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Do you need one to one support?
Support for you
There may be times when you need extra support to help you understand or cope with your sight loss. We offer a variety of services to help you keep your independence and to ensure you never feel alone.
Treatment buddies
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Overcoming the fear of injections
When Hazel was told she would need an injection to treat her wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) she was petrified. But after her first injection her anxieties eased when she realised it was not as scary as it had first seemed.
Questions about injections
Treatment buddies
The current recommended treatments for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic macular oedema (DMO), and retinal vein occlusion (RVO) require injections into the eye (intravitreal injections). Before the injection, the eye is numbed with local anaesthetic and povidone iodine (brand name Betadine) is used to clean the eye and the eyelids.
Make a befriending referral
Telephone befriending in memory of Marilyn Lee
Connect with a friendly voice
We add the details you give us to our database and use them to provide the service or communications you have requested. We process and analyse your data to send you relevant information. We will never sell your data or share it with anyone not directly working on our behalf. For more information, see our privacy policy.
Free counselling and emotional support for sight loss
Do you need one to one support?
Being diagnosed with macular disease or Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) can be overwhelming. You might feel shocked, anxious, fearful or isolated.
Make a counselling referral
Free counselling and emotional support for sight loss
Our counselling service is here to support you.
Please complete the referral form below to request a confidential session with one of our qualified counsellors. Our counselling team will review your request and aim to respond within five working days.
Macular Society Helpline
Do you need one to one support?
Free, confidential support
Being diagnosed with macular disease can leave you and your family feeling isolated and uncertain about the future.
Make a Macular Society Helpline referral
Macular Society Helpline
Connect with essential support
We add the details you give us to our database and use them to provide the service or communications you have requested. We process and analyse your data to send you relevant information. We will never sell your data or share it with anyone not directly working on our behalf. For more information, see our privacy policy.
Would you like support from a group of like-minded people?
Support for you
We provide virtual and face to face support, sometimes one to one and sometimes in group settings. We also run regional information events. So whatever your circumstances, there will always be an option that suits you.
Local support groups
Would you like support from a group of like-minded people?
Our groups offer a warm, supportive space for people with macular disease, their families and friends. They’re a welcoming and compassionate place a find support, build confidence and connect with others. And, of course, it’s a chance to make new friends who really understand what sight loss is like.