In 2009 I was diagnosed with dry macular. It was ok but now I have noticed it is slightly worse. When I was first diagnosed I was referred to the eye hospital for a consultant to look. He said there is nothing they can do and discharged me. He said come back if it gets much worse. The optician I was under gave me eye vitamins and I have dry eyes and she gave me eye drops to use about 4 times a day. She retired so I went somewhere else and was not happy so tried a new one today and it was awful. She scanned my eyes and said she did not like what she saw. She said I have bleeding or whatever at the back of the eye and the whole of the back was covered in macular and she wanted me to go back to the eye hospital. She was surprised I had not been back to the hospital in 10 years and I said because my other optician said it was not required. Apparently I have different eyes and have a stigmatism and had a squint as a child. I apparently have the right eye worse than the left and when I see I focus more on the left eye so my vision is through the left eye which compensates for the right eye. This optician said only use the dry eye drops when you feel your eyes are dry but the other opticians said 4 times a day or the eyes will get more and more dry. I left the appointment today very upset because the woman told me that I may need eye injections. I am NEVER going to see her again and before I go to the eye hospital I am getting a second opinion. I do not feel the optician was very good and she did not even do the eye field test and when I asked whether it would be done she said no
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