# What's the newest in lazy eye curing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 24, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-newest-in-lazy-eye-curing/987485 "2023-07-24T18:32:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Baggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Mr.Baggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Baggins)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-newest-in-lazy-eye-curing/987485/1 "2023-07-24T18:32:29Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-newest-in-lazy-eye-curing/987485/2 "2023-07-24T19:26:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-newest-in-lazy-eye-curing/987485/3 "2023-07-25T03:51:16Z")
> [@Mr.Baggins](#): > > I lived my whole life through one eye and it actually has not been a big deal. 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. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-newest-in-lazy-eye-curing/987485/4 "2023-07-25T21:26:16Z")
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.