Amblyopia, also known as “lazy eye”, is a common vision problem in children that develops from birth up to age 7 years. It is the leading cause of decreased vision among children and can affect both eyes if left untreated. The condition is usually present in approximately 2 – 4 of the U.S. population and is more likely to be present in preverbal children.
Amyloidosis, or lazy eye, is a neuro-developmental vision condition that typically develops before a child turns eight years old. It is estimated that 1 in 50 children develop this condition. If left untreated, amblyopia may keep your child from developing normal vision. Lazy eye symptoms usually appear when an eye is not functioning properly and fails to send sharp images to the brain. It is most common in young children and can be detected through eye exams or other tests that assess an infant’s or toddler’s ability to fix their gaze.
The risk of developing amblyopia increases if a child is born early (premature) or has a weaker eye that often wanders inward or outward. A lighted magnifying device can be used to detect cataracts, while other tests can assess an infant’s or toddler’s ability to fix their gaze.
It is important to diagnose and treat amblyopia as early as possible to prevent it from worsening over time. If left untreated, amblyopia may keep your child from developing normal vision. It is estimated that 1 in 50 children develop a lazy eye, and it is equally common in boys and girls.
In conclusion, amblyopia is a common vision problem that can be diagnosed early on. It is crucial to address this condition as early as possible to prevent further damage to a child’s vision.
📹 What do children experience before lazy eye (amblyopia) treatment?
In this video, Naz Raoof discusses the experience of children before lazy eyes (amblyopia) treatment. If you think your child has …
What can cause sudden lazy eye?
Lazy eye, a condition causing reduced vision in one eye due to abnormal visual development early in life, is primarily caused by muscle imbalances. This imbalance can cause the eyes to cross in or out, preventing them from working together. Amblyopia, which typically develops from birth to age 7, is the leading cause of decreased vision among children. Early diagnosis and treatment can prevent long-term vision problems, and the affected eye can typically be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, or patching therapy.
Can you slowly develop a lazy eye?
Amblyopia is a condition where the eye’s vision is impaired due to a condition that affects one eye. It can be born early, smaller than average at birth, have a family history of amblyopia, childhood cataracts, or other eye conditions, or have developmental disabilities. The cause of amblyopia is often unknown, but it can also be caused by a different vision problem. The brain may turn off signals from the weaker eye and rely on the stronger eye.
Will a lazy eye correct itself?
Amblyopia is a condition that cannot be treated on its own and can lead to permanent vision issues, including blindness in the affected eye. It is often difficult to identify if a child has amblyopia, as most are diagnosed after an eye exam. Symptoms include a child bumping into objects, favoring one side of their body, squinting, tilting their head to one side, having crossed eyes, and having a droopy eyelid. These symptoms are not permanent and can be difficult to detect.
Why does my child suddenly have a lazy eye?
Lazy eye, a condition causing reduced vision in one eye due to abnormal visual development early in life, is primarily caused by muscle imbalances. This imbalance can cause the eyes to cross in or out, preventing them from working together. Amblyopia, which typically develops from birth to age 7, is the leading cause of decreased vision among children. Early diagnosis and treatment can prevent long-term vision problems, and the affected eye can typically be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, or patching therapy.
Will a lazy eye eventually go blind?
Lazy eye, or amblyopia, affects 3 to 5 percent of the general population and can lead to permanent vision loss if not treated early. Amblyopia occurs when the brain suppresses or ignores the vision of one eye, favoring the other. Babies are not born with good vision in each eye, but must develop it between birth and 7 years of age by regularly using each eye. If vision is not developed properly, the affected eye becomes amblyopic, and it is crucial to detect this condition early to prevent permanent vision loss.
One eye may have significant uncorrected nearsightedness or farsightedness, while the other does not, or in some cases, significant astigmatism. Early diagnosis and treatment can help restore the sight in the lazy eye.
Can a lazy eye be temporary?
Amblyopia is a condition that cannot be treated on its own and can lead to permanent vision issues, including blindness in the affected eye. It is often difficult to identify if a child has amblyopia, as most are diagnosed after an eye exam. Symptoms include a child bumping into objects, favoring one side of their body, squinting, tilting their head to one side, having crossed eyes, and having a droopy eyelid. These symptoms are not permanent and can be difficult to detect.
Can a lazy eye develop later in life?
Amblyopia, also known as “lazy eye”, is a common eye condition that typically develops in children under the age of seven. It is caused by the brain focusing more energy on one eye than the other, leading to the other eye being ignored and resulting in one “lazy” looking eye. This condition is not lazy at all, but the nerve within the eye is not connecting with the brain to its full potential. Without proper intervention, the nerves responsible for vision do not mature properly. Some signs and symptoms of Amblyopia include:
- Eye strain or strain: The eye may experience pain, tingling, or sensitivity in one eye.
- Eye strain or strain: The eye may experience pain or sensitivity in one eye, causing it to wander inwards or outwards.\n3
In conclusion, Amblyopia is a common eye condition that can develop in adults, but early diagnosis and proper treatment are crucial to avoid long-term vision disruptions and the possibility of complete blindness.
Can you fix a lazy eye?
Lazy eye, or amblyopia, affects approximately 3% of children, and it can be effectively treated with the use of eye patching and corrective lenses. The optimal outcomes are observed in children aged seven or younger when the condition is addressed in a timely manner.
How do they fix lazy eye in kids?
Lazy eye caused by a squint is typically treated with an eye patch and glasses, if necessary. Research shows that treatment with glasses and eye patches improves vision in children with a squint. If the squint is severe, surgery may be used to tighten or loosen eye muscles, aiming to improve spatial vision and reduce the squint’s noticeableness. However, surgery does not directly improve the lazy eye problem, so it is typically only done after treatment. Some people worry that covering the healthy eye could weaken it due to reduced use during treatment, but research has not found this to be the case.
📹 What is LAZY EYE (Amblyopia) and What Causes It
Thankfully, if caught early, amblyopia or “lazy eye” can be treated and oftentimes vision can be improved.
Although I do not have a lazy eye, i never used to know I had bad vision when I was a kid. My eye exam in the 3rd grade got interrupted by a phone call early on, and after the school nurse was done with the phone call, she dismissed me and my poor vision to live out ANOTHER 2 years of poor grades. When I did finally get glasses (in the fifth grade) i just could not get over the individual leaves on the trees and my teacher’s face (i sat in the back of the classroom). Thank goodness my poor eyesight was brought to light – i thought i was stupid – bit i was just very nearsighted!
