What are the symptoms of age-related macular degeneration?

Decreased vision: Both the wet and dry forms of armd cause decrease in central vision. Distortion is often an early symptom and an amsler grid is a good self screening tool. Vision loss from the dry form is usually slowly progressive and lessor in degree than the wet form which can have very dramatic decrease in vision that is rapid and significant.

Blurred vision: Early stages of macular degeneration may have no symptoms . As amd progresses, patient notice blurring of vision and sometimes distortion of object.( tile lines in a bathroom bending and irregular. Profound central vision loss, with peripheral vision sparing is seen in advanced amd. Wet amd refers to leakage of fluid or bleeding. This usually causes a sudden decrease in vision.