Experiences with

Anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (Anti-VEGF)

Patients are starting to be offered the cheaper anti-VEGF drugs, as existing medicines are no longer subject to patent Biosimilars are important as copying a successful medicine is much quicker and cheaper than developing a new one as the original has already been proven to work.

Hi everyone, I had my first anti VEGF injection this morning, it was s anxious about it, but it was better than I expected. I have a medium to large static black blob ( lower left eye) and a feeling of a foreign body/grit in injection area, runny left nostriltoo, my eye is getting very sore..

I paid to go privately for my first anti vegf injection and the consultant said he would slot me into his nhs clinic for the second but due to probably the jubilee BH my second one will be 5 weeks 2 days after the first - if I need it.

It’s the newer studies I look at which incorporate the more recent anti vegf injections into them. Luckily my vision seems ok-20/20 in my bad eye (bit of distortion in the centre remains) but I can’t just about make out the smaller letters and 6/4 in my good eye (corrected with contacts).

They have classed me as needing an appt in a few weeks but I m aware that the anti vegf injections need to be done in a time frame! Can anyone say what the time frame is? I think NICE recommend within 2 weeks.

But this got me thinking I’m wonder if on a daily basis you eat a dose of anti-VEGF foods like the big seven kale yada yada yada but you do it every day.

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