Testing of your visual sharpness at far and near distances and a detailed evaluation of how words look on a page when reading. Visual functioning status to assess how each eye works separately and how both eyes work together to see far and near objects. Your mobility can also be assessed to determine your risk for potential problems if AMD affects your ability to walk and drive. This is the easiest way for you to monitor yourself at home. A few people in the early stages of wet AMD may be helped temporarily by treatment with lasers focused on the retina to destroy new blood vessels growing beneath it.
Laser therapy can also seal off leaking vessels and prevent further bleeding and vision loss.
Before considering laser therapy, your eye care practitioner should inform you about any potential problems that can occur with laser treatment and assess whether you are a good candidate for this kind of therapy. Eye care practitioners trained in behavioral and functional therapy can plan a vision therapy program to help you maintain reaction times and continue to read and remain mobile. While there currently is no cure for AMD, promising research is being done in a wide variety of areas, including radiation, nutritional, drug, and surgical therapies. We must continue to look for ways to prevent or delay the progression of this condition, so that future generations of older Americans will not be disabled by macular degeneration. Prevent Blindness America.