I have strabismic amblyopia, and as a child I had eye patch and glasses treatment, but I don't think it did any good. I still have dramatically weaker vision in my lazy eye as an adult, and now that I'm past the half-century mark, I don't think there's much to do about it. I think if my strabismus had been more pronounced, the condition would have been caught earlier, but it's such a slight misalignment that it didn't get noticed until I was nine or ten years old.
I’m 73, wasn’t diagnosed with this until I was late in my teens. I’ve been told this is a brain condition, not an-eye condition, and it’s just too late for me
I was a premature baby born with a lazy eye, astigmatism ,and poor vision. I started wearing glasses at 1.5 years old, had eye surgery at 5 to correct the lazy eye, wore the patch, did the exercises, still wore glasses and it didn't really help. I had laser PRK in my early 20s. Now in my 40s I notice that my vision is getting bad again. When I am tired I notice my lazy eye gets worse.
I like how most of us here have lazy eye (myself included) because it makes me feel like we are all connected in a way because of the experience we had with our eyes
shout out to all my folks with a lazy eye. pretty sure we all had the same experience of hating wearing a patch as a kid. i used to scream and cry whenever my dad gave me eyedrops when i was younger and now my lazy eye is really bad. i love y'all and you are all beautiful in my (lazy) eyes. 💕
I dont have a lazy eye but im here because im really concerned about my friend he has lazy eyes but i cant talk to him because he is in a different country Is it serious?? Plz answer and i really really really hope you get better. And Please treat it because (*its a smaaall chance* ) to lose your vision And PlZ again treat it ❤️❤️
@@bigsmoke1295 having a lazy eye aint something serious. I mean, people can notice that you have some kind of problem. But it isnt serious! You can treat it with a surgery, but it isnt 100% sure if it will go back to normal. I, myself have a lazy eye, im just self concious because it is visible.
Manaos De Uva yea I was that age and I wouldn’t want to have it beacause I said I don’t want to be a pirate and here I am now 11 with it and got so worse I regret it to!!!! 😭😭😭
I've had my lazy eye for 18 years and I cry all the time because I never ever feel confident in myself and never look people in the eye. I wish I could get surgery for it ):
A lazy eye is nothing to be ashamed of. I bet you are stunning just the way u are, the lazy eye just adds to your individuality and (in my opinion) makes u look even cooler! No need to have surgery to fix something that is already beautiful. 💕
@@rebeccaarletta8855 that's horseshit . I had a lazy eye all my life and it's fucking suck. You can try having better / optimistic way of looking at it, but that doesn't change the way it is . I'm the same i can't look people in the eye sometimes i forget about it until someone brings it up and it feels depressing . Anyway my advice is to treat it now. And you don't have to make a surgery, just practice
Same when i was younger..feels better to just say scrww it and go on with life and teach people cause u look weird giving a side glance or not lookin at eye
Saaaame. I just recently saw an eye doctor who explained to me that patching is pretty much pointless because the moment you take it off, your brain will go back to favoring the usual eye. He also explained to me that if some sort of trauma were to happen to my "good" eye then my brain would eventually correct my vision so that my "bad" eye would see perfectly fine, but that it's impossible for me to ever have good vision out of both eyes at the same time. I've had different glasses prescriptions since I was 6 (now 26) and did patching when I was young but my vision hasn't changed a bit.
i’m 16 turning 17 and i have a lazy eye, my right eye wonders off to the right when i look straight whereas my left eye looks completely straight like a normal eye and i hate it because it’s very noticeable and people point it out reducing my confidence and because of this i hate making eye contact with people, i just wish it was straight just like my left eye :(
I never be confident to look at other people's eyes when we are talking. Sometime I try to just forget about my lazy eye and be confident but other people will bring it up like "aaa You LAZY EYES", "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT", "DO YOU LOOK AT ME" , "ATTENTION PLEASE". I smile but my heart really broke whenever I hear that things.
I understand more than anybody. Having this its a nightmare where you cand wake up. No one want to speak to me or see me i have 13y old and i have this for 2 years i fell like shit
I have also amblyopia, and it was detected when I was 14 then many doctors said It'll never get recovered :( Then another Eye specialist suggested me to do the eye patch, drawing with the left eye Yeah it worked for me!! Doctor encouraged me that you have to keep in your mind that you can do it! Believe in yourself, at the age of 20 I am hoping that my lazy eye will fix a little bit👁️🗨️ keep me in your prayers everybody🌸
I wasn't aware of having had an lazy eye until I watched this. Now I remember that I used to wear glasses and a patch. The best part of the treatment was that I got to watch cartoons for hours with the patch switching between my left and right eye. Doctor's order. No one could go against that.
@@meenugupta3656 My eyes look pretty normal now. I can't say I remember the exact conditions/treatments that I had since it was decades ago. My mom noticed something wrong with my eyes when I was 7 or 8. Better take your son to the doctor before it's too late. Good luck.
I have a lazy eye. I went through patching and eye therapy when I was about 8 years old. This fixed my strabismus, but unfortunately not my eyesight. I currently have 50% eye vision in my weaker eye, I see very poorly with it, but have learned to live with it :) It's comforting to see content about amblyopia, thank you so much.
Hi there! Just wondering, when you say "fixed my strabismus" you mean your eye does not drift over at all?? Ever? Or you mean that you can just control it now? Like if you completely relax your eyes do they drift into strabismus position? Thanks
@@inthetomorrows6528 hey! Idk if you’ll see this comment a year late but although I am not the original poster, I had a similar experience. Diagnosed with a lazy eye at 4 years old and did eye patch treatment as a kid although with no immediate results. Over the years I was able to control the eye and center it, although doing so made my vision blurry and unfocused as you described. Some years later in high school my glasses broke and I looked at myself in the mirror with clear vision and straight eyes. I have no idea what caused it but I’ve been living without glasses/contacts for around 6-7 years now. However, my lazy eye is still poor in vision. So while I see fine with both eyes remaining straight (and no conscious effort needed to keep them that way), were I to cover my good eye I wouldn’t be able to see much or read anything.
Exactly this shit has ruined our lives like we can’t hide our biggest insecurity, just today my friends were making fun of it right in front of my face shit sucks.
I think we can all agree that lazy eyes are rough, i'm going into my sophomore year of high school and i commonly get comments like "are you mentally all there?" "how do you make your eyes do that?" and let me tell you, that hurts so badly. I have had 2 eye surgeries and i am trying to convince my parents to let me have a 3rd one. Stay strong guys❤️
hey do u mind telling me about how your strabismus surgery went? i want to get it i am 15 and i am just wondering if there is a high chance of double vision or loss..!
@@mykerropi shoot I got 2 surgeries done when I was like 4 and I don’t rlly remember that but currently like 50% of ppl realize I have a lazy eye and not that many ppl care. It doesn’t completely get rid of it but you can control it a lot better. So I definitely recommend it. And vision-wise I got contacts and those help with sight a lot.
Ahh i see okay thank you so much!! Another question, do you know if it's safe? I am just scared about the concept of keeping my eye open while they cut into it.. I haven't got any surgeries when I was little because It is a mild case. My lazy eye doesn't move around much unless i am tired@@lindseywilson6854
Have had amblyopia since 6 years old. Same deal. Told to wear patch but always cheated. Lazy eye a little crossed until about 10yrs old, but straightened out on it's own. The sight in the bad eye of course never got any better. I have to say it did not stop me from doing anything I ever wanted to do. I never realized I didn't have real depth perception but the brain figures it out anyway. I can judge distances better than someone with two good eyes. I needed to at work. Any sports or even flying an airplane were no problem. I'm 63 now and my good eye is still 20/20, the other 20/200. Don't let it get you down. If you have one good eye, be happy you can see at all.
My goodness, he seems like he has THEEEEE BEST "bedside manner" when working with patients. 💕 His voice is comforting, reassuring and he made me feel like he knows EXACTLY what he's talking about. That SHOULD be the standard for "professionals" but that isn't always the case. Comfortability with your healthcare provider builds trust and makes the experience so much better.
I had lazy eye surgery when I was 2 years old. They over corrected my eye and I left it that way till I was 39. I just had lazy eye surgery 03/24//21. I would give surgery a try. Medical technology has changes so much since my first surgery and I am happy with my results so far.