Thank you once again. This time you have covered my granddaughter. Erica had a turned eye that over years of wearing a patch, being bullied by other children was operated on. Sadly her brain had already turned the vision of that eye off. She is 18 now with an A average in her final year at school. She is amazing good at art, & was surprised when she said she sees things in 2D, not 3D. I don’t really understand. She has to take a picture of the thing she wants to draw before she can draw it. Yet the result looks life like.
I was diagnosed with amblyopia when I was about 10 years old, and of course by that point, it was pretty much too late to do anything about it. I did the eye patch thing for awhile, I had glasses that actually made my dominant eye worse (HATED that) and nothing really helped. My amblyopia was caused by convergent strabismus, but the misalignment was so subtle that it went undiagnosed for many years.To this day, my weaker eye is unable to read text unless it is enormous, but overall the vision in that eye is halfway decent.
One of my adult nieces was born with amblyopia of her right eye. My sister and brother in-law did get her help with an excellent pediatric eye specialist early on. Everything was tried, including surgery (about eighteen years ago), and she did have temporary correction in her affected eye, but sadly the amblyopia returned. She was too afraid to try any other treatments after the surgery failed. She does have some deficit with her depth perception, but otherwise leads a totally normal life.
My left eye is my lazy eye and turns inwards! I am very fortunate to have been treated when I was young and wore glasses to correct my vision – though I received some teasing and kids that were at my age being a bit frightened of me, it’s definitely no where near that bad as to what many others have experienced. Loved this article tons! I wanted to learn how it really works and I was not disappointed:)
I’ve known a few people, which has led to a growing curiosity in the back of my mind over the years as to what exactly the condition is. Nowadays I’ve had someone with a lazy eye marry into my family, and a few people i regularly watch on YouTube also have one, so the topic has been fresh on my mind again, and just now i finally remembered to look it up. Thanks for this simple and concise lecture!
I was told I had a lazy eye by my optometrist when I was a kid. I saw him 11 times over the course of 17 years. I complained of blurred and double vision, and he told me there is nothing he can do and prescribed me the same glasses. I went to a different optometrist when I was 20 years old. Turns out I never had a lazy eye, I had accommadative esotropia with a very high ac/a ratio. I needed bifocals and / or surgery; medial rectus recession I can pick between blurred and double vision. My vision picks blurry mostly, i have difficulty holding double vision for clarity unless i close one eye. He told me the reason my vision was blurred was because my eyes weren’t working together because my left eye was “lazy.” I can’t think of anything that has affected my life more than this. The plus side is I am finally getting surgery, and i have 20/20 vision in both my eyes, I probably prevented any amblyopia because I patched my dominant eye for thousands of hours as a kid in hopes of fixing it. Looking through my records, I never once had amblyopia. My ability to blur out (not accommadate) my vision made him miss it during the prism bar test. The times I did accommodate he called it a “occassion esotropic flick” or “dip” Just because someone has “doctor” in front of their name doesn’t mean they know what they are talking about or care to help you. When I told my ophthalmologist what happened, she was not surprised at all. Makes you think how often things like this happen
Your point about children not realizing their vision is impaired really resonated with me. In 4elementary school I struggled academically and have a faint memory of not being able to see the board clearly, so I turned my attention to drawing instead, which didn’t sit well with my teachers. It wasn’t until I got glasses at the age of 12 that I experienced a revelation. I was amazed to see that trees weren’t just green blobs but consisted of individual leaves.
I was diagnosed with lazy eye at the age of 12. I thought my glasses corrected the problem. My right eye was 20/2400. So very bad. Now I am in my 50’s and started having vision that would change and would not snap back for days at a time. Sometimes so bad I didn’t think I should drive, so I didn’t. Finally went to an ophthalmologist and he explained this lazy eye thing to me. My good eye has been doing all the work all these years and now that I am older my brain cannot correct for it as much. Plus I have very dry eyes from over using my good eye. Hopefully the steroid eye drops will help, better already. Still mad at my mother for not taking me to an eye Dr. before I was 12.
Hey! Thanks for the article. I’m from Brazil and I found out my ‘lazy eye’ condition when I was 8 (I’m 25 now). I wore a patch for about 3 years, was bullied a lot in school for that and unfortunately the results were almost nothing. I still hope to see better someday. In addition, I have a question: is there any obstacle for people with this condition from driving? Thank you!
I’ve been complaining recently about blurred vision and intermittent focusing on my left eye which is my better eye. Eye exam turned out normal. But the optometrist assistant noticed I have mild lazy eye. They never really mentioned anything about treatment and still say they don’t know why I’m having vision issues even with glasses. But this article made everything clicked. Thanks to you, I can bring this up to my ophthalmologist. I’m surprised it was never mentioned. And now it makes sense why some people would tell me sometimes they see my eyes crossing, I thought they were just talking about my heterochromia so I shrugged it off.
I get the fear of having a lazy eye, as I’ve had one my whole life, and have been bullied for it, but I don’t get being proud of it. I personally see no benefit to having one, both from a visual and a pragmatic standpoint. It’s a hinderence, but I’ve gotten used to having it, and instead of being proud, I am more so just comfortable with having it, and people knowing I have it.
I was born with retinopathy of prematurity. I have a scleral buckle in my left eye, and my right is lazy. I didn’t know the condition is neurological. I’ve actually learned more on this website about my eyes than any appointments I’ve been to. Lately though, my vision has darkened quite a bit. Doc says nothing’s wrong; I may get a second opinion.
I have strabismus with amblyopia in my left eye. Hereditary. I hated patching as a child. As I aged my left eye traveled further out. I had successful eye muscle surgery in my 30s. Doc said I would get a good ten years with it straight. I’m at about 14 years and things are still good. I do get double vision slightly when I am very fatigued. I also attempted prisms previously without success. Surgery was one of the best things I did.
I have amblyopia in my right eye!! This article illustrates the experience really well. I was diagnosed at 6 years old, so we did some patching but it was a little too late to make much of a difference. As a 25 year old adult, I wear glasses but still notice a huge difference between my vision in each eye. I’ve never had great depth perception and wasn’t able to play most sports involving catching or throwing a ball growing up. I’ve also been known to break and drop a lot of things because of my lack of depth perception. Other than that, I’ve lived a fairly normal life. Overall I see the condition as more of a minor annoyance than anything else. I’ve never really felt like I’m missing out on much, it’s just a silly thing that contributes to me being me 😊
Thank you so much for the info.. Im having a hard time with my eyes ever since when i was a kid, and im having a hard time explaining my self whenever i have eye check up, until there is one ophthalmologist said that i have lazy eye,. Now i have idea with amblyopia, I will try to do further study with this to also understand my condition, 😊
I had an eye infection last year and I got treatment for it with some kind of medicine. But now I have constantly blurry vision in one eye and it drives me nuts. If I dry out the eye to air it gets better, if I sleep too long it gets worse all day but if I wake up too early it’s almost perfect but then gets worse over the day. I feel less in it, I see better without it, it sticks out at everything I look at and it produces less tears now so when I went to the eye specialists they told me this along with some reflective error something wrong in the eye. All she said was some eye drops. I was there once before and he only said it’s mostly my swollen eyelid doing it. It wasn’t. And nobody mention anything of any treatments or anything. All they ever ask is if i’ve ever had glasses or lenses and that’s it. All she could do for me this time was pull out three annoying eyelashes that pointed inwards at my eye and it stung me several times.
