On 03/27/2013 09:08 AM, W. Baker wrote:
> W. Baker > wrote:
> : Todd > wrote:
> : : >
> : : > I get regular shots in the eye for my remaining one and they work quite
> : : > well.
> : : >
> : : > Wendy
> : : >
>
> : : Hi Wendy,
>
> : : For our records, if it does not violate your privacy too much,
> : : what is the shot?
>
> : : Many thanks,
> : : -T
>
> : Currently it is Eyelea. Before that ws developed it was Lucentis and
> : before that Avastin. There has been fairly rapid development in these
> : meds. the advantage of the Eyelea over the Lucentis is that it can work
> : for as long as 8 weeks. I am currently at 6 weeks and hope to be able to
> : extend that a bit mre at my next visit. With Lucentis I never quite made
> : it to weeks and Avastin, the least expensive, ony held my vision for 3
> : 1/2 weeks. It is a pain and expensive for medicare adn my supplementary
> : insurance, but worth it as I woudl otherwise be legally blind and unable
> : to read.
>
> : As to the vitamins, they hope that taking them may help n preventing the
> : development of the AWMD but all the evidence is not yet in. the standard
> : is Preservision, a Bauch and Lomb patented vitamin combo(at least there
> : are no stor brand or generic version I see ). No guarantee, but no reason
> : Not to take them.
>
> : Wendy
>
> PS-that shot is directly into the eye. That was the big acvance with
> Avastin which ws originally an off label use. By giving the med in a tiny
> dose right into the eye you avoided the bad side effects of Avastin
> injected into the whole sustem , mostly cardio-vascular. The shot into
> the eye gives none of these side effects. what is beign done is shrinking
> the extra bloodvessels which are the cause of the vision problems adn
> ultimately loss of vision through hemhorage of the wildly growing vblood
> vessels. the drug, by shrinking the vessels reduces the distorion of the
> vision and doesn't let the vessels expand to the breaking point, leding to
> central vision loss.
>
> Wendy
>


Hi Wendy,

Thank you. I copied it down for our records. Hopefully MD won't
visit either of us.

-T