She doesn’t like it, but she goes in. I don’t have any idea if that’s similar to what you are dealing with, but I guess the idea of injections in the eye is always intimidating. Good luck!

I'm not worried about the shot itself, I'm wondering if it is going to work.

I wouldn't care if they stuck a fork in my eye, as long as it worked!!

About a week later after the blood had filtered out they used a laser to repair it.

I didn't get any injections for it but I made an immediate and full recovery after the laser surgery.

Eye procedures can be scary but I bet you have a great ophthalmologist. I also bet you'll come through with flying colors.

I'm so happy that you recovered nicely!

But it stopped the bleeding. This medication is new and very expensive so I hope insurance covers. I am scheduled every 3-4 months now instead of monthly so far no more damage to retina. Have vision all around the damaged area. It takes some doing to get use to.
They numb your eye with drops so very little pain.
Let me know how it goes.

I had wet macular deneration in 2000. I was treated with laser surgery. It stopped the bleeding and saved the vision in my right eye.
In 2018, I had cataract surgery on my right eye. The quack didn't tell me the surgery might affect the retina, but it did. I wanted laser surgery, but no one was offering it, even the place I had gone to in 2000.
I went to Cleveland Clinic to get shots, once a month. I had to stop because of Covid. I think I got 6 shots. I lost more vision because of the cataract surgery, but I think the 6 shots I got prevented even more vision loss. My vision is stable, even if it isn't the way it was. The shots were stressful, so I got a prescription for Atavan. Unlike you, the idea of getting a needle in my eye was nerve-wracking. I had a good relationship with the dr. at the clinic.
Be sure to talk to your doctor, let them know any concerns you have. Read any handouts, have a ride home, because your vision will be blurred. You can get floaters or blood spots that go away in 1-3 days. Keep an eye on them.
My sister got shots regularly. It was at least a year, maybe longer.
Good luck!

Will be thinking of you and hoping for the best outcome.

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The injections of Avastin definitely helped me, given how wet macular degeneration (from a very rare genetic condition called PXE) in the other eye started before that treatment was available and I quickly went legally blind in that eye.
I received injections in my "good eye" almost monthly from about 2006 to 2011, and I never became legally blind in that eye! There's a few minor distortions which remained, but they're trivial.
For some unknown reason, the choroidal neovascular growth and leakage into my retina stopped in 2011, which was a big emotional and financial relief for me. Insurance wouldn't pay a penny for my shots, since they were deemed "experimental" despite how they worked great.
The manufacturer of Avastin, called Genentech, later modified it specifically for eye injections. That drug was called Lucentis, but my insurance wouldn't help pay for that one either because Lucentis only had FDA approval for AGE-RELATED macular degeneration, not my rare PXE-caused MD. I was in my 30's and 40's when I was going through it, typically surrounded by the very elderly while I sat in the waiting room of my retinologist's office.
The shots aren't bad at all, but some people wrongly assume they're like torture. Small needles injected quickly into the numbed side of the eye. My doctor numbed my eye with a cotton swab covered in anesthetic a few minutes before the shot. A speculum was used to keep the eyelids open during the brief injection, of course.
If you already have blind spots, or areas where the photoreceptors have already perished, the shots won't help you. Anti-VEGF shots only help to maintain the photoreceptors, by averting scar tissue which naturally develops from the bleeds. It's the scar tissue which interferes with the extreme metabolism of the photoreceptors, basically causing them to drown in their own waste. Photoreceptors don't regenerate, unfortunately. Once they're gone, they're gone forever.
The most stressful part of that period of my life was hearing the ophthalmologist constantly complaining that I needed to see him much sooner for the shots, or the scar tissue would destroy my vision. Yet his assistants wouldn't schedule be sooner! They'd moan about having many other patients, so I'd just have to wait a week or two. Rinse, repeat.
The doctor was mostly worried about "covering his own ass", or he would've put a notation in my file to schedule me ASAP like he supposedly demanded. He'd say that I was still working age, so I was a priority over his retired patients. Yet his assistants NEVER got the memo.
So I'd be very anxious as another day would pass with a big distortion in my vision, caused by a new retinal hemorrhage, imagining the development of irreversible scar tissue. (The distortions were like someone pressing on the back of a movie screen.)

However, I'm here sending you positive healing energy and vibes. AND I'm sending best wishes to you.

Please keep us posted.