4:55 ‘how often do you see a kid walking around tearing their vision between their right and left eyes? It just doesn’t happen’ I actually used to do this all the time as a kid as well as trying to double my vision, holding a finger out and having it double in one direction and then trying to make it double in the opposite direction. Now that I think about it I used to do that kind of thing all the time. I was a weird kid though. Maybe I should have become an optician! Always had 20:20 vision so it wasn’t anything related to poor eyesight, I was just fascinated by the fact that I could change the appearance of my outward seemingly fixed reality almost like taking an hallucinogen(although I wouldn’t have put it that way as a child).
I had glasses from 4 years old due to a very pronounced right lazy eye. I was bullied a lot at school and became very insecure about it so about 10 years ago i had both my eye lenses replaced and laser surgery and have had nearly perfect vision ever since. Best thing I ever did!! Changed my life. I am in my 60’s.
My left eye is absolutely horrible. It’s always been WAY worse than my other eye. So much so you can tell through my glasses lenses, my right eyes lens is not to thick while my left eyes is! My parents have even thinned out the glass 🫠 But both of my eyes have really bad lazy eye. And I was wondering how I could fix it quickly so I won’t be made fun of anymore?
It annoys me whenever I get an eyeglass, and I’m seeing 100% with my right eye and only 50% with my left eye. I have astigmatism in both eyes but only my left eye has nearsightedness. Edited on 13 September 2020 : first of all I am sorry for not replying. When I commented I didn’t get my eyeglasses yet, I got my eyeglass back in January 2020 and its prescription. From the prescription I can tell that my eyesight doesn’t improve by wearing an eyeglasses, as my left eye is still stuck at 6/12 even with an eyeglasses. But my right eye did improve to 6/9 with an eyeglasses (6/12 without eyeglasses).
Dr. Allen is right about small children not thinking much about the symptom of lazy-eye. Like myself, I have lazy-eye, but never had any reference to what normal vision was as a small child. Born that way I guess? Now, at 65, I still couldn’t imagine what it’s like to see with both eyes “at the same time”, even though I have glasses to correct vision in my good, and bad eye. The bad eye is about 20/30 vision, but my brain will not use it unless I cover up my good eye to force it to work. Think my brain says “use this eye, or the other, but not both”. Sometimes I do cover up my good eye when it gets tired, esp. when reading.
I have had lazy eye since as far back as I can remember. I remember as a little girl my option told my parent to put a giant sticky plaster over the lense that was my good eye, as you can imagine I had a lot of issues. I hated my glasses so much as a kid I used to shove them down the sides of the sofa, or accidentally on purpose sit on them and break them. Now approaching 50 I am becoming more reliant on them now. I am lucky to be blessed with a fantastic optician that is incredibly helpful, and a wonderfully charming and funny bedside manner.
I found out I had amblyopia at the age of 6 when an eye care professional came to my school for a general eye examination. I was diagnosed with only 5% vision in my right eye. I never said anything until then because I thought everyone had an eye with better vision than the other. Somehow it made sense until the eye examination results got notified to my parents and we started treatment, which included patching and eye therapy. It lasted 2-4 years and I had already 60% vision in my lazy eye. Eventually I stopped treatment because of low self-esteem and bullies in school. I am now 21 years old, and I know my right eye has already lost some sort of vision, but still hoping my sight doesn’t get any worse. I do believe people should be better informed about the consequences of amplyopia and understand that the kids itself might not have a clue on what’s really going on with their health, and later it might be already too late for a lazy eye to be treated.
Hey there doc Not related to the article, I just have a small dellema. I have a really bad sensitivity to light (my eyes don’t dilate) and I was wondering if you had a article or know something that explains this, It’s very irritating and I don’t know what to do to help it. Any help is very much appreciated, thank you.
I had this for many years I noticed it when I was 16. When looking in the mirror my right eye was slightly off and even looking at someone else in the eyes seemed a bit different, like it was off centered. The cure to this is staying very hydrated, once I started to intake alot of fluids my right eye when back to normal and now I could look at someone right into the eyes and everything is perfect. I don’t know why it took me 20 years to figure this out.
I am 11 and I have a lazy eye too and when I was at school and they made fun of me they roasted me too and I don’t know how to fix this when I came home I told my mom she said she will talk to the doctors about it but she didn’t and now I am sad about my eye that when I try to look at an object my eyes look somewhere else it was better if i died 😢
I’m really happy I found this article and I would love to share my experience and I hope that Dr. Allen is able to see my comment. I have Amblyopia and have a “lazy” left eye. I was diagnosed at age 4 and wore glasses from age 4 to age 16. I saw an eyeit doctor for over 13 years and my left eye always wandered and I wore a patch over my left eye glass frame on my glasses to try to strengthen the vision in my left eye. This is a neurological condition in which the connection between the brain and eye does not develop normally and you begin to just look and see and focus out of one eye. This doesn’t mean you are blind in one eye. I can still see colors and shapes and images out of my bad left eye. But if you ask me to read words or letters, at any distance, no matter how big or small, I wont be able to decipher them. Even a stop sign from 10 feet away. While staring at the stop sign from the sidewalk while walking towards it. I have 20-180 vision in my left eye but 20-15 vision in my right. When I was 15 I had eye surgery to pull and tighten the muscle in my left eye so that it doesn’t wander as much and I stopped wearing glasses. I recommend not drinking if you have amblyopia because alcohol can make your vision in your impaired eye even worse and cause your lazy eye to significantly become more out of sight or focus and more negatively impact your lazy eye
When I was little I had a muscle imbalance that caused my left eye to wander out. The doctor gave me prisms and exercises to use to strengthen the eye so that when it wandered I could pull it back in. I was 10 at the time and I still remember using an index card with dots on it where I would cross my eyes to focus on each progressively further away dot. I’m in my 30s now and while my eye can wander when I’m tired I can always bring it back in.
