Macular degeneration

TatinG
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 15:58:07 +0000

My mother has macular degeneration and gets injections in her eyes every few months. She also has drops for her eyes three times a day.

She also has something called Charles Bonnet syndrome. She sees things that are not there. She sees animals by the side of the road. She thinks we are driving into a brick wall. She sees swarms of ants on the walls. She is not hallucinating. She does not have any form of dementia. Apparently when the eyes cannot see well, the brain fills in the ‘blank space’ with images that the brain has stored. It’s the ocular equivalent of phantom leg syndrome. Curious.