The First Year: Age-Related Macular Degeneration: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

This book is very informative and helpful, for both me and my partner.

This book was in a list we received from our support group without comment - no pushing, just resrouces. It has some good information but it "sounds like" the author is really full of himself. After visiting their website, and reading archives of others with impaired vision and AMD, it appears he's pushing products against physicians recommendations, and many on his site seemingly think he's a doctor, or have an adoration-complex with this author. No doubt, he means well, but overall as my own doctors have recommended, "always talk to your physician before taking anything" and that includes supplements pushed on a website or in a book.The author's reference to independent living training is spot on - we entered that some years back. Overall, as our group facilitator always says, we need to focus on the things we can change to deal with this disease, not fret about alternative choices, etc. "just talk to your physician." She is correct.For the record, my spouse has had AMD for 10 years and so we tried this book. I wouldn't buy it again. The National Federation for the Blind, and NIH has all the accurate and most up to date information one needs, and there's no pushing one drug treatment over another without adequate replicated studies.

I liked this book very much. It covered a lot of practical questions in a clear, concise way. There weren't too many technical terms used so it was easy to understand and in the back of the book there were appendixes with more information on where to get help, definitions of terms used and much more. I would reccommend this book to any newly diagnosed person it helps explain what is going on and what to expect. It is also a good book for family and friends to read because it gives insight into what is happening to the person with the AMD.

If you are a person who has just been diagnosed with age related macular degeneration, you will find this a useful book. I returned it as it was not what I was looking for: a simple book to encourage my 83 year old mother who has pretty good vision that is not deteriorating. The book is aimed at people more affected with this condition than she is. She may need it later down the road, but hopefully not!

My mother has this eye desease and gave her this book to help her understand what to expect. I ordered it so that I could read and be able to help her understand if she had questions. I am in Indiana and she is in Florida so I can help her with questions and guide her when she sees her doctor.

I was so sad and depressed when I found out I had MD. It started as the dry type and progressed to the more serious wet type. I finally learned how to help myself deal with this. I get shots in my eye and take Maximum Eye vitamins. My Retina doctor was so impressed with my progress, improving by 95%. I owe a lot of this to reading this book and learning how to help my eyes. I would recommend it to anyone who has MD.

As a newly diagnosed macular degeneration person, I am learning what to expect and it is helping me identify the changes that I am experiencing. The book is helping validate the feelings and changes I have. After I finish the book, I plan on passing it on to my family. It is so difficult to explain what I actually see but the book explains it perfectly.I

Ordered this book after receiving the Macular Degeneration diagnosis from my Eye Dr. He gave me no informatin about things I could do to prevent futther damage or any other info. This book is great- learned lots of things I can do to help myself and where to receive additional help. I would likely recommend this book to anyone receiving this ARMD diagnosis.

This is absolutely essential reading for anyone who has been diagnosed with either wet or dry macular degeneration. To be diagnosed is totally frightening and there are hundreds of questions that people want to ask which are answered. Just as important is information you didn't even know you needed - about what treatments work and why, what you can do to slow down the disease, ways of coping that you might not have thought of.It is written by someone who has had the disease for many years and who runs a support forum in a non-hysterical and informative way. A total must.

Very informative book, a must for any one newly diagnosed with AMD, a lot of encouragement given, it certainly gave me huge insight into this very distressing disease.

Must reading for anyone afflicted with this disease.