What are the most common symptoms of macular degeneration?

What are the most common symptoms of macular degeneration?

Robert K. Maloney (Ophthalmologist) gives expert video advice on: Who is likely to suffer macular degeneration?; What treatments are available for macular degeneration? and more...

As AMD advances, you go from blurring of vision to actual loss of central vision or patchy loss of vision. Hopefully it's been caught long before that because there are some things that can be done to reduce the progression. The earliest symptom of macular degeneration is just blurry vision. As it advances, it sometimes causes straight lines to appear crooked, or you can see breaks in lines. So, a straight line will appear to have a break in the middle. If you see that, it's important to get to your eye doctor quickly, because if caught early enough, certain types of macular degeneration, particularly the wet type, can be treated.