What are anti-VEGF injections?

The most common treatment doctors use to slow vision loss from wet AMD is called anti-VEGF injections. These medicines help stop bleeding and leaking from blood vessels in the back of your eye. Most people with wet AMD will get anti-VEGF injections as their only treatment.

When you get this treatment, your doctor will:

• Put numbing medicine in your eye
• Clean your eye to keep it from getting infected
• Put the anti-VEGF medicine into your eye with a very small needle

Anti-VEGF injections usually only work for a short time, so most people need to get them many times. At first, most people need injections once a month. After that, your doctor will tell you how often you need injections to help stop vision loss from AMD.