AMD Symptoms

Symptoms of AMD can vary from person to person and can even be unrecognizable in the disease's early stages. Occasionally, only one eye will develop vision loss, while the other functions normally, making symptoms harder to detect. When both eyes are affected, symptoms are more noticeable.

Such symptoms can include the following:

• Blurred or fuzzy vision: An early sign of AMD that, in some cases, might become less apparent under brighter lighting conditions.

• Straight lines appearing wavy or crooked: This symptom is particular to wet AMD and can affect both lines seen in near vision, such as sentences on a page, and those farther away, such as telephone poles and the sides of buildings.

• Decreased contrast sensitivity: People with AMD might have difficulty seeing objects that are the same color as their background, for example, black coffee in a black cup.

• A small, but growing, blind spot in the center of vision: Someone with AMD might be able to see the numbers on the circumference of a clock, but not the hands in the middle.

• Decreased ability to distinguish colors.

• Difficulty seeing at a distance.