Question: What medication is in the shot that is given in your eye for macular degeneration?
Answer: There are two medicines available on the market for injection into the eye. For the wet type of macular degneration:Avastin and Lucentis. Both of them consisit of a medicine that is an antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor, so they slow down or stop the growth of bad blood vesseld growing in the eye.
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