People with "a turn" in their eye...

flanum

Apologies to anybody with the afforementiond affliction.. but..

Whats the story with it? (lazy eye?)? .. i ended up being stuck chattin to a very drunk lad at the bar this evenin who happened to have a turn in his eye..

is there a name for this affliction?
Anyway, no matter how hard i tried i couldnt figure out which eye was the good one, i didnt know which one to be looking at so i spent most of the ime concentrating on his chin..

is there not a simple medical procedure to correct this? this lad was in his forties... if it was me i would have been gettin that thing sorted or my family would have been getting it fixed for me when i was a kid...

so any boardsies with a lazy eye?? is it sore all the time? do ye get headaches? which eye is the good one...

no offence meant but im strangely intrigued by it..

(edit to add.. i just remembered some line in "philadephia here i come" where they were referencing this affliction)!
(edit it was ned talking abount annie mcfadden having a squint in her eye i think)!

FunkZ

TIIIMMMMMAAAYYY!!!

Hahahahahaha =]

mink_man

blahblahblah

pikachucheeks

flanum wrote: »

so any boardsies with a lazy eye??!

Pics or GTFO!

:pac:

genericguy

you mean like fas girl or the presenter of dragon's den? i hear that when they cry, the tears roll down their back.

FunkZ

Ohhh I have a lazy eye

flanum

pikachucheeks wrote: »

Pics or GTFO!

:pac:

http://www.irishhealth.com/content/image/251/Image1.gif

Wurly

My left eye was awful lazy when I were a kid.

I wore glasses for 8 years and wore a manky brown patch like a yellow pack pirate.

No problems now.:)

pikachucheeks

Boss eyed!

[Couldn't get the youtube embedding thingie to work!]

Mimikyu

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Latchy

I think Peter Falks (Columbo) lazy eye is so cool

brummytom

It's called amblyopia.


Don't have it, but I've got terrible eyesight.. never wear my glasses out though

bigeasyeah

potatoes

Wurly

Mashed carrot and parsnip

Fajitas!

I just want to know which way they actually are looking. Freaks me out.

Do they have a blind spot in the middle?

brummytom

Lemon jelly

Captain Darling

Trí wrote: »

Mashed carrot and parsnip

Two veg and no meat?

Very unlike you...

Wurly

Captain Darling wrote: »

Two veg and no meat?

Very unlike you...

I ate the meat!

Captain Darling

Trí wrote: »

I ate the meat!

Its very important that you have enough protein in your diet.;):eek:

itsallaboutheL

Fajitas! wrote: »

Do they have a blind spot in the middle?

I think you'll find thats called a nose..

civildefence

Latchy wrote: »

I think Peter Falks (Columbo) lazy eye is so cool

I believe that particular eye was more "glass" than "lazy"

brummytom

civildefence wrote: »

I believe that particular eye was more "glass" than "lazy"

Well I doubt it did much excercise either

jumpguy

This happened to me in McDonald's a few years ago. I was ordering food and this female behind the counter had the affliction. I didn't quite catch on that she had it. So when she asked me for my food it looked like she wasn't looking at me. I got confused and...looked behind to make sure she was talking to me and there was nobody else around. Worst of all, I pointed at myself and asked "me?". Then it just snapped in my mind and I swear I went as red as strawberry. She gave me food and asked for the money, and seriously I thought she was talking to someone else! So I looked behind me again, realised, handed over the money without saying anything and walked off. Shameful, and a lesson what not to do to anyone when you run into someone like this (unless you have the intention of being an asshole).

Wurly

Captain Darling wrote: »

Its very important that you have enough protein in your diet.;):eek:

I'm taking a liquid protein tonic. It seems to be doing the trick.:)

Captain Darling

Trí wrote: »

I'm taking a liquid protein tonic. It seems to be doing the trick.:)

TAXI!

Abi

flanum wrote: »

Apologies to anybody with the afforementiond affliction.. but..

Whats the story with it? (lazy eye?)? .. i ended up being stuck chattin to a very drunk lad at the bar this evenin who happened to have a turn in his eye..

is there a name for this affliction?
Anyway, no matter how hard i tried i couldnt figure out which eye was the good one, i didnt know which one to be looking at so i spent most of the ime concentrating on his chin..

is there not a simple medical procedure to correct this? this lad was in his forties... if it was me i would have been gettin that thing sorted or my family would have been getting it fixed for me when i was a kid...

so any boardsies with a lazy eye?? is it sore all the time? do ye get headaches? which eye is the good one...

no offence meant but im strangely intrigued by it..

(edit to add.. i just remembered some line in "philadephia here i come" where they were referencing this affliction)!
(edit it was ned talking abount annie mcfadden having a squint in her eye i think)!

