One month ago, I had the strabismus eye surgery to cosmetically correct my eye-ball position.?
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How old are you? Do you have good vision in the lazy eye when you wear your glasses? Did you have treatment for lazy eye as a child (wearing glasses and patching the good eye)?
If you are over age 20, did not have treatment as a child and do not have good vision in the lazy eye with glasses then LASIK will not help. LASIK replaces glasses, if glasses don't correct your vision, LASIK won't either.
If you do have good vision with glasses, you will need to personally see a LASIK centre for assessment. It is more difficult to treat far sightedness than near sightedness and whether or not it will work for you depends on your individual factors.
LASIK can only correct your vision to the best correction you can achieve with glasses or contacts. My hubby has amblyopia in one eye...he did have LASIK and he was corrected to 20/30 in his weak eye...the best possible correction because of his lazy eye. (he also had moderate astigmatism and was farsighted). If your weak eye is only correctable to 20/100 or 20/80 (just pullin that outta the air for demonstration), then LASIK may not be of benefit to you.
You would need a LASIK consult also to make sure you are a candidate...and also to find out how long you should wait for your strabismus recovery.
If it is a true lazy eye, or amblyopic, which is an eye that does'nt have "normal" or perfect sight, then the vision has to be corrected by the age of 9, and preferrably by 6 yrs. of age with corrected vision in contacts or specs, and by patching the good eye, to stimulate the nerve of the bad eye to fully develop good vision. However, if you have some sight in this eye, and it is correctable with glasses or contacts, then it is possible you may be a lasik candidate, provided there are no other problems with your cornea and you have enough tissue to do the procedure. Get a consult, they are typically free...Keep in mind that lasik can only correct the vision to whatever the eye is "capable" of seeing in specs or contacts...
The lasik procedure can be performed on this eye to correct the focus. It'll possibly become perfectly focused which is miraculous.
However, the amblyopic eye doesn't have anatomy as its problem. It's physiology is off. The brain things that the image from that eye JUST DOESN'T COUNT so it ' ignores ' it. So the best it can see, even corrected is less than 'normal'. You can force it to see better, but it'll never be like the 'normal' one your brain thinks works just fine. Still it does help some.
And don't expect steriopsis or 3 dimensional vision. It didn't develop, and won't...physiologically. You can try, do exercises, were patches, use drops to blur the good eye to force the bad eye...but the brain won't depend on it when it's competing with the 'good' eye when you are using them both.
Be glad they're straight and don't look so 'funny' anymore. And sometimes they will drift back. That can be re-fixed. Has to be over-corrected, then allowed to drift back to 'normal'.
I'd double check if you're a candidate... I also have a lazy eye and was told that the surgery would only improve the vision to the same level as my glasses/contacts do. Also, that I'm not a candidate because of the dominance of my other eye, if something went wrong and I lost that vision, I'd be up a creek. I'd discuss your options w/ your opthamologist.
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