Can i have lasik or contact lenses for my lazy eye?Cherry
Okay, so when I was 6, I told my mother I didn't see very well. We discovered that my left eye's vision wasn't clear (near or far - it's blurry). My right eye is perfect though. I used the eye patch for some time and it did help. But now I'm 17 and haven't used a patch in the last 6 or 7 years. I've worn glasses during all that time. Now I'm just sick of wearing them.Can I get surgery or wear contact lenses? (I don't suffer from strabismus)
Elsie
While I am by far not an expert in this field... to the best of my knowledge no your cannot correct this with surgery or contact lenses.This is a neurologically active process. What the heck does that mean? Well, .. basically as a result of your eye not moving in sequence with the other properly it doesn't see as well. Your good eye is always going to be your dominant eye. Anyhow, as this eye doesn't develop and see AS well as the other eye the brain recognizes this. It then will actively suppress information from the lazy eye. This will further inhibit the vision in that eye and sometimes make lazy eye worse, but at minimum keep it constant. Some extreme lazy eye's become completely blind, because the brain has suppressed the information from the 'bad eye' completely.At your age, I would try patch therapy again. Though it isn't very flattering. -- Though if your lazy eye has 'good enough' vision to move about and so forth you could use drop therapy. Where you simply put in atropine eye drops in your GOOD eye, so the brain suppresses its information and your lazy eye is doing all the work. Over time this is in attempt to retrain the neurological connection, and the muscles that control the eye accommodation and movement.This is a debatable treatment, some say sure it might help, some say don't bother. I personally think it would be worth a shot for a minor lazy eye... that still has some reasonable vision left in it. Obviously the worse off you are to start, the less likely the treatment will be effective.Just trying to give you a little more hope for things, because as far as I know there is no surgery, glasses, or contacts to cause eye teaming to work as it should. *Technically there is a surgery for a strabismus, but it is mainly for cosmetics.
Everette
yeah you can get contact lenses, there wouldn't be any problems with you doing so. i know that, being long sighted myself, that you need a very low prescription to have lasik surgery otherwise it's difficult for them. you'd need to ask a professional about it
Gisele
you can.
Elidia
I have a lazy eye, and I have contacts, and it straightens itself out.While I can't say I am an expert, because this would probably vary case to case, I can say that it has worked for me. I would make an appointment with your eye doctor and discuss the option of contacts with him. If you do decide that contacts are the way to go, you need to let the contact be in your eye for a few minutes before it corrects itself. When I put mine in for the first time, and saw that my eye still crossed in, I started crying (I was 14) because I thought they were not going to work out for me. But after some time of having them in, say, maybe 10 minutes or so, your eye will be straightened out. Even now, 7 years after I got contacts, it still takes a few minutes to get my eye straightened out, but the contacts work out well for me. As for lasik, I am not sure, but I would like to get it someday, so I hope so!But for now (being 17 and lasik being so expensive) I would try contacts. Good Luck! I hope they work out for you like they did for me, I know how much glasses suck :(
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