Trying some patches on glasses to see how that works. Vision therapy is too expensive and not covered. Got strabismus from chicken pox on the cornea at age 12. Surgery on one eye then and the other 30 years later. Have a vertical stigmatism in one and horizontal in the other. Using prism glasses. Let’s just say, its rough getting that good ol vision right. Great article! Glad you help all the people with these issues.
Hey doc, I’m currently in school for biology hoping to go to school for optometry at Pennsylvania college of optometry. I know you have a lot on your plate with all of the article recommendations you have, but it would be such a help if you could eventually post a article about how your college experience was and maybe some recommendations!
I have strabismus exotropia. I realized I had it when I was 12 but my family didn’t really mind. But I really hate how my left eye randomly goes outwards so I convinced my family to get my eye checked. Now, I was able to have my prescription glasses at the age of 15. My doctor said that it may be a long process of treatment as I’m already older but she does have cases like this around my age that was able to have improvements. I do hope it improves overtime.
Hi, can you please make a article on nystagmus too? 🙂 I have amblyopia due to strong nystagmus in one of my eyes and less strong in the other… So the eye that technically sees better with no correction got rejected by my brain and I developed better acuity (with correction) in the other eye even though it s actually “the worse eye”. Now I m 33 and the rejected eye is getting better by excercise. They ll never be able to work together but I can switch between them now which is a great result to me 🙂
I have amblyopia. I wore an eye patch as a toddler. Twice as a child I had eye surgery to shorten eye muscles on the wandering eye then i had prisms on my glasses and some drawing exercises with something I think was called a Cerioscope. After that I used to be able to use them together if I concentrated very hard but things were blurry; that was how I could tell I was using them together. My mother resorted to a shaming tactic by telling me I looked ugly when she nI don’t use them together. I told her that she looked blurry. Now as middle aged adult the image in the mirror can no longer use her eyes together. I’m very self conscious of the wandering eye. As a result. I do not look people in the eyes and I’m offended by the term lazy eye. I’m not lazy this how God made me. There are many other people like me out there Thank you for your articles sincerely, Karen Friend
I have a bad astigmatism in both eyes, far worse in my left eye. My left eye also has a drift and often sees double. Now when both eyes are open I simply don’t see out of my left eye. If I close my right eye I can see out of my left eye but extreamly blurry and double even with strong corrective limbs. My eye doctor has basically said my left eye is functionally blind.
I have amblyopia and a divergent squint since I was a child. Whenever I take pictures of myself and I see my eye, or when I look at someone and they turn around because they think I’m looking at someone else, it breaks my heart. I feel like I can never look anyone in the eye or have a proper connection with people. It also really hurts to see lazy eyes being made fun of in media, and being associated with being stupid. I really hope there can be more awareness about the issue so that people can be more understanding.
I have untreated Strabismic amblyopia in my left eye and then later developed Myopia in my “good eye” I didn’t actually know I had a lazy eye until I was 17, and the only reason I found out was because I went to get my eyes tested because my “good eye” was developing the short sightedness. My eye turns in ever so slightly, more so when I try and focus on something so it was not super obvious. I was sent to the hospital for testing because they where worried it was something like a tumour! The vision in the amblyopic eye is very poor. I was so use to having a lazy eye I didn’t know any better so I didn’t know anything was wrong, that was my normal. Over time my myopia has gotten worse and is at a -3.25 but is currently stable at that, but I still can see so for that I’m thankful, I just have to be careful and protect my “good eye” from injury so no sports etc for me unfortunately. It just makes some things a lot harder like parking my car and other things that require your eyes to work together, like depth perception, night vision etc. I never knew how much having this condition actually effects so much of my life like ability to participate in sports, job perspectives etc
When I was 8, I told my parents that I can’t see clearly and they got me checked. The doctor confirmed that I was diagnosed with lazy eye. Now, I’m 21 and and still can feel my left eye moving by itself. When I ask my parents and friends “Did my left eye moves if I focusing at something?” they said “no, your eyes were just doing fine”. Well mine look normal but at some point I can feel my left eye started to blurry and moving in but not so obvious. But of course I feel uncomfortable. And now my eyeglass power is -5.75.
You didn’t talk at all about the possible solutions as an adult. Apparently the uc Irvine optomology department has possible fixes including playing on a article game that has red and blue color schemes. Unfortunately if you try to fix the lazy eye then it could backfire and you could become cross eyed forever. Also since you mentioned it is a neurological disorder then what are the long term side effects for people who have amblyopia? I always feel like a freak because I can’t see out of my right eye.
I kept telling my parents when I was a child that my other eye is just so blurry than my other but they won’t listen. Right now, at the age of 18, I always have headaches on that part of the head where my eye is (migraine I think, but it always start there), and I only just had glasses for it. I have 20/20 on my left eye, and a high one on the other.
Age 45 years, left eye -7. 5D, right eye -14D, nuclear cataract of grade 3 in right eye and of grade 2 in left eye. Cataract doctor informed that amblyopia in my right eye due to which very little improvement in right eye vision will be achieved even after cataract surgery on it? Upto 3 years back i was using equal power glasses on both eyes and no eye doctor told me that my right eye is amblyopic.
I have lazy eye in my left eye, it was only discovered in a pre-primary school eye exam that I could only see blurred/colored shapes with my left eye. Now the bad part is that they didn’t exactly explain to my parents what lazy eye is, so we only new that my left eye is very bad, and the right is also not very good. I needed glasses with +5 dioptries for my left, and +3 for my right eye. They both improved by bounds with a lot of eye excercises and patching my better eye to force the left to work harder. Fast forward to 25 year old me, deciding to try my luck with a laser eye correction surgery. The clinic is a very fancy well respected place. The process started with a very thorough examination, supposedly to access if I can safely take part in the surgery, and also to assess what could be the end result they can achieve. The doctor said that it’s possible to do the surgery on both my eyes, but she would only recommend it for the left one, which was on +3 dioptries at the moment (the right one was +1.5). I thought it trough, asked for the opinion of my loved ones, and finally decided to go through with the surgery for my left eye. They informed me that after the surgery my vision could be slightly blurry, but it would stabilize in at most 6 months. Everything was all well and happy, I put down my glasses as I didn’t really need them anymore, but as time went by, I noticed that I got headaches more and more fequently during work in the office. When it was time for the control examination 6 month after the surgery, I was, once more, using my glasses so that my head doesn’t hurt, and my left eye vision was almost as bad as before.
My sister age is 12 and she is having lazy eye . I recognized it past 1 yr but no one was able to recognize it so no one agreed with me and now it’s recognizabl by them . We went to doctor and he said to have surgery after 6months till then he recommended eye excercise and glasses . So is it necessary to have surgery for the treatment or instead of that anything else can be used for the permanent cure?