Great video! I had struggled with lazy eye for decades, and became aware of Vision Therapy a few years ago. I now train my eyes daily, and even went so far as to start my own Vision Therapy channel so I could help others with amblyopia and/or strabismus. There is lots you can do, and the sooner you get started, the sooner it can be rectified!
Wellness, all. My right eye is lazy and i started correction with eye patch and eye drops at 2 year's old. 8 year's old glass and at 15 years old corrective surgery with glass currently. And just know theirs someone out there that loves everything about you including your special outstanding self💚
When I was in mexico, they told me that surgery was my only option. In that moment my eye went the opposite way of the other, but now people have to look at me directly at the eyes to notice, without the surgery. I don't know how
Got diagnosed with strabismic/anisometropic amblyopia at 4, went through patching, and VT along with a hefty Glasses Rx. I’m now 25 with a BCVA of 20/40 In the right eye. Just glad to have had a great optometrist growing up. It was her love of the profession that made me want to go to Optometry school. Sure the lack of stereo makes it challenging but wouldn’t be here if not for that experience. Its been awesome to learn more about amblyopia and the things we can do to help.
My son is 2 and has it in the right eye so the doctor is starting him off with drops 3 times a week because we know he’s not going to wear the eye patch, then he’ll be seen again in 2 months... Good luck hun🙏🏾
Patching works very well, At a young age, I had lazy eye, and got it treated, wore eyepatch while playing video games, Now i'm 18 and you can't even tell i had a lazy eye in the first place! Still can't see completely properly out of it, but it's a whole heck of a lot better then it used to be.
@@darksoul9432 he’s being treated for it with eye drops every other day in the left eye to strengthen the right eye and in January he’ll be fitted for glasses, he’s not severe. Thanks for your concern🙏🏾
To all of you struggling with hating your lazy eye: when j was younger I hated my lazy eye as well. I wouldn't ever cry about it, but I would get really upset and depressed that people made fun of my eye. After a while, I learned to laugh about it instead of hating it and it made it fun when people asked about it or laughed at it. I hope you all can start to see your eye in a positive light!
Lol yes, it's part of me and even though people can be horrible sometimes or ignorant of how their questions/remarks might make you feel , I've learned to accept my lazy eye and it's unique to me😎
I would like to thank you because you have helped me to alleviate horrible suffering. I have suffered with dry eyes for years and Blepharitis flare ups. No single physician advised me as well as your videos have. I have been suffering horribly but your advice has changed my life!!! Thank you thank you thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Haha this is so interesting bcus I realized majority of us in the comment section (myself included) are a bunch of people with lazy eyes and I find that hilarious for some reason
It seems most of us have been bullied for it as well! Honestly find it so terrifying if I get into a fight cause I know I won't be able to defend myself.
I become introverted just because of those eyes. most important I lost confidence while talking to people. i can't directly look at other people eyes. :) it's really sad when people say are you looking at me? 😇
it's hard, it's so hard being like this...i can't have a boyfriend...i can't talk to people properly... and i'm scared of bullying like "who you looking at"? I just want to go to the fucking hospital and get anither eye like why did they make me like this bro i'm crying everyday just why
My lazy eye was corrected when I was a kid (patches, glasses, exercises, all that jazz), but it's not gone completely. There are moments sometimes, not very often, when my right eye needs to "catch up" with my left one and sometimes people notice it, especially those who spend more time with me. I had a few "boyfriends" in the past but at some point I get a feeling that they stay around because they feel sorry for me or something, maybe when they notice my lazy eye. People will just see the lazy eye, not the person or the personality. I guess it could bother me if I let it, but I just don't care. If anyone makes a stupid remark, just tell the person off and make them feel like they are total jerks. Ask them, what if your kid is born this way, will they laugh too? Don't let this thing overpower you, really, these people are not worth it. And do the exercises, they do help, no matter the age.
Same it’s so hard when ever I meet someone online and I have to tell them that I have a lazy eye because I don’t want them to make fun of me when we meet in person haha, most of the time they end up ghosting me or straight up telling me that they can’t take someone with a lazy eye serious, I just wish i could rip my eyes off and get a new pair lol
@@ferby111__6 if you want to get rid of this problem then you can have a Surgery. Which will solve your problem.(in my country that surgery only cost around 300$)
same, however I'm 15 and I have a contact lens for my lazy eye that I can plop in whenever I feel like it. Would recommend this to anyone with a lazy eye.
I can fell my left eye wander off everytime im on computer, daydreamin or sleeping Im tired people judging me when we first met, i only wish they could stop asking
Omg, i relate to u so much. Sometimes idk if my left eye is straight or not and i became very self conscious of my eyes especially when i was being recorded or photographed without me looking at my own reflection
I am born with strabismus and I don’t care because I love and appreciate my self. I don’t want to do surgery because that’s how I am created. The most important thing is to love yourself for who u re and do the things that you love and will benefit you later in the future ❤️ people sometimes tell me about it. I always response to them that “I know right and I love it, I love the way I am, at least am better than the blind, people with no legs or hands you know” For all those that have lazy eye. Don’t worry my dear, you are great. You have many skills that many without lazy eye have. Be great full and appreciate yourself if you wanna live happily❤️ I love ya all ❤️ mwah 💋
I'm happy for you but for me I just can't get over it, I'm 32 now but my self confident is very low when I think about it or seeing people looking at me
@@mduduziqwabe7136 exactly the same here I am 32 like you and can not look at the people eyes ! And we can not never ever feel what is to see in 3D stereoscopic, this sucks, becouse our distance judgment is very poor :( plus I have very bad vision as well
I am 87 years old and have just been told I have one lazy eye. Thank you dear parents for taking me to an ear, nose, throat doctor time after time and my tonsils peeled numerous times.
Am I the only one who's having a hard time falling asleep because of my lazy eye? 🥺 I mean I can control my eyes right when I'm awake but my eyes are not even when closing or asleep...
Hang in there guys. I had an accident in my left eye when I was really young. Partially blind in my left eye which led me to develop a lazy droopy left eye. Wearing glasses helps but I get comments till this day. It hurts less over time and you learn to live with it. I’m hoping these exercises help. Great video!
Hi i am 13 yearsand my right eye is lazy eye and i wear spectacles too and sometimes eye patch too so should I be worried, i visited doctor too but my left is working good 🧿 should i be worried
Honestly I just feel like I need to post this here growing up I feel like everyone in this comment section can relate, having a lazy eye produces my confidence to literally nothing I can't look at anyone in the eyes I'm always looking down I can remember countless times in class or even my teachers with joke about it it has literally been my only thing I can't change people at school picking on me for it and my parents it's the one thing I wish I could just change, I've had surgeries and I patched it for about 4 years got the eye drops, and nothing has happened it's just gotten progressively worse over the years
Thank you so much for sharing. I know you are not a lone and yes, having an eye turn can significantly impact people. But believe me, your worth has never been based on your eyes or how you look.
@@DoctorEyeHealth i can activate my double vision and deactivate it I could do this since when i was a child then is no change in sevral years in my eyes
if you cant fix it, embrace it 😁 embrace that and dont let it touch u. You can cover up that insecurity with getting fit body, reading books, getting some completely new skills, literally, just grow in every aspect of your life... and when you get older the "lazy eye" will be just a word from your younger days. Just dont stress it out so much, embrace it. Its simpler but not easier i know,but far from impossible
I was born with amblyopia in my left eye and was detected at around age 7 and was given an eye patch but being a little kid I would take it off 😅 But my eyeball moves normally, I don’t have the typical lazy eye look some people have. I am 32 now and I have gotten used to the low vision in my left eye. I’m thankful for the good eye I have.
@AAAnt M in my opinion if the person is fat,his eye will look less squint and if he do masterbation then he will be thinner(due to lack of some vitamins) and his eye will look more squint.
I was made to wear an eye patch when I was really young. It seemed to have worked. I was real self conscious with the tan patch and people staring. They gave me the black "pirate patch" and people didn't stare as much. Back in the early 1970's. I like your channel.
Dr, I remember having been treated as a teenager, by patching my better eye. And some years ago at 70 again with some exercises at the eye clinic, looking at a red light, fixing my both eyes on it. It worked very well.