While the question is genuine, and I have no answer to your connundrum.. how you put things cracks me the fcuk up. I'd kill for a pint or 10 with you :pac:





Oh and Trí - if you don't sort that lad out quick smart I cannot be held responsible for my actions young lady! :pac:

Wurly

Abigayle wrote: »

Oh and Trí - if you don't sort that lad out quick smart I cannot be held responsible for my actions young lady! :pac:

Are you going to do dirty things to him???:pac:

/makes fresh batch of popcorn

And just to clarify.... When you say 'lad' - are you referring to the person or the instrument?? ha ha

Latchy

civildefence wrote: »

I believe that particular eye was more "glass" than "lazy"

Yeah but before he got the ''glass'' one it was '' lazy ''

civildefence

Latchy wrote: »

Yeah but before he got the ''glass'' one it was '' lazy ''

He sacked his real eye

Latchy

civildefence wrote: »

He sacked his real eye

A dead eye is as usful as a sacked one (not very)


Read PF 's authobiography a while back to

TPD

flanum wrote: »

http://www.irishhealth.com/content/image/251/Image1.gif

I can do that with my eyes. Hadn't done it in years, just did it now, very painful.

Jesus Wept

flanum wrote: »

is there a name for this affliction?

There are varying names I suppose.
In theory, I don't know as much about it as perhaps I ought to.

flanum wrote: »

Anyway, no matter how hard i tried i couldnt figure out which eye was the good one, i didnt know which one to be looking at so i spent most of the ime concentrating on his chin..

Perhaps try concentrating on what he is saying next time.

flanum wrote: »

is there not a simple medical procedure to correct this? this lad was in his forties... if it was me i would have been gettin that thing sorted or my family would have been getting it fixed for me when i was a kid...

I had two operations to correct it when I was a baby, the thing is though - because your face changes with age, especially until you reach adulthood, it deteriorates again (aesthetically it deteriorates anyway, not the eye itself, it's classified as a cosmetic surgery, my vision was never altered by any operation).

I had another operation when I was 18 and I should probably be considering having a check up but I'm dreading it as it's as it's incredibly uncomfortable after the operation.

The operation itself is fine, they knocked me out. :pac:
Afterwards is awful. I had stitches in my eye for a couple of weeks, incredibly horrible, it's like having 10 pieces of grit in your eyes for 2 weeks, around the clock, you can feel it when your eye is open, everytime you move your eye, when it's closed, every blink, you can't escape it.

On having it?
I don't give it a great deal of thought nowadays.
I'm sure some people notice and many people just don't.
As a kid it was a lot more difficult because it was significantly more prominent and because kids aren't the most tactful of creatures, as a result it has probably affected me socially to a fair degree.
From force of habit, I tend to not make a lot of eye contact and I am overly self aware in social situations. There is a degree of over compensation, it's affected me more than it ought to have.

On a more positive note, all my other senses are heightened, I can smell fear and can usually tell when it's about to rain.

flanum wrote: »

do ye get headaches?

I don't.

flanum wrote: »

Which eye is the good one...

They're both lovely.

Fajitas! wrote: »

I just want to know which way they actually are looking. Freaks me out.

Into your soul.

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Sherry trifle

tech77

Strabismus.

DanGerMus

they call it squint to. I have one. Ruins my confidence with women much more so in crowded situations cos people literally can't tell i'm talking to them. Funny enough i only got a number for a surgeon last week. Still haven't called but i want to get it sorted.

Amalgam

Ben Turpin made a career out of his 'special eyes'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Turpin

You've probably seen his picture without realising who he was..

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/7084/benturpinmar20.jpg

Put his name into YouTube, he really cashed in on his looks..

spoofilyj

Latchy wrote: »

I think Peter Falks (Columbo) lazy eye is so cool

Columbo had a glass eye actually, its not lazy its just glass a replacement for the eye lost in an accident...

James T Kirk

The poster boy?

fintonie

I went out with a one with this problem, she always had one eye lookin at me and the other one lookin for me.

tarbuck

I have this. It's actually a neurological condition whereby the brain cannot deal with the 2x signals of the individual eyes and so purposely turns one of the eyes away from centre in order to defeat the overlapping signals.

Today my left eye has pretty much shut down due to lack of use and because the brain rejects anything they eys sends to it. I can't enjoy 3d movies and my vision is so weak on the left that I'm actually afraid to take up driving in case I hit someone on my blindside. Of course from the costmetic pov it also turns outward slightly but I could probably live with in exchange for use of the bloody thing.

Had a (purely cosmetic) operation when I was four which didn't work and again at 20 which was ok for a while but the eye started turning back again so several years later I still have the problem.

Apparently the condition can be fixed if caught as an infant but my parent's didn't do a thing about it until I was around 3-4 it made no difference. Pair of stupid idiots tbh and I still hold it against them to this day. I wouldn't mind but I look at other distant relatives in my family on my maternal side (cousins , grandparents etc) and it's clear that they have/had the condition so if they'd been half-awake they could have spotted the potential problem done something.

I'd suggest that any parents of newborns here get this checked immediately as it is something that can be fixed if caught early enough. No point doing something about it after you notice it in your child as it'll already be too late then.

Long Onion

It can also arise in cases where the mother has had a brief but terrifically exciting fling with a chameleon whilst on a 30-somethings holiday. It is rumored that if sufferers try to turn around too quickly they can actually see their own brain (this latter phenomenon can also be experienced by anyone who inserts a contact lens the wrong way around).

zero19

I got a pain in my eyes reading this thread...Ugh not cool

gaeilgegrinds

I had one as a kid, only when I was tired. Wore glasses and it corrected itself. Operations can fix it too!