I am very farsighted and have been since a very young age. I’ve also been told I have cross eyes and lazy eye. I think my vision in each eye is independent from the other eye, meaning I see the right side with my right eye, then the left side with my left eye. My reasons for believing that are a few. There seems to be a ‘shift’ in my eyes when looking to the left then scanning to the right. Eye Doctors seemed to be facinated with perusal my eyes when they told me to focus on their finger while they moved it side to side (it sometimes seemed like they did it endlessly). When in a college biology lab everyone got an amoeba on their slide. The instructor would point out the amoeba to me & I could see, then I blinked and looked again in the same location and couldn’t see it. I had to ask the instructor at least a few times where it was. She seemed to find me bit annoying. Finally, when in my 20s (decades ago) I went to a new clinic/doctor for an eye exam. He was perplexed with my refractory testing and asked if I had my glasses with me (I was wearing contacts), so he waited for me to get them out of my car. He figured out my prescription from my glasses and then seemed to understand what was going on with my vision, but he never explained what the issue was. Also I could never ‘get it’ form pictures that had hidden forms within them. No matter how long I looked, I never saw the second image. I told someone that and watched her roll her eyes. Am I crazy?
I had cataract in my left eye in newbie itself so doctors removed cataract at the age of 1.5 years old and provided eye glass and patching cloth but it doesn’t work out and i having the squint eye problem, where my right eye is perfectly fine and left eye vision is like blurry and dim dark background and after years of going to the hospital doctors told me that i have lazy eye where the left eye nerve to the brain is not developed, On that I came home and really cried, doctors says to me to take care my right eye carefully. By the way I’m 19 years old . So plz anyone give me a solution to correct my lazy eye in left side of my eye. THANKS FOR READING ❤
Mine is refractive. It started from the age of 2, and it returned in my 20’s. Here’s my symptoms : I walk into furniture, doors and door frames, counter corners, any furniture, I fall down stairs that I’m not familiar with, I can’t find anything I’m looking for, I have to ask my husband and he will find what I was looking for, and every time, I did look where he found it, so, What my eyes see, doesn’t get processed by my brain. I had to quit driving because I wasn’t seeing road signs, or people.
I just got diagnosed lazy eye with my right eye today. When I was a kid, around 9 years old, my eyes were blurry. I thought it was normal and it would go back again. Teacher said on one of her lessons that it’s because I wash my face after I woke up in the morning. I didn’t tell this to my mom until I was 14. They didn’t believe me. First time going to ophthalmologist when I was 15 they just gave me glasses. Now, I am 18 years old and had proper diagnosis and it turns out to be lazy eye. I’m sad and scared that what if I get blind?
My left eye is completely blurry once I close my right eye. Letters big or small are not clear to read at all. Objects and people become blurry. Its not something that really effects my life. Obviously I and millions of others who have “Amblyopia” wish we had 20/20 vision but I’ve learn to live with it. I understand there are few treatments like an eyepatch to stimulate the weaker eye or even a surgical repair. I’ve done a eye exam/test and even the strongest eye prescription was no match for this eye lol but the Dr prescribed something and I’ll be getting glasses! I’ll update and let you guys know. 😀👍🏼
My right eye is affected by the disease. I am unable to see 100 % clear with it even with my glasses on. I felt like patches in the past didn’t work because somehow maybe on the patched side I have managed to keep my eye open so that I did not profit from the effect. Now, if I keep open just the right eye it is located in the center and looks normal. But it is so hard to keep it open for a long time, it would shiver (in my opinion) and I would get headaches caused by the concentration this takes. I also had surgery on my eye when I was about 6 years old. Not only was it an aesthetic issue (others mock you /give you nicknames), but it has been a medical problem for me all the time, as well. I had to absolve an extra test (about 100 €) to get my drivers license. Furthermore my eyes are sensitive to reflections/ lights in the evening. Especially when Ppl talk about their children/ babies and they are sometimes cross-eyed after birth (when they make fun of these looks) I often find it hard to be objective in my mind because it would hurt me somehow… I don’t know. About the condition.. I try to not think about it as if it were a punishment to me, it can be a great opportunity also to prove that you have to have self-esteem and to believe in yourself…I have learned that true friends or family, normal rationally thinking adults would not rate your outer appearance and this is more important in your life.
I was born with this Medical condition, and by the age of 19 years old I had eye surgery for my right (lazy) eye. I had an ARTISAN lens placed in my eye so I could see better with it (yes, I do see much better now). But thing is I still kind of have a right lazy eye. I stumbled upon this article looking for lazy eye exercises or ocular gymnastics for my lazy eye. Also, none of the Doctors I saw throughout my life ever told me this was a Neurological condition, they just told me to wear glasses to correct my vision and that’s it 😕
My right eye was my lazy eye. My parents figured it out because I used to walk into doorways as a toddler. Then, my mom said she had me follow her finger with my eyes and my right eye got “stuck” near my nose and stopped following her finger. When I was three, I started wearing glasses to fix it. I got out of them when I was about 10. Then, I went back in them at age 12 for nearsightedness. My mother’s father also had a lazy eye. And my only female cousin had a lazy eye too (and she’s a cousin on my mom’s side from one of my mom’s sisters). None of the boys had it (and they were all from sisters). I just went to the optometrist last month, and my left eye is the one I still favor. I had less trouble figuring out which lens was clearer with my left eye. It was easier to tell when things were sharper.
My life has been spoiled. . I feel that. . I wasn’t even aware. . Why i was not active. . Why my reactions was so slow. . My walking speaking, reading speed When i realised that. . Just few years back. .why i’m facing struggle. . I just broke. . Nothing cud help. My eyes tend to close. . They r lazy. . They just dont let me focus on laptop. . Screen. . I’m cluless what gonna happen wid my life.
I saw life from this eyes only. . Thats why it took my 21 years to find. . Why i’m like this. . Why i’m not efficient as others. . Now when i’m done with studies. . Entering into corp world. . I’m unsure. . How would i perform my job. . I’m totallu hopeless & lack of confidence. . What should i do to manage thks
I have a lazy eye (had?) and had the patch which I hated when I was in kindergarten. Years later in meps before i.joined the airforce i took the eyetest to see if i could become a pilot only to be told i had no depth perception. i couldn’t argue although i really wanted to because I had never had an issue with telling the depth between items (although those “magic eye” books never worked for me. And i was never very good at catching/throwing sports) It was years later driving down a straight rural road I tested a theory and drove with my right eye closed. That’s the first time I had EVER noticed the lack of depth perception. Even though i knew o wasn’t it felt and looked like I was driving in the middle of the road.
