Macular Degeneration

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Evaluation of patients' experiences with conventional and alternative therapies at dry and wet macular degeneration. Includes success, risks, cost, addresses...

About Us - How we want to help people suffering from macular degeneration

The organization wants to help people to help themselves who suffer from eye diseases and diseases coming along with them, especially macular degeneration.

The organization follows the above mentioned purpose especially through fullfilment of the following tasks:
  • to further its members and other people and groups as well as the public, to inform about existing treatments and used therapies to ease eye diseases and other diseases going hand in hand,
  • To inform, advise and give practical help to people who are affected by eye diseases and other diseases going hand in hand,,
  • to inform and to educate the public, especially the media and other people and groups about eye diseases and related sufferings its impact and its treatment,
  • to further science, research and education in the area of treating eye diseases and related sufferings,
  • to have an impact on institutions, legal and private foundations as well as other groups and people and thus to further the organization's tasks and its members.
One of the main tasks of SOS Augenlicht e.V. consists of giving macular degeneration patients important information. We want to inform aoubt the risks and side effects of the most important therapies against macular degeneration. Furthermore we want to show possibilities and chances of the most important conventional and alternative medical therapies. For us reports of patients are utterly important, who have made direct experiences with the respective treatment.

The by macular degeneration affected people need sufficient information in order to be able to make a right decision. Because a medic can only suggest a treatment but a patient has to decide for or against it. If the necessary information is amiss he is not able to calculate any possible consequences. A wrong decision can have fatal consequences!

We collected extensive information about the disease macular degeneration by asking over 3,000 affected people and have evaluated this information. This information you find on our website.

The to us reported experiences of patients often do not go hand in hand with the by the therapy promised chances for success. We think that the experience of macular patients is one of the most valuable sign post to a successful treatment.

Often help was possible even then if a patient was seen as not treatable and was considered abandoned.

We wish you all the best for your eyes!

Stephanie Pollok

1. chairman SOS Augenlicht e.V.