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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.

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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.

Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) is a condition that some people get when they lose some or all of their vision. It causes them to have hallucinations (seeing things that aren’t really there)

There isn’t a treatment for Charles Bonnet but reassurance that is is a normal part of sight loss is a comfort and confiding in family or friends may be of help.

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.

This Beryl’s story about her diagnosis of macular degeneration and what The Partially Sighted Society means to her.

This is a good example of how the Partially sighted help people with visual impairment.

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.

Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) is a condition that some people get when they lose some or all of their vision. It causes them to have hallucinations (seeing things that aren’t really there)

There isn’t a treatment for Charles Bonnet but reassurance that is is a normal part of sight loss is a comfort and confiding in family or friends may be of help.

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.