Fellow eye doc over here! I must say your educational videos are so thoughtfully presented for our patients. So many great topics patients have a hard time researching! Thank you for providing this wonderful information to the public. Any upcoming videos talking about more developmental eye teaming and tracking disorders? I.e. Strabismus, CE, CI, accommodative insufficiency etc? Love your channel! Definitely sharing with my patients
I have spent the last 18 years of my life being constantly self conscious of a condition that is extremely more common than I have ever known. I am currently using an eye patch to try and treat it naturally. Thank you so much for this upload!
Did they work? Do I still have a chance if I go back to the doctor? Cause I'm 13 and my mom tried to make me to wear patches when I was 4-7, but I would always take them off when she wasn't looking. I regret it now whenever I think about it, But I dont want to get surgery at 18 unless nothing else worked. And my vision in my lazy eye is so bad that I cant even read anything because the words go invisible or I cant focus. I really want to join the army so I need 20/20 vision in good eye and ATLEAST 20/70 in the lazy WITH correction glasses.
I have lazy eye too..... I'm 11 years old... ..I hate wearing patch..reading all the comments of people like me relieve my stress...it was diagnosed month ago.....I wear a bandage patch......I'm using my moms phone........this video helped me to understand my eye condition Thanks for all the support everyone
This gives me so much hope. I never realized just how much my lazy eye affected my daily life like constantly bumping into things and people or not seeing the next stair step an falling. I even had an EX give a reason for wanting to break up with me because I was "too clumsy." My doctor was very much lazy and gave the excuse that " I had good control" over my lazy, so there was never any attempt to correct it. It has just gotten worse with age. Looking forward to the day that I'll be free~
When I was four years old (I'm 63 now) I had surgery to correct my amblyopia. Dr Bejamin Sachs, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. I believe my eyesight is fine although I don't have anything to compare it to. I do have some interesting behavior because of it. When I get very tired my eye (right eye) drifts out. I have to consciously aim both eyes forward. When I drive, left eye is on the road, right eye is in the rear view mirror. When I force my right eye forward I feel like I'm in a tunnel and it's not comfortable. I wear reading glasses or bifocals when I need good distance sight. I tried progressives and had a tough time adjusting to them. I work with computers a lot and have a hard time going from close to screen to distance. I maxed out my non-prescription reading glasses at 3.5. The sight in my right eye is much worse than my left and I cover my left at times to hopefully make it stronger. Most of the time I don't even think about it but that's my story.
Yes I've been treated lol, 14 yrs old now, did all those nothing changed much but 10 - now it improved a lot by itself. I wore glasses tho on and off. I'm just grateful to God that both my eyes are functional and well and I don't struggle much ( besides people asking are you talking to me?😂).🙏🏽
I’ve had lazy eyes as long as I can remember, I probably saw countless specialists to have it fixed. couple of years ago I was told that I have congenital glaucoma did multiple tests but still hasn’t been confirmed 🤔 I totally get not being able see some one straight in the face and I always walk with my head down, that messed up my posture 😅
Amblyopia, astigmatism right eye, strabismus both eyes. Left handed, ADHD, a surprasellar meningioma from age 28, a trigeminal meningioma resection in 2019. Lots of head trauma from a young age. You get what you get.
After watching videos about amblyopia, I just realized, just- just now that I have amblyopia. Like omg, I was living for 13 years and 11 months plus going to an ophthalmologist but no one ever told me that I have amblyopia! Thank you so much to the videos of Doctor Eye Health! Your videos helped me a lot. Btw, I'm a nearsighted. -14 on the left, -16 on the right. Hope that our eyes will get well soon!
I was diagnosed with Refractive Amblyopia at the age of 25. I always had poor vision on my right eye, but I had no idea it was a problem, because when I had both my eyes opened, I would see just fine, even very small text. During my second year of university, I started to notice that my vision altered a bit, and then after a while I went to a doctor for a check. They said that I didn't have binocular sight at all and that's why my healthy eye started to develop astigmatism for being overly used. So they had me wear a pair of glasses in order for the brain to catch the image from my right eye as well. In time, after another check, they said that my binocular sight is starting to develop, and now, unfortunately, with both eyes opened i see the focused image of my healthy eye and also some blurred duplicates from my right eye. What the doctors are unable to explain is why if i place an object really close to my eye, right below the line of sight and the thing i'm looking at, I see it perfectly, no duplicates.
I, at 54, was just diagnosed with a lazy eye! And my eye doctor said simply "At your age, it can't be fixed" and says it's why we can't get the exact correct Rx for my glasses. It took me 3 weeks before I questioned the doctor's statement. If you haven't already, you should do a video about how to tell the difference between a good eye doctor and a bad one!
As a child, I got teased by wearing an eye patch and ditched it. Now an adult. I was prescribed glasses to manage astignmatism and amblyopia/ strabismus on my left eye, the weaker eye, getting a higher power: OD -100 OS -150 With these glasses, my eye have always been in sync. I might want to check with my eye doctor if I may get contact lenses as an alternative.
P.S. Another alternative that was considered was a botox injection to the eye muscles (something like that), but was told that the effect diminishes after about 6 months, and had to be redone. Surgery is another, aside from complications, over correction is always a possibility.
I treated my eyes by myself. I have started first with pencil exercise. Then i start using the eye patches and from the first day I was able to control my eyes and make them look together at the same direction. Eyes patches help you to feel inside your eyes and make them look straight together. Other very helpful thing that try to look from the middle, I mean not from the right or the Left so you can draw long Imaginary line starts from your noise and that will give you a very good hint about how to control your eyes. other thing you can look at some point and make sure that your eyes look at the same point by switching between both. After I did all these exercises I am totally able to feel inside my eyes and control them. You can look at some eye digram and learn more about its inside parts so that will help a lot to realize how you are supposed to deal with it.
@@nibharai1908 as soon as you learn how to treat your eyes, so if you use the batches to close the good eye and use the lazy, it will not take that long, just close the good eye for couple of hours during the day and it will be the best if it's at the morning but don't keep the good eye closed using the batches for long because that will hurt your good eye if keep it closed for long. Not More than two hours a day, after 30 days, you will hopefully have big improvements but just keep working on them and don't give up at all and good luck but at the same time I am not a doctor and I am just sharing what I have experienced
Hey doctor my eyes are straight most of the time but sometimes when I look at my phone or screen it my left eye moves to the left and when I cover that eye
I don’t have a particular serious case by any means. In fact no one’s every noticed and I haven’t even been aware of it myself until recently. I notice that when I focus on something long enough for a period of time my right eye loses focus and drifts. The first time I noticed this was when I was simply doing my hair in the mirror. I’m able to reverb instantly but it is quite annoying as it also tends to give me a bit of a headache/ migraine when it occurs more than once in the day.
I’m 18 and have had 2 surgeries to fix my lazy eye. But it just comes back, will consider therapy now that I’m trying to join the military and this is stopping me from doing so
Its so weird. I can feel when my eye is being mischievous. My doctor says it comes back when my eyes get tired so I'm wearing glasses all the time now. But instead of seeing when my eye goes wandering, I just feel it. Doing some tests at home and I feel like my brain is now just ignoring all input from my lazy eye. In your last video about this you mentioned how you can have a dominant eye... I can pick and choose what eye I'm looking out of. I'm ambidextrous with my eyes. Its.... Interesting. I had it when I was very young. Went through everything, Started with glasses, Moved to a patch as well as exercises. (The patch was a lot cooler as a kid). It was all unsuccessful. I moved onto surgery when I was about 8 or 9. I was told It could return in my late teens. Sure enough, I started seeing and feeling symptoms again. Now I'm in my 20's and still getting worse... The patch is coming again...
Hey! After recovering from Covid I've suddenly been feeling my eyes aren't normal. Whenever I wake up in the morning it is difficult to align them. After sometime they become fine but I can choose which eye to keep straight and which eye to move outwards. I consulted a doctor but he said to give it 2-3 months and it's due to the covid virus my muscles have weakned. Is it so? Or is this the same thing happening to you too?
My eye started to turn in for the first time just this past summer. I was told it was lazy eye but I don’t really have any significant eye sight problems in my other eye.
