though to me it could do with it.
My right eye has had virtually no central vision for the last thirty years, but I wouldn't dream of having plain glass in that side, peripheral vision corrected as far as possible for my extreme short sight (I have myopic macular disease, not age-related) is what gives me some useful depth and movement perception. The left eye is deteriorating too. If your natural lenses need less correction, it may be less of a gain.