A Personal Account of Wet AMD

Here's another video about a personal account of one Lee who had wet AMD. His story will be an inspiration to me as he said that he had managed to control the disease after undergoing treatment of Lucentis injection.

Explaining Wet AMD - Video

Watched a video about the progression of wet AMD.
Found it to be informative as it contains animation of how wet AMD can be formed progressively from a dry AMD

Here's the video

Avastin or Lucentis

It had been 5 days since the #2 Avastin injection. I still did not see any improvement in the vision of my right eye. The redness caused by the injection had subsided since yesterday.

Avastin had been used in place of Lucentis in most cases in treatment of AMD as Avastin is cheaper than Lucentis.

This article (http://www.medpagetoday.com/Ophthalmology/GeneralOphthalmology/32445)  by Kristina Flore in Medpage Today argued that Lucentis and Avastin are equally good in treating Wet AMD.

Understanding Wet Macular Degeneration

Since I contracted this disease, I had done some search in the internet and there are some good sites that provide good explanation of Wet Macular Degeneration.

This site http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/amd.htm by All About Vision provide information on the types of AMD, the symptom, causes and treatment. It is a worthwhile site to visit to give you a good understanding of this disease

Another good site that provides comprehensive information about AMD is http://www.patient.co.uk/health/age-related-macular-degeneration by Patient.co.uk.

WebMD had a three-pages information on AMD at this site http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/macular-degeneration/age-related-macular-degeneration-overview and you can listen to it too.

Avastin Injection #2

My right eye getting worse. Now there is a dark patch of an L shape. My vision is down, I can't read

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any lines in the Snellen chart.
Seen Dr Lai last Friday. He didn't say much but I can tell that my condition is bad.
Did an OCT and there is a big swelling.
So Dr Lai suggested that I had an Avastin injection.
I have to stay for 8 hours to claim my insurance.

Today is already 3 days since the friday, I didn't see any improvement. So, hope and pray that I get a better vision in the right eye.

Oh no My Eye

Wake up in the morning and did my usual check on my right eye and alas! the patch of blurriness had increased.
Waked up my wife and told her about it.
Decided to phone GMC to make an appointment but was told today is Dr Lai's operation day (which means that he will not be seeing any patient in his clinic)
Asked to see Dr Jonathan Choon and an appointment made for 2 pm.
Discharged myself from Pantai Hospital (I had a Cholecystectomy on the 7-May-2013) - probably because of the operation that my right eye is bleeding again.
Arrived at GMC at 2 pm but only managed to see Dr Jonathan

Dr Jonathan Choon of GMC

 at 4 pm. 
After examining my right eye, Dr Jonathan confirmed that there is a bleeding and ordered me to have an OCT and also take a photograph of my retina.
Dr Jonathan did not prescribed any treatment just give me some counseling and suggested that a followup to be done next friday. 
I was a bit disappointed as I expected Dr Jonathan to do something instead of just letting the condition be as it is for the next 8 days.

Avastin #1 Injection

Dr Lai suggested that I had an injection into my eyes for there is still some fluid in the retina.
So, today we check in the hospital at 9:00 am and I was admitted as a day care case in a 6 bedded room.
It is not fun to be in the ward but luckily the other patients are friendly.
Only called to the clinic at 5:00 pm
I was nervous but nevertheless I trusted Dr Lai to give the best treatment.
The injection went smoothly, I only feel a slight prick in my eyes but I was able to see the fluid flowing into the eye.

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I managed to drive back to Bukit Mertajam in the condition where my right eye had become blurred.