By Lim Kim Lan
An MDS member Has anyone been given advice from an opthalmologist about early treatment regimes apart from not straining the eyes, taking nutritious food for eyes, etc? In my own experience, I would consider myself fully predisposed to MD since one of my eyes has been diagnosed with Myopic MD. Yet no one (I have visited 3 different prominent specialists) has offered me any "early treatment regiment" so as to arrest MD developing in my remaining myopic eye (not yet affected by MD). All have just dismissed me with the info that they "can't do anything since yours is a "MYOPIC MD". They merely prescribed some over-the- counter-eye drops for dry eyes and invited me to come back when when my eyes deteriorate! Would love to hear from anyone with other experiences. Thank you. Lim Kim Lan
2 comments:
As an Myopic MD sufferer for 15 years, none of the doctors I have consulted all these years gave me any "early preventive treatment".
Photodynamic Therapy or other surgical procedures were given only after the damage has occured.
If making regular visits to opthamologists could not prevent such damage to my eyes, I wonder if there is really any point in continuing such visits?
I hope other MDS members will share their experience on this topic here.
If there is sufficent interest, this could be the subject of a talk by Prof Au Eong.
Hi Steven,
Like you and Kim Lan, I have never had any early preventive treatment from the doctors. And indeed, there were many times when I wondered if there was any purpose to go for regular consultations.
Over the years, I have come to realise that I am often my own best doctor in terms of diagnosis. That I should be the first line of my own defence. Doctors should play back up role.
Truth is, until we have a better understanding of how and why macular degeneration comes about, it would be hard to come up with an early treatment regime.
But of course, I believe we still need to rely on doctors for treatment.
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