I feel like my lazy eye is acute, but its been a serious point of insecurity my whole life. I'm relatively lucky though, because as long as i'm actively remembering to use my left eye muscle more i can keep it straight with my right one. Theres people that have known me for years and dont even know i have it unless i tell them or if they catch me having to keep up with fast movements.
I had three eye surgeries when I was 3 years old 4 years old and 5 years old. None of them worked. And thirteen or fourteen years old I was introduced to eye exercises, anything to help quite a bit but I stopped doing them and eventually got cross-eyed again. People are always wondering who you're looking at when you talk to them, you know when they turn their head and look behind them. Good side to it is that you can look at two different people or whatever at the same time.
I'm grateful for this video. I'm hoping this works. I didn't have lazy eye from birth. It developed gradually over time, and because I am quite insecure. I ask God to make this work.
I started as a kid with the patch and have worn glasses since I've been 2. Drops were tried and tried pretty much everything under the sun. It wasn't as noticeable when I was wearing glasses, but became very noticeable once I started wearing contact lenses. I had two surgeries for my lazy eye (most recent was 15 years ago). It's mostly unnoticeable now unless I look up really high. I've declined a third surgery because it doesn't bother me that much and I have problems coming out of surgeries in general.
I dunno if i have a lazy eye but later in my 20's i started having any of my eyes moving outward from time to time, mainly when am tired. Now in my late 30's it's gotten worse i would say. I can view straight but sometimes wihtout realising any one of my eyes would just move outward and mainly when am really sleepy and tired. Trying to keep them straight causes some eye strain sometimes.. Any advice on this?
yeah this just started happening to me & my eyes would start to kinda burn, almost like you’re trying to have staring contest w someone. My glasses aren’t helping & my vision & lazy eyes is getting progressively worse. Keep me in your prayer! God bless! ❤️
I’m 21.. at 6 I was diagnosed with a lazy eye, at 9 I had to have a lens transplant surgery, and things did get better for me.. I gave my parents such a hard time but I’m glad they made that decision to help my eye, HOWEVER i I still have problems with it.. still wear glasses and sometimes I patch with my little sister who also has a lazy eye and maybe she’ll get the surgery too cause it’s as bad as mine.. idk it’s such a hard thing to live with and I relate so much with the comments.. hopefully we all try harder and heal even when it’s difficult.
Born with strabismus. After two surgeries as a toddler, I now have amblyopia in my left eye. I did the standard glasses and patching up to around 9. No significant improvements. This was in the 80s. My left eye is definitely suppressed. I can see, but I can't focus in on anything. I've been kept out of certain careers (aviation) that require stereoscopic vision, but I've managed.
@@pennydrake5585 i think its fine for fun and entertainment purposes as long as one's not overly doing it for a long period of time, but yeah, that's my opinion
Penny Drake what are you talking about? You can’t become amblyopic from crossing your eyes… amblyopia is a lazy eye as a result from different prescriptions greater value than 3 diopters (A.k.a. a varying image size of more than 5%, which causes the brain to not be able to fuse the images together) The eyes looking towards your nose is a normal muscular movement it commonly happens while looking at near objects it’s called convergence.
I was diagnose with amblyopia when i was 4 , aftr tht doctor advised me patching i started it i was in school tht time kids of my age started making fun of me they use to bully me every single day i decided not to wear the patch anymore , since then i was just wearing glasses now i am married nw i am a father of one i usually suffer frm severe headache todayy i just came across to doctor he says that i 've lost my left eye eventually i would'nt be able to see light everything will be completely blank..., i am nw helpless .. jst sharing a hard life moment with you guys that bullying can ruin someone's life like mine so
I’m 16 now and I feel the exact same. I never wanted to wear my patch as a kid because I didn’t want to get bullied.because of this I rarely wore it and I regret it. I just now started researching and I just want to try and find a way to cure it. Vision is clear on the lazy eye but I can barely read and focus on things. Surprisingly I tried playing some video games though and I did pretty good. I just really want to know there’s hope to fix it. Sorry for what you have. Hopefully in the future they find some way to fix it.
I had a major eye sport injury. I had to undergo 2 surgeries in the left cause I experienced complete loss of sight. Initially after the surgery was done my eyes seemed normal. After a year i developed a lazy eye or extropia towards the left. Though my eye seems normal, my left eye starts drifting towards the left mostly when im stressed,lack of sleep, or when im staring at someone or something. I feel extremely concious looking into someones eye. Even at serious conversations i tend to distract my eye at times into looking at something else so that my left eye aligns. At times people may feel im not interested or im beind disrespectful to their conversation by looking away. Hope it gets better
Genuinely did it pretty consistently "wear an eye patch" never did get better wish i knew about the eye training that would have been useful 14 years ago
I can relate so much to the comment section its such a hard time having lazy eye. Im 17 now and I didnt had like any girlfriend like ever, I dont consider myself ugly but I think that 90% is because of that like it hits me so hard when in elementary school my friends would say to some really not so pretty girl that I want to go to prom to her (which I didnt) and she looked me in the face dead serious and told me "sorry I dont wanna go because of the eye" like that was the moment when my confidence went like unerground and like for any reason a girl rejects me it is like ur a good friend or that some kind of shit and I think that they didnt wanted to offend me bcs of the eye. all in all tough times :/
Its okay buddy, opinions by the end of the day, gotta learn to not give a shit and be yourself cause this life is more than just your body, achieve things and make a good future for yourself with people who love you for just you, let your personality shine
When I'm looking at something I feel like my left eye is going outwards, but I don't see a difference in vision. When I check my eyes on a mirror I feel like they're not normal anymore. I need an answer pls help.
Ash nah bro i don’t feel any pain neither do i feel any stress, depth preception issue, or any kind of vision problem ( but i do have high myopia), just the thing is that when i look sidewards, my right eye drifts way too much right, and i feel it looks kinda weird, but so far i don’t have any vision issues so i wonder if i have any problem like strabismus or exotropia or is it all just in my head, cuz whenever i look sidewards, it looks like i have a crossed eye or strabismus. What do u think?
I also have a similar condition. I've learned how to move my eye into the position it suppose to be in but i have no focus in both eyes now and i might be legally blind.
28f here. Born with crossed eyes & blind. Had surgery at 2 to fix that. Now have near 20/20 vision in my right eye but 20/200 in my left. My left eye does turn out now when I'm tired or I take certain medications, one of which I have to take daily. It's extremely embarrassing & is my biggest insecurity. When I was 8 my parents took me back to the eye doctor. I had been cheating on my eye exams at school so they thought my vision was fine. One day I held my hand in front of my right eye & said to my brother "I can see through my hand" & my parents realized something was wrong cause I sincerely thought I could somehow. Eye doctor was the same person who did my surgery & I had to wear an eye patch for a year. Unfortunately I always peeked out of it. It did no good in the long run. Now I'm stuck with this ugly eye. The vision isn't really a big issue for me. I can see well enough to pass an eye exam for driving & it's not a huge issue in my daily life. My eye turning out IS a big issue. I wish there was a way to fix it but since it's only when I'm on these meds I know there's no fixing it. I had my first child 8 years ago & he wears glasses because he has anisometropia. Doctor is hoping that his vision can be repaired so he doesn't end up with the same issue as me. I hope so too.
Thank You for this informative video. I was just told a couple days ago that my 1 year old has amblyopia and I was very concerned. My 5 year old had strabismus surgery a couple months ago and to think that now my daughter is also struggling with her visions is scary. Thank you for this video. Gave me a little piece of mind that she can recover from this with her new glasses 🤞 .
I've had lazy eye since I was a kid and whenever I get really tired it really goes more to the right and I get self-conscious about going and talking to people
I’m an adult 38 tried eye therapy at 33 didn’t work. Had surgery 6 days ago and doble visión is gone, I now have depth perception and 3D vision. I recommend surgery if your an adult
a few days ago, i realized that my left eye draws in when i look straight and anywhere else and sometimes when i look at something too long it starts hurting. also when i realized this sometimes when i get up too fast i kind of loose balance and fall out. i don’t know if this has something to do with my eye or just my regular health but i do think i need help.
I have a lazy eye and im 15, also a competitive gamer. I always wanted to fix my eye but I don't even think its possible anymore my vision is not even that bad its just the eye wanders off by itself.