My daughter is 11. She was born with extreme bruising and her eyes were blood shot for over a month. She has a lazy eye, her right eye. She is ambidextrous and has problems with writing and fine motor skills. Her eye doctors are not concerned about her lazy eye. But the more I’m learning, the more I think we should be concerned. At one point they casually mentioned an eye patch, had no idea how to acquire one or instructions on exactly how to use it. Whay do you think?
i got a lazy eye due to having glaucoma in my left eye, i lost sight in that eye, not 100% but partially so its very very blurry. so im guessing as i dont see out of this eye i only use one eye that it will get lazy, its already lazy it always wonders to the left even im looking straight it really does knock your self confidence but ive learned in 15years of been diagnosed with glaucoma is to embrace it, its a part of me and i dont care what people say no one is perfect, but in gods eyes we are all equal 🙏
I actually have a lazy from BOTH eyes, or we can also call them my “wandering eyes” lol. Well anyways I remember getting bullied in both elementary school and middle school for it. I remember that I had no idea what they were talking about. Until one day I looked at myself in the mirror and realized what everyone was talking about. It hurt my self esteem so bad that once I reached HS I would always get side swept bangs to prevent others from seeing it. I didn’t want to go through that humiliation again so I hid my weaker eye. After grade school and got into a serious relationship I learned how to control my eyes. As long as I’m not tired I can control them, it’s when I’m exhausted, and as a new mom… I’m always exhausted now 🤣🤣 But I learned to accept it, it’s just who I am, my man loves everything about me and I actually poke fun at it now. I use to get drunk and when guys would hit on me I would show them my special eye talent to purposely freak them out lmao One question though? How does both eyes get lazy?? My right eye is worse but both eyes literally take turns wandering. I would really appreciate your response if you do, thank you ☺️💞
My left eye is a lazy eye, I’ve had it since I was a kid. I did get treatment for it, they made me wear those patches and my eyesight actually got up to 80% in my left eye, however once they deemed that it wasn’t necessary anymore I stopped wearing the patches and my eyesight dropped back down. Now I’m 23 and wishing to pursue a career in the armed forces however a lot of positions require you to have good eyesight, which I don’t. I wish I would’ve worn the patches more when I was a kid, I will often close off my good eye and try to use my lazy eye for a while in the hopes that it will get better, but it never does.
I had amblyopia as a kid but since i was homeschooled, my mom noticed I was attempting to read my words very close to my face. I had an examination at the age of 6 and by the time I was about 10 it was almost completely corrected. I still have poor eyesight since I have a pretty moderate astigmatism though.
I have this condition in my left eye. When I was about 3, I had surgery on this eye to make it straight. I have no memories of this surgery, only memories of wearing a patch on the opposite eye, my good eye. I hated that patch!!!! My surgery, the patch, and bifocal glasses straightened my left eye to match my right eye. My vision in my left eye is not blurry whatsoever, but if anything were to happen to my right eye, I would not be able to drive or do other activities. It’s really hard to explain. Around the age of 25, I began wearing glasses when things far off started becoming blurry. In my early 40’s, I started wearing transitional lenses where the top of the lenses corrects distance, the middle are for computer work, and the bottom of the lenses are for reading. I’m 53 now, and over the last few months, my left eye has begun turning outside, or away from my nose, once again. I’m also experiencing double vision that corrects quickly but happens often. I’m also noticing it’s harder to drive during the day, and I rarely drive at night unless absolutely necessary. I have been putting off an eye visit because I’m terrified of anything touching my eyes, like when the optometrist dilates my eyes and takes an instrument in real close, basically touching my eye, and shines a bright light to see the retina or blows a quick burst of air to check for glaucoma. I know I really need to go, though! On a side note, I married a man with the same condition, in the same left eye as me, except he was extremely farsighted to the point that he could almost see nothing close up without wearing glasses.
I was almost ambidextrous but my parents who deny that they did this, encouraged right-handedness and i’m angry about it I have diagnosed lazy eye, but it’s specifically that it doesn’t focus as fast as it should, so it immediately shuts when i walk outside and it’s bright out, so that i’m able to see and not be blinded I can also still read with my lazy eye if it’s only the lazy eye, but i also need my glasses on for that My vision in general isn’t the best anyways but it’s livable 😛 I also notice that my ear on my right side where I have lazy eye is better than the other ear to accommodate for the weakened environmental sense in that eye
I have lazy eye. Unfortunately I told my parents that I saw double when I was 10, cause when I was younger, I thought it was normal to see double. I tried doing the surgery, but the doctors cancelled it. So now I just live with it, but I don’t really like it when I see my school photos and one of my eyes are facing outward
My brother and I both have lazy eye and we both got glasses at the same time. It happened when my brother told my mom that one of his eyes couldn’t see so well. My mom was concerned and asked me about my eyes. I said, “I see just fine! But when I close this eye, things get blurry”. My brother was six and I was four when we got our glasses. Now I’m not sure if my brother’s vision was just a lot worse than mine or if it’s because I got glasses younger, but my vision is WAY better than his. When I was fourteen, my eye doctor said that I didn’t really need to wear glasses anymore because at this point my eyes weren’t going to get any better. I always HATED wearing glasses and I haven’t worn them since four years ago. I don’t struggle seeing anything and my vision isn’t a nuisance on a daily basis. My brother however, he still wears glasses and depends on them too. He can’t drive without them or read subtitles on a large screen with them off. Moral of the story, get your eyes checked. The earlier the better.
My left eye is a lazy eye since birth and unfortunately i do not know how to correct it. Many people i dont know whom i tried talking to, always look at their sides whenever i’m talking to them coz it appears that even though i am looking at them, what they see is my left lazy eye looking somewhere else..sad but it’s life 🙁
ive been having poor eye sight for the past 5-7 years but never really did anything to help it cause i hate wearing glasses. I made a pair of glasses about 4 years ago but sat on my glasses just after a month and never got a new pair up until yesterday. 4 years ago my left eye was at 50 and my right was about 200.. but a few days ago, I got myself a new QLED TV and when perusal it at home, I realised that my eyes cannot focus at how clear and sharp the image on the TV was. Thats when i went and got myself another pair of glasses. My updated “power” for my eye sight is 50(left) and about 350(right). At the store where i made my glasses, regardless of the lens used to test my eye, none really gave me perfect vision on the right side. Thats when the eye doc concluded that i have “lazy eye” on my right. He told me to spend 10 minutes a day covering my left eye thus forcing my brain to get used to focusing with my right eye however everytime i do this, just 2-3 minutes in, it seems like i am seeing what i can describe as “white noise” on both the left and right side of my eye. Any advice or explanation that can help me? is it something i should be worried about? Also, when putting on my new pair of glasses, it takes quite some time for my vision to focus and it kinda makes my eyes tired. Thanks in advanced Dr.Allen!
