So, I’ve had lazy eye all of my life. When I was a kid my parents tried everything (mostly the patch), but to no avail (I may have not been fully compliant with the patch; I was 3-4 years old at the time and hardly remember anything about it).
So I lived my whole life through one eye and it actually has not been a big deal. But suddenly I’m 52 years old and I have to wonder, has there been any advances in lazy eye curing? It’s been nearly 50 years, surely someone must have been working on that, right?
I did check online and there are some newflangles “exercises” and “apps” and so on, but they look iffy to me. I can’t find anything in reputable medical sites. Clearly you guys are my only hope.
Do I have any chance to see the world in 3D in my lifetime? Is there anything that’s, if not guaranteed, at least scientific enough? What say you?
My wife had corrective surgery when she was around 60 0r so. Beautiful results. They shortened the muscle on one side. Never regretted it. No scar or anything.
This is how it has been for me, adding some years. My eyesight has always been pretty bad, and it was just a bad thing to have “four eyes” so I managed to cheat the eye charts until age nine. My weak eye has a much higher collection them my primary, which probably was why it was lazy. Or maybe vice versa.
In HS my parents got me contacts (hard ones), and I got the weak eye over-corrected as much as possible, which did seem to help. I discovered some degree of true stereo vision that glasses never offered.
Recently, a friend of mine had a daughter, and she has a serious problem with strabismus. They took her to an optometrist, who prescribed a pair of corrective glasses that somehow force her eyes to align properly. Without them, she is still cross-eyed, so she wears them all the time, and they make her happy. They might make some kind of glasses that have the reverse affect. I guess I should have asked long ago.
I have a cousin in law with a lazy eye. It’s frankly very cute, and does not seem to bother her at all. I suppose the brain adjusts for that. I think people automatically look her right in the face/eyes. It really draws attention.
A little disconcerting at first, but kinda cute. Sort of like having one blue eye, and one brown eye. My SIL has that. It’s captivating.