I am 19 years old and I was first treated for amblyopia and very slight outward strabismus when I was 5 or 6 years old. I never noticed a problem with my sight until a physical and the doctor told me to look at the sight board and I couldn't read the biggest letter with my left eye. After a visit to optometrist they confirmed I had a lazy eye after that I started using patches for 4 hours everyday and started wearing glasses. I knew that wearing the patch was working but after a while of wearing everyday I grew so tired and annoyed of it. Putting on Vaseline on my eyebrow every time, pealing off one with really strong adhesive hurt, and new people seeing me wear it and asking my mom "what happened" thinking i was injured. The most memorable time was at the store, a younger kid than me went out of his way to go almost in front of me to see the eyepatch, even though i wasn't able to read letters clear, I clearly saw his face. I was never too embarrassed after spending so much time wearing, but eventually it became a hassle. I might forget one day to put it on or for not long enough so the next day i would put in on for longer (I don't know if we were supposed to do that). Eventually i forgot to put on often enough that i just stop, knowing that it will leave permanent results. I have wore glasses ever since. Patching when i was young in my case did greatly build clarity in my left eye, though i am clearly right dominant, my peripheral vision is great. When looking only through my left i cannot see small details clearly i can at least tell when ball if flying towards me with or without my glasses. I am just now trying on contacts for practical reasons, masks and glasses don't mix, but i wish i was mature enough back then to realize it was what was best for me regardless how many people asked or how annoying patching was. I don't have 2020 vision but I'm glad that i can see what i can.
I have lazy eye in my right eye, and even though it's very hard to notice nowadays, I'm still frustrated that I just can't read easily using that eye. It doesn't even look blurry to me anymore, I just can't focus on the letters for some reason. That being said, it is far better than having my right eye drift off outwards and wearing glasses that I got teased for wearing.
Same goes for me. I do see things blurred but most of the times when I try reading letters I fail to focus on them. It's an amalgamation of blurred vision + inability to focus on letters....
Eye Health QOTD: Do you have lazy eye and have you tried any treatments for it? What was your experience?
I have strabismic amblyopia, and as a child I had eye patch and glasses treatment, but I don't think it did any good. I still have dramatically weaker vision in my lazy eye as an adult, and now that I'm past the half-century mark, I don't think there's much to do about it. I think if my strabismus had been more pronounced, the condition would have been caught earlier, but it's such a slight misalignment that it didn't get noticed until I was nine or ten years old.
@@khalilcool7507 I don't think EM would gel with his school of thought.
I’m 73, wasn’t diagnosed with this until I was late in my teens. I’ve been told this is a brain condition, not an-eye condition, and it’s just too late for me
I was a premature baby born with a lazy eye, astigmatism ,and poor vision. I started wearing glasses at 1.5 years old, had eye surgery at 5 to correct the lazy eye, wore the patch, did the exercises, still wore glasses and it didn't really help. I had laser PRK in my early 20s. Now in my 40s I notice that my vision is getting bad again. When I am tired I notice my lazy eye gets worse.
Doctor Eye Health ur eye color is beautiful !!!
*no one knows what insecurities really are until you have amblyopia*
my lazy and partially blind left eye 👁->👃👁
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Ik
I have lazy eye,but still happy because it's better than blindness :)
Good perspective
Me too 🥰
doesnt it lead to blindness when you get older?
@@Omnizxs well maybe but I have some terrible lazy eye my right eye is legally blind
Same
I like how most of us here have lazy eye (myself included) because it makes me feel like we are all connected in a way because of the experience we had with our eyes
Yes that's what i was thinking
Yeah my left eye is a lazy eye and I can barely see anything out of it luckily I have a right eye 😂
@@TylerINFOCUS same here but my right eyes have shortsight 😔💔
@@TylerINFOCUS same here bro only difference having is tht it's my right eye
Right!? Lazy eye gang~
I HATE WHEN I MEET PEOPLE AND THEY ASK ME
“Why is your eye smaller then the other”
LIKE JUST LEAVE ME ALONE IM BORN WITH IT
i can understand because i have same problem :(
That's stupid, that is like asking somebody why they need a wheelchair or something
haha i hate it so much like im slowly becoming so insecure about it since my dad started taking pictures of me like doing stuff haha iiiihatelife
Same then they asked why I have super thick eyeglasses. The grade of my eye is 1000 left,1300 right, last year. Then my eyeglasses was both 700.
I CAN RELATE And THEY SAY THE SAME THING BUT SOME HOW PEOPLE STILL FIND ME ATTRACTIVE LIKE TF 💀
shout out to all my folks with a lazy eye. pretty sure we all had the same experience of hating wearing a patch as a kid. i used to scream and cry whenever my dad gave me eyedrops when i was younger and now my lazy eye is really bad. i love y'all and you are all beautiful in my (lazy) eyes. 💕
I dont have a lazy eye but im here because im really concerned about my friend he has lazy eyes but i cant talk to him because he is in a different country
Is it serious?? Plz answer and i really really really hope you get better. And Please treat it because (*its a smaaall chance* ) to lose your vision
And PlZ again treat it ❤️❤️
@@bigsmoke1295 having a lazy eye aint something serious. I mean, people can notice that you have some kind of problem. But it isnt serious! You can treat it with a surgery, but it isnt 100% sure if it will go back to normal. I, myself have a lazy eye, im just self concious because it is visible.
I wish my mom had put an eyepatch on me to fix it
Same problem here
i had a lazy eye since I was 6 and I'm 12 now and it only got worse
I used the eye patch at 7 but I didnt know why so I used to take it off when my parents weren't looking. I regret it
Manaos De Uva yea I was that age and I wouldn’t want to have it beacause I said I don’t want to be a pirate and here I am now 11 with it and got so worse I regret it to!!!! 😭😭😭
Cookie._. Lover I am 17 with it
Same. Now i'm 21 and i have - 9 of miopía in the right eye. Of course now I use contac lenses to not let my eye die. : €
Manaos De Uva tell me about it 😔
Manaos De Uva OMG ME TOO!! WTF i can’t fucking see at all😔
I've had my lazy eye for 18 years and I cry all the time because I never ever feel confident in myself and never look people in the eye. I wish I could get surgery for it ):
A lazy eye is nothing to be ashamed of. I bet you are stunning just the way u are, the lazy eye just adds to your individuality and (in my opinion) makes u look even cooler! No need to have surgery to fix something that is already beautiful. 💕
I often feel the same especially when I don't get enough sleep.🙈
@@rebeccaarletta8855 that's horseshit . I had a lazy eye all my life and it's fucking suck. You can try having better / optimistic way of looking at it, but that doesn't change the way it is . I'm the same i can't look people in the eye sometimes i forget about it until someone brings it up and it feels depressing . Anyway my advice is to treat it now. And you don't have to make a surgery, just practice
Same when i was younger..feels better to just say scrww it and go on with life and teach people cause u look weird giving a side glance or not lookin at eye
I had surgery but it went back the same .
It dont pop up in ur recommendation
U search for it
I wish we all can recover:(
🙂 stay strong
@@SamarthxAGENT:)
The eye doctor was always like "there's no hope"
Same and I’d literally cry about it 😭
Same too! They literally at first told me there is nothing they can do get on with my life...
They said I would go blind by age 11 or 12 but I'm almost 19 now and my vision is the same
Saaaame. I just recently saw an eye doctor who explained to me that patching is pretty much pointless because the moment you take it off, your brain will go back to favoring the usual eye. He also explained to me that if some sort of trauma were to happen to my "good" eye then my brain would eventually correct my vision so that my "bad" eye would see perfectly fine, but that it's impossible for me to ever have good vision out of both eyes at the same time. I've had different glasses prescriptions since I was 6 (now 26) and did patching when I was young but my vision hasn't changed a bit.
same;(
i’m 16 turning 17 and i have a lazy eye, my right eye wonders off to the right when i look straight whereas my left eye looks completely straight like a normal eye and i hate it because it’s very noticeable and people point it out reducing my confidence and because of this i hate making eye contact with people, i just wish it was straight just like my left eye :(
Omg me to the same exact thing but my family would be like blink you cockeyed or I blink a lot because I have eye floaters also
@@issacherry8598 im also.. my right eyes is lazy.... my right eyes vision is very poor now and it gets totally lazy now. i feel hopeless now
Hindi Mai bolo
Sameeee 😭😭
How will it feel when everyone is making fun of you , bcoz of your crossed eye and nobody supporting you at that point of time
I never be confident to look at other people's eyes when we are talking. Sometime I try to just forget about my lazy eye and be confident but other people will bring it up like "aaa You LAZY EYES", "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT", "DO YOU LOOK AT ME" , "ATTENTION PLEASE". I smile but my heart really broke whenever I hear that things.