Left eye is amblyopic, and I’m also astigmatic and far-sighted. Had a brain tumor removed that was pressing on the top of the eye at 11 months, and all was well til I was about 7. Eye became substantially worse, and my opthalmologist had me doing all the tests and patches and a weird lens on my glasses, all to no avail. Specialist was flown in to do corrective surgery, and my eye straightened up without the surgery! LOL But of course, it didn’t last, but wasn’t as bad as it was in the past. Now, I’ve had a clot blow behind the upper right of the left eye, and am virtually unable to control it, leading to nausea, inability to drive, etc. Since I’m over 50, is corrective surgery even an option?
I was born cross-eyed, and my brain ignores my right eye. The muscles in my eyes fight each other, so they’re constantly having a tug of war. The further to the left I turn my eyes, my left eye jerks, and everything jumps back and forth. I tend to turn my head to the left and keep my eye to the right, close to my nose in order to keep my view as still as possible. There’s not much jerk if I look straight ahead, but there’s enough movement to mess with my vision. I see floaters all of the time, and it depends on the light on how much they stick out. I don’t like to drive, and I drive as little as possible.
I have Amblyopia in my right eye, but no sign of strabismus. When refracted, I always tell the ophthalmologist that I can see the letters on the wall perfectly clearly, but cannot tell him what they are. If L, I, T, J are next to other letters, they disappear. O, Q, and C all look the came. My amblyopia is kind of like looking into a cracked mirror. One side of the crack is bright with clear letters, and the other side of the crack is shaded and the letters are less clear. My brain is not registering completely what that eye is seeing.
Ive had surgery to try & fix it that didn’t work & ive been wearing glasses since i was around 7. For me its the right eye that does it more but I can “switch” like I can focus that eye & the left will lose it & fall to the side. It’s honestly kind of fun to show people how I can basically send my eye to the side & bring it back.
My right eye would turn out and it wasn’t a huge concern at first because we managed to keep it under control with glasses for awhile but then my vision started leveling out and it started wandering off again. It got to a point where I had to stop reading after 15-20 minutes because I would get double vision and I could no longer actually read it without getting a headache. In middle school I had muscle reattachment surgery on both eyes and my eye no longer wanders off when I wear my glasses and only does a tiny amount with them off. But I always wear my glasses because my vision is that bad so it doesn’t bother me.
I have lazy eye and it really did make me really insecure, but until I was in 3rd grade, my teacher only noticed it (the first time I can recall that someone pointed it out) and when I told my friends, they couldn’t even notice at all. it really messed my confidence and social skills in primary school and I only made 2 new friends every year and only hanging out with old ones but when I stopped caring about it my confidence grew and everything went better but its kinda hard for me to watch movies in the cinema cause my eyes can’t really focus but life is good. 😀
my right eye has amblyopia and its so severe I can see diffrent colors with diffrent eyes, when I look with both eyes I see rather “normal” hell you could even say I have better vision than most people, but I think having amblyopia helped me to see in pitch black darkness where there is no light source to exhaust my eye. I learned about this when I first used a gun with scope, looking down the scope with right eye caused pain, inflamation and discomfort because it was in broad day light, tried looking down the scope at night time and it was rather easier to see, you could even say it grants me night vision.
I have Amblyopia. The problem for me was never wearing glasses when I was younger. I didn’t get corrective lenses until I was in the 3rd grade. Since I got bullied a lot, I didn’t want to wear the glasses to make that problem worse. My parents never made me wear them. I didn’t start wearing glasses until I was 26 or so. I can see out of that eye, but with difficulty. When I look into the world, my brain takes visual information from my left (dominant) eye, leaving me almost no vision from my right side, unless I close my left (dominant) eye. The total brightness of light dims a bit if I only take information from my right eye as well.
I didn’t know I had bad eyesight until I was in first grade. Have amblyopia- If I cover the good (left) eye, I can see things, but miss details, even with corrective lenses. My better (left) eye is quite near-sighted as well, but works well with corrective lenses, right eye doesn’t do well even at a lesser distance. The right eye doesn’t focus well on its own, and letters need to be close by to discern what they are. Peripheral vision seems okay though.
Left eye: clear, superb, does the job. Right eye: blurry AF. My parents knew about this when I was a child and they were given the plan to use the eye patch, but they couldn’t get their act together and didn’t end up doing it. If I look through my right eye only, everything is blurry at any distance, and after about 30 seconds I start to feel nauseated like I’m on a boat. I am a right-handed batter and I was AWFUL at batting in softball. I figured out it was due to my lazy right eye taking a vacation on the side of my body away from the pitcher. In most instances I have good enough depth perception, but to hit that ball I had to basically turn my head to the point of looking straight at the pitcher squarely, which makes for terrible ergonomics and a silly looking softball player at home plate. Probably should’ve worked on my bunting. At 32 I have a drive to figure out how to improve the vision in my right eye, and I ended up at this article. All I know from my optometrist is that if I need a CDL license I need glasses, otherwise I can manage well enough with the left eye doing the work. However, I still would like to improve this eye, if I can.
Struggled on and off with this for years. Didnt start therapy until late in life, my mom listened to bad medical advice as a child. Im now 31, issues have come back. I see double about 90% of the time. Anything more than 6ft from my face is doubled. Its terrible, wouldnt wish this on my enemies even. And on top of seeing like this all the time, I have to worry about my appearance. I cant look people in the eye because of my eye turn. Makes dating or trying to be taken seriously nearly impossible. Sometimes I just want to poke the dang thing out. At least I wouldnt see double anymore 🙁
I was born with perfectly straight eyes and at around 2yo my parents noticed my left eye turned completely inward. I had surgery and saw really good results I’m guessing since my eyes are pretty straight. I never noticed anything or really understood my eyes were different even with kids on school always asking me if I was looking at them (I thought they were just messing with me idk I was a kid). I remember waking up one morning and looking in the mirror and I noticed my left eye turning slightly inward. I freaked out and went to the eye doctor and they acted like it was no big deal. Since then I’ve never been able to shake this anxiety I have about it. I just learned not long ago about exercises that can correct it for the most part. I am working on that now and hopefully I’ll see some good results.
