Early Symptoms of Macular Degeneration: When to Schedule an Eye Exam
Macular degeneration often begins quietly. Many people do not wake up one morning with dramatic vision loss. More often, they notice a small change while reading a menu, threading a needle, checking a text message, or trying to recognize a face across the room. The letters seem faint. Straight lines look slightly bent. A gray smudge appears near the center of vision, then disappears when the other eye takes over. That subtlety is exactly why early attention matters. A