So sorry to hear that struggle. Have you considered having it corrected?
I understand more than anybody. Having this its a nightmare where you cand wake up. No one want to speak to me or see me i have 13y old and i have this for 2 years i fell like shit
Yes people are cruel and thats what I dealt with all in school!! Makes me so insecure most time. People can sense that....
its so rude when people ask like duhh as you can see. I honestly wish people would ignore it.
So sorry you're experiencing comments like that. :(
I have also amblyopia, and it was detected when I was 14 then many doctors said It'll never get recovered :( Then another Eye specialist suggested me to do the eye patch, drawing with the left eye
Yeah it worked for me!! Doctor encouraged me that you have to keep in your mind that you can do it! Believe in yourself, at the age of 20 I am hoping that my lazy eye will fix a little bit👁️🗨️ keep me in your prayers everybody🌸
What exercises did you use? How much time per day?
I'm scared that the eye patch will confuse my eyes and make my other eye crossed and my crossed eye straight.
Is it possible
Now after two years can you tell us what is the results?
Unfortunately this guy passed away due to heart attack after writing this comment (I knew him personally) @@nadir6704
I wish i didn’t have one it makes me cry every day
Me too
I'm sorry to hear that...
Me too. I wish I just continue wearing my eye patch before when I was a child.
Same
No need to cry guys, it’s not a big deal, stay strong
when someone says "why are you staring at me?" I wasn't even looking at them... and people make fun of my eye bc one is small and one is big
Society sucks. Hope your eye gets better! :)❤❤
How u deal with it?
I wasn't aware of having had an lazy eye until I watched this. Now I remember that I used to wear glasses and a patch. The best part of the treatment was that I got to watch cartoons for hours with the patch switching between my left and right eye. Doctor's order. No one could go against that.
Hi, wanted to know to what extent your eye got corrected. My son is in same condition. If possible please share
@@meenugupta3656 My eyes look pretty normal now. I can't say I remember the exact conditions/treatments that I had since it was decades ago. My mom noticed something wrong with my eyes when I was 7 or 8. Better take your son to the doctor before it's too late. Good luck.
Bro same thats me rn
I have a lazy eye. I went through patching and eye therapy when I was about 8 years old. This fixed my strabismus, but unfortunately not my eyesight. I currently have 50% eye vision in my weaker eye, I see very poorly with it, but have learned to live with it :) It's comforting to see content about amblyopia, thank you so much.
Hi there! Just wondering, when you say "fixed my strabismus" you mean your eye does not drift over at all?? Ever? Or you mean that you can just control it now? Like if you completely relax your eyes do they drift into strabismus position? Thanks
@@inthetomorrows6528 hey! Idk if you’ll see this comment a year late but although I am not the original poster, I had a similar experience. Diagnosed with a lazy eye at 4 years old and did eye patch treatment as a kid although with no immediate results. Over the years I was able to control the eye and center it, although doing so made my vision blurry and unfocused as you described. Some years later in high school my glasses broke and I looked at myself in the mirror with clear vision and straight eyes. I have no idea what caused it but I’ve been living without glasses/contacts for around 6-7 years now. However, my lazy eye is still poor in vision. So while I see fine with both eyes remaining straight (and no conscious effort needed to keep them that way), were I to cover my good eye I wouldn’t be able to see much or read anything.
I see 12 precent whit my left eye, so you lucky ig
@@dv_. I see fuck all from my left
@@joshmike7598 i can relate to your every word 😁❣️
I can't even look people in the eyes when dreaming. That's how much this shit has ruined me.
Exactly this shit has ruined our lives like we can’t hide our biggest insecurity, just today my friends were making fun of it right in front of my face shit sucks.
@@highinthesk1es fuck them
@@highinthesk1es:( sending love
@@user67777a thank you sending love back ur way 💝
I think we can all agree that lazy eyes are rough, i'm going into my sophomore year of high school and i commonly get comments like "are you mentally all there?" "how do you make your eyes do that?" and let me tell you, that hurts so badly. I have had 2 eye surgeries and i am trying to convince my parents to let me have a 3rd one. Stay strong guys❤️
hey do u mind telling me about how your strabismus surgery went? i want to get it i am 15 and i am just wondering if there is a high chance of double vision or loss..!
@@mykerropi shoot I got 2 surgeries done when I was like 4 and I don’t rlly remember that but currently like 50% of ppl realize I have a lazy eye and not that many ppl care. It doesn’t completely get rid of it but you can control it a lot better. So I definitely recommend it. And vision-wise I got contacts and those help with sight a lot.
Ahh i see okay thank you so much!! Another question, do you know if it's safe? I am just scared about the concept of keeping my eye open while they cut into it.. I haven't got any surgeries when I was little because It is a mild case. My lazy eye doesn't move around much unless i am tired@@lindseywilson6854
Have had amblyopia since 6 years old. Same deal. Told to wear patch but always cheated. Lazy eye a little crossed until about 10yrs old, but straightened out on it's own. The sight in the bad eye of course never got any better. I have to say it did not stop me from doing anything I ever wanted to do. I never realized I didn't have real depth perception but the brain figures it out anyway. I can judge distances better than someone with two good eyes. I needed to at work. Any sports or even flying an airplane were no problem. I'm 63 now and my good eye is still 20/20, the other 20/200. Don't let it get you down. If you have one good eye, be happy you can see at all.
Thanks for the positive words Jack
Thanks sir
My goodness, he seems like he has THEEEEE BEST "bedside manner" when working with patients. 💕 His voice is comforting, reassuring and he made me feel like he knows EXACTLY what he's talking about. That SHOULD be the standard for "professionals" but that isn't always the case. Comfortability with your healthcare provider builds trust and makes the experience so much better.
I had lazy eye surgery when I was 2 years old. They over corrected my eye and I left it that way till I was 39. I just had lazy eye surgery 03/24//21. I would give surgery a try. Medical technology has changes so much since my first surgery and I am happy with my results so far.
Amazing :)
What kind of surgery was it, the recent one?
Great video! I had struggled with lazy eye for decades, and became aware of Vision Therapy a few years ago. I now train my eyes daily, and even went so far as to start my own Vision Therapy channel so I could help others with amblyopia and/or strabismus.
There is lots you can do, and the sooner you get started, the sooner it can be rectified!
Hey at what age would this therapy work?
@@getintoits2786 Hi, there is no age limit for VT. Although, our brain begins to lose plasticity - the ability to rewire - as we age.
@@seein3d456 do u think it will still be effective if a 17YR old fit?
@@seein3d456 *it?
Can i get my vission back in my left eye ...i can see everything clearly with the right eye... But i can't see with left eye
Wellness, all. My right eye is lazy and i started correction with eye patch and eye drops at 2 year's old. 8 year's old glass and at 15 years old corrective surgery with glass currently. And just know theirs someone out there that loves everything about you including your special outstanding self💚
When I remember having a lazy eye, I want to cry, I don't know how long I will go astray. It seems like there is no hope💔
I had no idea there was actually hope haha
Bruh there are surgeries that completely fix it
@RISHI JADEJA really??
When I was in mexico, they told me that surgery was my only option. In that moment my eye went the opposite way of the other, but now people have to look at me directly at the eyes to notice, without the surgery. I don't know how
@RISHI JADEJA yeah ok tqsm
@RISHI JADEJA haa ok
Got diagnosed with strabismic/anisometropic amblyopia at 4, went through patching, and VT along with a hefty Glasses Rx. I’m now 25 with a BCVA of 20/40 In the right eye. Just glad to have had a great optometrist growing up. It was her love of the profession that made me want to go to Optometry school. Sure the lack of stereo makes it challenging but wouldn’t be here if not for that experience. Its been awesome to learn more about amblyopia and the things we can do to help.
