For ‘lazy eye’ doesn’t the patch go over the good eye?
Gnarly, dude! I wonder where I could get some neodium magnets implanted…
The musician Momus wears one - he lost an eye to disease.
I own an eyepatch because I sometimes get a muscle spasm around my eye that is as annoying to look at as it is to live with. So I put a little tissue behind the patch and it holds my eye shut so the muscle can relax and quit freaking out.
Agreed. If I ever should go blind, I’m going to skip the dark sunglasses and, instead, wear two eyepatches.
I came down with Bell’s last year. I was lucky in that it only took me about six weeks to recover. At the worst of it, I couldn’t blink my left eye at all. It coincided with when we were having the crazy wild fires so the air was particularly sooty. I used an eye patch while walking the dog.
Yes, it does. I think the purpose of the patch is to force the use of the lazy eye. And as bufftabby pointed out, the patch is not worn constantly.
To those of you who have or do wear an eyepatch on occaison, do you feel like a bit more of a badass when you’re wearing it? Please say yes.
I tore my cornea 20 years ago. Took about three months for it to heal. For the first three weeks, I had to wear an eye patch. Thereafter I had to wear an occluder over the left lens of my glasses. Shagnasty is correct: cornea damage hurts like a sonuvabitch!
I tore it when I turned the wrong way into a dead tree branch while raking leaves one day. Ever heard the phrase, “It’s better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.” They’re right - anything is better than a poke in eye with a sharp stick! :eek:
I was one of those kids who had to wear a big adhesive patch over my dominant eye to encourage use of my lazy eye. I very much would have preferred an eyepatch. The adhesive on those patches yanked out a lot of eyebrow hair. 
My daughter had amblyopia, but it wasn’t the “wandering eye” kind. One eye was more far-sighted than the other, and I bless the optometrist at Sears, who looked at her eyes during the exam, nodded thoughtfully, and told me to take her to a pediatric opthamologist. Apparently, we caught it just in time…after about age 9, there’s not a lot they can do, as the brain has adjusted to the mismatched vision.
Her patch was worn over her good eye, from about lunch time to the time she got home from school, and she had stickers she could put on them. Now, while she still wears glasses, her vision is much improved and she doesn’t have amblyopia anymore.
Those have been around a long time, 'cuz I remember them from when I was a kid. The bright colored ones were kind of cool, but the kid with the flesh-colored patch freaked me out a little because it looked kind of like his skin had grown right over his eye.
Speaking of which, there was an actor in the Helm’s Deep portion of The Two Towers who clearly had a vacant eye socket. I’d always imagined something pretty disturbing behind those pirate patches, but he didn’t look bad at all.
I’ve worn one, but only in the dark,
CMC +fnord!
Or, you could be the head of an International Spy Organization.
Some people have trouble converging their eyes fully while reading, and will see double with both eyes open. They can wear an eyepatch while reading so they don’t have to keep one eye closed. When I read with my glasses or contacts off, I have this issue – which is why I hate reading with my glasses or contacts off! (Or doing anything else with them off for that matter, except of course for sleeping.)
I’m an optometry student, and we learn a lot of procedures that are done monocularly, like direct ophthalmoscopy and retinoscopy. I have no trouble shutting one eye and keeping it shut for hours on end, but apparently some of people in my lab section do, and bring an eyepatch with them for lab work and practicals.
Yes, there arrr several.
One needs an eye patch in order to sell shirts.
Several years ago, I got a metal sliver in my eye, which
the emergency room doctor tried to remove with the tip of a hypodermic needle, but he didn’t get all of it, so a few days later they had to remove it with a corneal drill, so I had to wear an eye patch for about two weeks. Even though it had been in the center of my vision, it eventually healed completely and I can see perfectly with it. (I’m impressed that my cornea could heal so correctly).
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