Apparently you are only referred to a specialist when it has turned wet as there is no treatment for dry AMD. They supposedly have it written in their notes, but nothing we have has any mention of it. If they had only mentioned the urgency of seeing a specialist if anything changed to hubby or me, I would have known straight away. Have been sending emails back and forth for the past week, but at the end of the day we have to pick ourselves up and get on with it.will certainly get the zinc and luiten to try. Have to say the specialist was a young Australian lady , who was absolutely superb and so upset to have to tell hubby it was too late. She did diagnose it in the other eye too, but that is dry so far. We really trusted our optician too. Just goes to show you can put too much trust in people sometimes.