Can you drive a car?
What was your vision prior to treatment?
My daughter at the age of 3 has lazy eyes. I'm worried but Iam glad I found this video.
My son is 2 and has it in the right eye so the doctor is starting him off with drops 3 times a week because we know he’s not going to wear the eye patch, then he’ll be seen again in 2 months... Good luck hun🙏🏾
KIKI make sure you make your son wear the patches even if he doesn’t want to
Patching works very well, At a young age, I had lazy eye, and got it treated, wore eyepatch while playing video games, Now i'm 18 and you can't even tell i had a lazy eye in the first place! Still can't see completely properly out of it, but it's a whole heck of a lot better then it used to be.
@@shakiafloyd please treat them fix their lazy eyes it's really affects the life of child 🥺
@@darksoul9432 he’s being treated for it with eye drops every other day in the left eye to strengthen the right eye and in January he’ll be fitted for glasses, he’s not severe. Thanks for your concern🙏🏾
To all of you struggling with hating your lazy eye: when j was younger I hated my lazy eye as well. I wouldn't ever cry about it, but I would get really upset and depressed that people made fun of my eye. After a while, I learned to laugh about it instead of hating it and it made it fun when people asked about it or laughed at it. I hope you all can start to see your eye in a positive light!
I pretend to laugh at it and make fun of it, but secretly I feel horrible when people talk about it. I just do it so we move on quicker.
It was so much fun having my parents just give up and allow my siblings to bully me and join in occasionally!
Lol yes, it's part of me and even though people can be horrible sometimes or ignorant of how their questions/remarks might make you feel , I've learned to accept my lazy eye and it's unique to me😎
And no one deserves to make me feel miserable about something I was born with
I hate it when i go to doctor and doctor just says: there’s no more hope and at the way back I’m all crying and my parents blame me.
aw how you doing now dear?
My exact experience :(
I would like to thank you because you have helped me to alleviate horrible suffering. I have suffered with dry eyes for years and Blepharitis flare ups. No single physician advised me as well as your videos have. I have been suffering horribly but your advice has changed my life!!! Thank you thank you thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Honestly I went through so much nullshit in my life that I couldn’t worry about lazy eye. Bro it sucks.it feels like I can’t talk to anyone
It does suck, especially when you have other lousy stuff happening. There's options for some strabismus issues if you have insurance.
Hope you find treatments, esp surgery effective.
Until then wearing sunglasses most of the time helps others not play the prejudice cards.
me too, it really killed my confidence
@@rcayers1700 i am from romania and in my country you cant correct this so i wil die shit
Mine didn’t get corrected with a surgery too.
Haha this is so interesting bcus I realized majority of us in the comment section (myself included) are a bunch of people with lazy eyes and I find that hilarious for some reason
Online classes are causing me this problem.
You made me smile
Lol
Thanks you made my day
It seems most of us have been bullied for it as well! Honestly find it so terrifying if I get into a fight cause I know I won't be able to defend myself.
I become introverted just because of those eyes. most important I lost confidence while talking to people. i can't directly look at other people eyes. :) it's really sad when people say are you looking at me? 😇
Mee to bruh😕🙂
it's hard, it's so hard being like this...i can't have a boyfriend...i can't talk to people properly... and i'm scared of bullying like "who you looking at"? I just want to go to the fucking hospital and get anither eye like why did they make me like this bro i'm crying everyday just why
My lazy eye was corrected when I was a kid (patches, glasses, exercises, all that jazz), but it's not gone completely. There are moments sometimes, not very often, when my right eye needs to "catch up" with my left one and sometimes people notice it, especially those who spend more time with me. I had a few "boyfriends" in the past but at some point I get a feeling that they stay around because they feel sorry for me or something, maybe when they notice my lazy eye. People will just see the lazy eye, not the person or the personality. I guess it could bother me if I let it, but I just don't care. If anyone makes a stupid remark, just tell the person off and make them feel like they are total jerks. Ask them, what if your kid is born this way, will they laugh too? Don't let this thing overpower you, really, these people are not worth it. And do the exercises, they do help, no matter the age.
Same, I also don't have girlfriend because of that 😢
Same it’s so hard when ever I meet someone online and I have to tell them that I have a lazy eye because I don’t want them to make fun of me when we meet in person haha, most of the time they end up ghosting me or straight up telling me that they can’t take someone with a lazy eye serious, I just wish i could rip my eyes off and get a new pair lol
@@ferby111__6 you can add me. I have lazy eye too. So I can't make fun of you .
@@ferby111__6 if you want to get rid of this problem then you can have a Surgery. Which will solve your problem.(in my country that surgery only cost around 300$)
Yes, my son under went the patching treatment for his lazy eye. The video is much useful. Thank you 🙏
I have a lazy eye. I've worn glasses for 8 years and if I take my glasses off it just turns back in
im the same
Try contacts?
same, however I'm 15 and I have a contact lens for my lazy eye that I can plop in whenever I feel like it. Would recommend this to anyone with a lazy eye.
I can fell my left eye wander off everytime im on computer, daydreamin or sleeping
Im tired people judging me when we first met, i only wish they could stop asking
I know it sucks you can’t make eye contact with nobody
Omg, i relate to u so much. Sometimes idk if my left eye is straight or not and i became very self conscious of my eyes especially when i was being recorded or photographed without me looking at my own reflection
@@bruhdangit8362 same bro ... It sucks 😩
Idk will I ever be normal again 🥺
I am born with strabismus and I don’t care because I love and appreciate my self. I don’t want to do surgery because that’s how I am created. The most important thing is to love yourself for who u re and do the things that you love and will benefit you later in the future ❤️ people sometimes tell me about it. I always response to them that “I know right and I love it, I love the way I am, at least am better than the blind, people with no legs or hands you know” For all those that have lazy eye. Don’t worry my dear, you are great. You have many skills that many without lazy eye have. Be great full and appreciate yourself if you wanna live happily❤️ I love ya all ❤️ mwah 💋
I'm happy for you but for me I just can't get over it, I'm 32 now but my self confident is very low when I think about it or seeing people looking at me
@@mduduziqwabe7136 exactly the same here I am 32 like you and can not look at the people eyes ! And we can not never ever feel what is to see in 3D stereoscopic, this sucks, becouse our distance judgment is very poor :( plus I have very bad vision as well
@@mduduziqwabe7136 Have you tried glasses with a prism? Worked for me
I feel uncomfortable for my lazy eyes all the time.but my parents tell me it's not a matter.just try to be successful in life.
I can't see well with my eyes.so I use glasses.
I am 87 years old and have just been told I have one lazy eye. Thank you dear parents for taking me to an ear, nose, throat doctor time after time and my tonsils peeled numerous times.
Perfect timing. Just what i need.
Awesome!
cool
Am I the only one who's having a hard time falling asleep because of my lazy eye? 🥺 I mean I can control my eyes right when I'm awake but my eyes are not even when closing or asleep...
Regular UA-camr I am too
When I am sleepy my eye gets lazier
I never had problems falling asleep tho
I have been to five different doctors for my daughter strabismus. A few did nothing, one over treated. We will see how this new doctor works out 🤞🏾
At the age of 30 I had an operation from a child surgeon to correct my lazy eye in Los Angeles, so far so good and I am now 59.. so there is help
@@inmythoughts718 I’m so scared of surgery 😬
Hang in there guys. I had an accident in my left eye when I was really young. Partially blind in my left eye which led me to develop a lazy droopy left eye. Wearing glasses helps but I get comments till this day. It hurts less over time and you learn to live with it. I’m hoping these exercises help. Great video!
Hi i am 13 yearsand my right eye is lazy eye and i wear spectacles too and sometimes eye patch too so should I be worried, i visited doctor too but my left is working good 🧿 should i be worried
Honestly I just feel like I need to post this here growing up I feel like everyone in this comment section can relate, having a lazy eye produces my confidence to literally nothing I can't look at anyone in the eyes I'm always looking down I can remember countless times in class or even my teachers with joke about it it has literally been my only thing I can't change people at school picking on me for it and my parents it's the one thing I wish I could just change, I've had surgeries and I patched it for about 4 years got the eye drops, and nothing has happened it's just gotten progressively worse over the years
Thank you so much for sharing. I know you are not a lone and yes, having an eye turn can significantly impact people. But believe me, your worth has never been based on your eyes or how you look.