Diagnosed with Refractive (Hyperope w/ 1.50D aniso)/Strabismic amblyopia OD at 4 . Never needed surgery, but after years of patching and vision correction was able to get to a BCVA of 20/40 OD. Still have about 10 Diopters of ET but it’s hardly noticeable. Stereo is non-existent but do have some amount of fusion. Id like to think I’m an expert at monocular cues at this point, just glad I never wanted to pursue a career as a pilot lol. Ended up having PRK 6 years ago OU and still a bit hyperopic. Definitely owe a lot of thanks to my OD for all she was able to do for me. As far as my everyday life, only notice minor diplopia when tired, otherwise no impediment on daily activities.
I have lazy eyes and I had surgery at 3 years old. It was corrected really well and definitely was not bad anymore. However, over the years, it has gotten worse for me. It’s very strange to explain sometimes, even to an optometrist. My right eye is dominant and my left is weak. Without glasses, my right eye’s vision is still very clear and my left is blurry. When i switch over to the left eye, the vision for that eye clears up but it’s not as clear as the right. I can see with both eyes at once but I cannot concentrate with activities like reading with the co-ordination of both eyes at once. I find that distance exercises near/far are very difficult for me and my eyes sort of battle dominion over the point of focus. The surgery I got when I was very young definitely helped me alot as I wasn’t bullied or treated wrongly for having lazy eyes as a child or even as an adult. There were some instances when someone would question whether I was focusing on them or not. This happened once in a Taekwondo class where an instructor snapped at me and was like “hey! where are you looking!” when she saw my lazy eye (which was acting up a lot more than usual) thought I was staring out the window, to which I replied a confused “at you”. She instantly regretted what she had said and apologised. This one is a more broad issue but my math teacher in high school looked down on students for having vision issues. He associated “perfect vision” with “youth” and once said things like “you students are so young and healthy, why do you have glasses, you shouldn’t need them”.
my left eye is somewhat lazy. not super obvious unless you look at it. i was supposed to get glasses as a kid to correct it but my parents were against it thinking my eye grade will worsen. lol. i have astigmatism now and nearsightedness. and well, my eye is still the same. also… new subber and loving this website!
Have lazy eye. Whats interesting is that I suffer migraines and they are always in the temple above my lazy eye. Unless I consume some caffiene or take excedrin it doesnt go away. Always wondered why this connection since doctors told me it wasnt connected. Tried the eye patch method as a kid but like a lot of the comments here I stopped because of bullying by other kids.
I always have a fear that one of my eyes will become lazy and move inward. It seems that naturally my eyes tend to cross when I’m focusing hard on my work and when I’m even slightly tired. I’m very sorry to the people who deal with this in a much more serious condition. When I’m talking to people with a lazy eye I always feel bad for them and try to only look at their good eye. Idk why but it gives me this feeling like damn this could’ve or soon could be me. Sorry guys try ur best to not worry about the bullying and anxiety of eye contact. It’s something you cannot help and if others can’t see that then they clearly have worse problems than you.
At age of 2-3 I fell down from a window on 4th floor. Had my bottom half completely covered in plaster for months cause of broken legs. Looking at the old photos my eyes were straight during my time of bed rest. But then my right eye started shifting outwards around the same time (don’t know if I had vision in that eye or not). I was then taken to almost all of the eye clinics, hospitals in my city when I was a kid. I also had to put eye patch on my left eye (don’t know for how long in a day and for how long in total I did that) Then after all that was in vain, I was told that I have problem with my nerves and it can never be treated. After 16 years, at the age of 19/20, I went through a cosmetic eye surgery. The doctor had already told me that as I didn’t have proper vision (less than 1% i guess), my eyes could shift back to the same position. And she was right. Now it’s the same as if I never went though the surgery. Is there still hope for me??
I have a lazy eye. My right eye looks upwards when relaxed. I can do this at will but over my lifetime, I’ve trained my eyes to seem normal. I am left handed and I think it is because when I was little, I would look out of my left eye primarily, so using my right hand to write could seem to be out of field of view compared to my left hand. I had surgery very early on instead of the other option of wearing an eye patch to strengthen the eye muscles. I’m really intrigued by this as I’ve never looked into it before or really questioned it until now. My eye was an issue moreso as a child and I guess I have trained both my eyes to move together 🙃
Hi there I had lazy guy since I was a baby, my parents told me they asked the doctors if they can perform strabismus surgery on wine when I was little; they said it’ll go away as I grow older. Turns out it made it worse….one of my eyes is really going in while my other eye looks forward !! The GP referred me to a eye specialist at the hospital….they did Botox injection to see if I’ll get double vision if the surgery was to be performed & I didn’t get any double vision!! So they said I’ll be fit for the surgery but if the first try of surgery was to go wrong, they will have to repeat it & that will be risky said the doctor and my parents, so we left it I feel so in-secured about myself, I can’t even look at people cause I’m scared if they’ll ask “what’s wrong with your eyes” If there’s anything I can do without surgery, please let me know!!! I really want to fix this strabismus Btw I’m 22 years old
I have refractive amblyopia when I was 12 or 13, my left eye is fine but my right not as good. My eye doctor gave me a treatment in the form of glasses, and that’s it. I wouldn’t try to do patching the left eye because that would not be part of the given treatment and also I won’t know how long to do it everyday. However, if you don’t get any abnormal eye conditions, make sure you treat them well and try to avoid looking at your screen or something at a close distance. It’s really annoying to have amblyopia as my right eye feels kind of weird.
so.. maybe this is totally normal for everyone and we just dont talk about how exactly vision should work, so let me know if its nothing wrong when i completely relax my eyes, i see double and my vision is blurry in both eyes. when i focus my eyes just a little bit, i can still see double, but my vision is clear in both eyes. when i focus more strongly, my vison is singular, and clear. i remember countless nights as a child not being able to fall asleep because my eyes were hurting – because i kept the muscles tense (focused vision) while my lids were closed, until at some point my body was too tired and forced itself to relax, making the pain behind my eyes go away. i remember one time being lucid enough still to notice that, and spent time after that exercising Relaxing the muscles. nowadays, i wake up with double vision always, and in the same way that some people arent strong enough to make a fist first thing in the morning, it takes me a while to focus my eyes tensely enough to have singular, clear vision. i often focus them only a little if at all so that i can see what im doing until im awake enough, and strong enough, to focus all the way. does anyone else experience this? what would this be called or categorised as? is it completely normal but nobody has ever spoken about it?
I have it and now I’m 30 years old.. I never speak to my family about it I never know I had it until I was 18 years old .. It was to late to do anything about it .. and now I can’t enjoy 3D movies ☹️ and I relays in time my lazy eye getting more lazy it’s look different then the good eye .. I will never let that happen to my kids