Lazy eye

WorkingLunch

Hi, I have had a slight lazy eye since I was a child, is there anything that can be done to fix it either by surgery or self.

I have a lazy eye too - the only time it was addressed was when I was 14 and my optician wanted me to wear an eyepatch. Not a chance, not at that age. It's still my lazy eye and has a slight blind spot in it that's only improved if I cover my good eye for any length. Obviously you'd have to talk to a speciliast about it - though living with my lazy eye hasn't caused me any issue personally.

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Usually after the age of 7 your eyes are set for life. If you experience a lazy eye the time to deal with it is before the age of 7. The patches work by covering the good eye. This forces the lazy eye to be stimulated by light and kick start it back into life.

lpool2k05

I also have a lazy eye and wear glasses with a prism in them!!Anybody know of surgery done in ireland to correct the allignment of my eyes or even contact lenses with prism??

Any help much appreciated!!

Diabhal Beag

lpool2k05 wrote: »

I also have a lazy eye and wear glasses with a prism in them!!Anybody know of surgery done in ireland to correct the allignment of my eyes or even contact lenses with prism??

Any help much appreciated!!

Hi. My brother had this problem. He went to a specialist (often you will have to go to a private hospital for the best advice) and he recommend squint surgery. It worked very well but there is always a risk and the younger the age the better. Not giving medical advice but just saying there are specialists in the field that can offer help.

Contact eye specialists.

lpool2k05

Thanks for the info!!Any chance you could find out the costs of such a surgery or where he got it done??Google aint that great for looking up the Irish health service

PM me with any details

Thanks a million

-Al-

I'm going to be trying a treatment called RevitalVision. Its supposed to improve amblyopic vision in adults or people over age 9. I need to see an eye specialist first (hopefully this week) before I can start but I'll keep you informed of how it goes if I do. I only need to improve 1 line in my lazy which apparently they will refund if you achieve less than this.

I had surgery twice to correct a lazy eye, around the ages of 6 and 7. It mostly worked but my left eye still tends to drift sightly when I'm tired. I've lost my binocular vision ability due to it, that is, I'm unable to focus using both eyes at the same time so I can't see stereogram "magic eye" images or 3D movies and my depth perception has been somewhat affected too.

lpool2k05

Anybody know if contact lenses can help make eyes look straight and alligned??Surely if glasses can do it contacts can as well in this day and age?

danjo-xx

Only started wearing glasses at 18 but in my 20's I remember an opthalmic surgeon telling me I had lazy eye muscle(s).

The treatment was to exercise the muscle by holding a finger out in front of my face and looking at the tip of it and then looking way off to a point in the distance like a chimney pot or aerial etc. and to repeat this in repaid succession looking back and forth at the same spot for about 20 times in a session and on a daily basis more or less after that.

Have to say over time I found it did help and don't need to exercise as often now.....I've just got lazy again

knuth

-Al- wrote: »

I'm going to be trying a treatment called RevitalVision. Its supposed to improve amblyopic vision in adults or people over age 9. I need to see an eye specialist first (hopefully this week) before I can start but I'll keep you informed of how it goes if I do. I only need to improve 1 line in my lazy which apparently they will refund if you achieve less than this.

Any luck with it?