Agent Smith

pikachucheeks wrote: »

Boss eyed!

[Couldn't get the youtube embedding thingie to work!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZwZeQQc9Ec

almostnever

The-Rigger wrote: »

I had another operation when I was 18 and I should probably be considering having a check up but I'm dreading it as it's as it's incredibly uncomfortable after the operation.

The operation itself is fine, they knocked me out. :pac:
Afterwards is awful. I had stitches in my eye for a couple of weeks, incredibly horrible, it's like having 10 pieces of grit in your eyes for 2 weeks, around the clock, you can feel it when your eye is open, everytime you move your eye, when it's closed, every blink, you can't escape it.

THANK YOU! My plank of a surgeon told everyone I was over reacting when I felt so awful. My eyelashes felt glued together literally for weeks,when I woke up after sleeping I couldn't open my eyes for ages,I was aware of those damn stitches for ages and I swear it was just so horribly uncomfortable. But nobody believed me I'm 17 and my damn mother keeps nagging me to get it done again-no ****ing way! She thinks I made up all the discomfort and pain from the last time because that surgeon (who lied to me on certain occasions,and when I told my mam she brushed it off) told her I felt perfectly fine and I could go to school the next day. Never again. Oh,and it didn't even ****ing work. Ugh even thinking of this is making me so mad! I hated that absolute wa**er of a doctor/surgeon. I'm aware I've said that 100 times in this post,but I would actually love to sue. I was basically tricked into having that operation,or guilted,rather. I screamed the place down and my mam got really mad,apparently they couldn't do it without me agreeing to it (or maybe it had more to do with the fact that restraining me with an anesthetic wasn't the best course of action) and she told me if I didn't get it,she'd never talk to me again. And so,I got it. She fecking denies all of this now,which makes me so angry. The whole damn thing makes me so mad. I'm going to shut up now :pac:

FOGOFUNK

I had this operation done last year aswell!!! ****in horrible!!!

My eye was blood shot for months and hurt like **** for weeks! and it only stayed straight for about 3 days!!!


Useless!!

It doesnt bother me too much anymore but its gas when your talking to someone in a bar/nightclub and you can pinpoint the instant they realise you have a dodgey eye!!!

January

I also have a squint in my eye and despite getting it fixed it has come back again and again. The picture attached is when it was it's worst at two years old.

Don't know if I should get the surgery again as there is a chance it will come back. You can't see it unless I have my glasses off though and I'm really tired. I don't even know I'm doing it. No headaches either.

FOGOFUNK

****in loads of us on here. Lets start a mutiny*.







*Im not sure what or who we should mutinise against

BlueSpiral

I used to have a squint in both eyes when I was very small, then had an operation to relax them a bit and haven't had a squint since. Recently my sister did mention that she thought she saw my pupil dart to the corner of my eye, but I doubt it was something to be worried about. I didn't know squints they could come back.

My specialist used to give out heaps to me for looking out the corner of my eyes instead of turning my head. Believe that led to a lazy eye when I was around 5, along with a pretty heavy pair of glasses. Got the eye patch and all, and was able to transfer stickers to them. I have pretty fond memories of having that patch. I loved going to the eye doctor, was always really pleasant.:)


Is it true you can't have laser eye surgery after having that squint operation?

Ridley

flanum wrote: »

Anyway, no matter how hard i tried i couldnt figure out which eye was the good one, i didnt know which one to be looking at so i spent most of the ime concentrating on his chin..

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2041/2216815931_de974cdf2d_o.jpg

rainbowdrop

My Grandmother always used say about a neighbour, who would often call to her for a cup of tea "she'd have one eye on the table, and the other one up the chimney":pac:

Jesus Wept

almostnever wrote: »

THANK YOU! My plank of a surgeon told everyone I was over reacting when I felt so awful. My eyelashes felt glued together literally for weeks,when I woke up after sleeping I couldn't open my eyes for ages,I was aware of those damn stitches for ages and I swear it was just so horribly uncomfortable. But nobody believed me I'm 17 and my damn mother keeps nagging me to get it done again-no ****ing way! She thinks I made up all the discomfort and pain from the last time because that surgeon (who lied to me on certain occasions,and when I told my mam she brushed it off) told her I felt perfectly fine and I could go to school the next day. Never again. Oh,and it didn't even ****ing work. Ugh even thinking of this is making me so mad! I hated that absolute wa**er of a doctor/surgeon. I'm aware I've said that 100 times in this post,but I would actually love to sue. I was basically tricked into having that operation,or guilted,rather. I screamed the place down and my mam got really mad,apparently they couldn't do it without me agreeing to it (or maybe it had more to do with the fact that restraining me with an anesthetic wasn't the best course of action) and she told me if I didn't get it,she'd never talk to me again. And so,I got it. She fecking denies all of this now,which makes me so angry. The whole damn thing makes me so mad. I'm going to shut up now :pac:

Jebus, that's awful.
They really played down any talk of discomfort to me also, turds.
School the next day my arse.
Your mother needs a clip around the ear.