Yes you can have cataract surgery. Sometimes your consultant Ophthalmologist will be reluctant to do this surgery as there is a risk of making the Macular degeneration worse.
Cataract surgery involves removing the lens in your eye and is replaced with a clear artificial lens. Things will seen much brighter but as you have macular degeneration it may not help you to see things in the center of your vision.

Cataracts are generally seen more with age but other medical conditions such as Diabetes can accelerate them.
Cataracts make with vision ‘milky’ or ‘cloudy’ especially when the lighting is low.

Street lights can have a ‘halo’ around them. You find you need to add more light when reading and it is still difficult.

If you need a good light check out this one

For a start a good reputable manufacturer should be chosen for sunglasses.
They should have a lens which has the statement that they are UV400 which means they have been coated with an anti-ultraviolet treatment which covers up to 400 nm.

The colour or tint of the lens isn’t specific to the sunglass and to some degree it depends on the eye condition that you have as to which coloured tint helps.
An amber coloured lens would generally reduce the ‘blue’ in the light entering the lens. Blue light is known to cause more glare than other colours and as such this type of lens would be known as a warm tint.

A grey coloured lens will reduce all colours of light to the same amount.

A yellow coloured lens is known to increase contrast , making dark things darker and light things lighter – it is often preferred by people with Macular degeneration and cataracts.

Yes you can have cataract surgery. Sometimes your consultant Ophthalmologist will be reluctant to do this surgery as there is a risk of making the Macular degeneration worse.
Cataract surgery involves removing the lens in your eye and is replaced with a clear artificial lens. Things will seen much brighter but as you have macular degeneration it may not help you to see things in the center of your vision.

Yes you can have cataract surgery. Sometimes your consultant Ophthalmologist will be reluctant to do this surgery as there is a risk of making the Macular degeneration worse.
Cataract surgery involves removing the lens in your eye and is replaced with a clear artificial lens. Things will seen much brighter but as you have macular degeneration it may not help you to see things in the center of your vision.

For a start a good reputable manufacturer should be chosen for sunglasses.
They should have a lens which has the statement that they are UV400 which means they have been coated with an anti-ultraviolet treatment which covers up to 400 nm.

The colour or tint of the lens isn’t specific to the sunglass and to some degree it depends on the eye condition that you have as to which coloured tint helps.
An amber coloured lens would generally reduce the ‘blue’ in the light entering the lens. Blue light is known to cause more glare than other colours and as such this type of lens would be known as a warm tint.

A grey coloured lens will reduce all colours of light to the same amount.

A yellow coloured lens is known to increase contrast , making dark things darker and light things lighter – it is often preferred by people with Macular degeneration and cataracts.

Cataracts are generally seen more with age but other medical conditions such as Diabetes can accelerate them.
Cataracts make with vision ‘milky’ or ‘cloudy’ especially when the lighting is low.

Street lights can have a ‘halo’ around them. You find you need to add more light when reading and it is still difficult.

If you need a good light check out this one