@@DoctorEyeHealth i can activate my double vision and deactivate it
I could do this since when i was a child then is no change in sevral years in my eyes
@@DoctorEyeHealth I appreciate the supoort man and I know my worth doesnt come from my eye but honestly as a man I can admit it bothers me
I had the same problem I can’t even look at people I feel so bad with myself I don’t know what to do I’m just tired of everything
if you cant fix it, embrace it 😁
embrace that and dont let it touch u.
You can cover up that insecurity with getting fit body, reading books, getting some completely new skills, literally, just grow in every aspect of your life... and when you get older the "lazy eye" will be just a word from your younger days. Just dont stress it out so much, embrace it. Its simpler but not easier i know,but far from impossible
I was born with amblyopia in my left eye and was detected at around age 7 and was given an eye patch but being a little kid I would take it off 😅 But my eyeball moves normally, I don’t have the typical lazy eye look some people have. I am 32 now and I have gotten used to the low vision in my left eye. I’m thankful for the good eye I have.
What is the cause of this lazy eye,
When i was 8 year my eyes is absolutely perfect but now i have this problem,
I have also suffering from this problem plz also tell me the cause of this problem if you have knowledge about it
Happened to me because of watching so much Netflix off my phone, my eyes got stuck crossed, I found that looking at a distance starts to fix it
@AAAnt M in my opinion if the person is fat,his eye will look less squint and if he do masterbation then he will be thinner(due to lack of some vitamins) and his eye will look more squint.
Pretty sure it happens if you look at your phone too much. I have it aswell and yeah it sucks
@Деки спасябки, мои казахо-почти несуществующие глаза додумались каким то способом быть лези айзом(звучит как имя какого нибудь персонажа из друзей)
Not me at 26 years old crying at 1am because i want to be normal
Meeeeeeee but I'm 15
Same !!
I’m the same age with the same feelings 😩
29. The pain only continues :(
I'm crying 😭😭. Same!
I thought I was the only one with this as a kid I’m happy to see a lot of people that I can relate with
I was made to wear an eye patch when I was really young. It seemed to have worked. I was real self conscious with the tan patch and people staring. They gave me the black "pirate patch" and people didn't stare as much. Back in the early 1970's. I like your channel.
Dr, I remember having been treated as a teenager, by patching my better eye. And some years ago at 70 again with some exercises at the eye clinic, looking at a red light, fixing my both eyes on it. It worked very well.
Syntonic phototherapy?
Did you suffering from amblyopia?
Fellow eye doc over here! I must say your educational videos are so thoughtfully presented for our patients. So many great topics patients have a hard time researching! Thank you for providing this wonderful information to the public. Any upcoming videos talking about more developmental eye teaming and tracking disorders? I.e. Strabismus, CE, CI, accommodative insufficiency etc? Love your channel! Definitely sharing with my patients
I have spent the last 18 years of my life being constantly self conscious of a condition that is extremely more common than I have ever known. I am currently using an eye patch to try and treat it naturally. Thank you so much for this upload!
Me too i just thought its not very common, I'm getting surgery for the first time in 3 months
@@iamkhaleesi9103 Thats amazing! I hope everything goes well for you.
Did they work? Do I still have a chance if I go back to the doctor? Cause I'm 13 and my mom tried to make me to wear patches when I was 4-7, but I would always take them off when she wasn't looking.
I regret it now whenever I think about it, But I dont want to get surgery at 18 unless nothing else worked. And my vision in my lazy eye is so bad that I cant even read anything because the words go invisible or I cant focus. I really want to join the army so I need 20/20 vision in good eye and ATLEAST 20/70 in the lazy WITH correction glasses.
I have lazy eye too.....
I'm 11 years old... ..I hate wearing patch..reading all the comments of people like me relieve my stress...it was diagnosed month ago.....I wear a bandage patch......I'm using my moms phone........this video helped me to understand my eye condition
Thanks for all the support everyone
This gives me so much hope. I never realized just how much my lazy eye affected my daily life like constantly bumping into things and people or not seeing the next stair step an falling. I even had an EX give a reason for wanting to break up with me because I was "too clumsy." My doctor was very much lazy and gave the excuse that " I had good control" over my lazy, so there was never any attempt to correct it. It has just gotten worse with age. Looking forward to the day that I'll be free~
Huh just hold on I have the same experience just try to get a surgery that what they adviced me .just by sharing this you've made my day
When I was four years old (I'm 63 now) I had surgery to correct my amblyopia. Dr Bejamin Sachs, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. I believe my eyesight is fine although I don't have anything to compare it to. I do have some interesting behavior because of it. When I get very tired my eye (right eye) drifts out. I have to consciously aim both eyes forward. When I drive, left eye is on the road, right eye is in the rear view mirror. When I force my right eye forward I feel like I'm in a tunnel and it's not comfortable. I wear reading glasses or bifocals when I need good distance sight. I tried progressives and had a tough time adjusting to them. I work with computers a lot and have a hard time going from close to screen to distance. I maxed out my non-prescription reading glasses at 3.5. The sight in my right eye is much worse than my left and I cover my left at times to hopefully make it stronger. Most of the time I don't even think about it but that's my story.
You likely see two pictures. If/when you get drunk, you'll see quad-vision instead of double vision. What a trip that will be!
Yes I've been treated lol, 14 yrs old now, did all those nothing changed much but 10 - now it improved a lot by itself. I wore glasses tho on and off.
I'm just grateful to God that both my eyes are functional and well and I don't struggle much ( besides people asking are you talking to me?😂).🙏🏽
“Who Yu looking at” 😂🤣 mf hit me with that every time.
I’ve had lazy eyes as long as I can remember, I probably saw countless specialists to have it fixed. couple of years ago I was told that I have congenital glaucoma did multiple tests but still hasn’t been confirmed 🤔
I totally get not being able see some one straight in the face and I always walk with my head down, that messed up my posture 😅
Sorry to hear about all of that. I hope everything ends up OK with the glaucoma suspicion. Does your eye turn then? Does it go out or in?
Doctor Eye Health thanks so much doctor I hope so too. Yes it does, it goes out. When I’ look in the mirror it looks perfectly straight to me.
Amblyopia, astigmatism right eye, strabismus both eyes. Left handed, ADHD, a surprasellar meningioma from age 28, a trigeminal meningioma resection in 2019. Lots of head trauma from a young age. You get what you get.
After watching videos about amblyopia, I just realized, just- just now that I have amblyopia. Like omg, I was living for 13 years and 11 months plus going to an ophthalmologist but no one ever told me that I have amblyopia! Thank you so much to the videos of Doctor Eye Health! Your videos helped me a lot. Btw, I'm a nearsighted. -14 on the left, -16 on the right. Hope that our eyes will get well soon!
Hi! how long it tooks you to fix that ?
I have lazy eye problem, i don't get confidence in eye to eye contact communication 😞😞
“What are you looking at” “you look like a chameleon” “bro Im right here”
i feel you man ✊
I was diagnosed with Refractive Amblyopia at the age of 25. I always had poor vision on my right eye, but I had no idea it was a problem, because when I had both my eyes opened, I would see just fine, even very small text. During my second year of university, I started to notice that my vision altered a bit, and then after a while I went to a doctor for a check. They said that I didn't have binocular sight at all and that's why my healthy eye started to develop astigmatism for being overly used. So they had me wear a pair of glasses in order for the brain to catch the image from my right eye as well. In time, after another check, they said that my binocular sight is starting to develop, and now, unfortunately, with both eyes opened i see the focused image of my healthy eye and also some blurred duplicates from my right eye. What the doctors are unable to explain is why if i place an object really close to my eye, right below the line of sight and the thing i'm looking at, I see it perfectly, no duplicates.
Hi sir I need your help I am 16 I want to know about it
😮 same story when objects are close I see perfectly fine with both eyes but when objects are far I see better with right eye not left eye
I, at 54, was just diagnosed with a lazy eye! And my eye doctor said simply "At your age, it can't be fixed" and says it's why we can't get the exact correct Rx for my glasses. It took me 3 weeks before I questioned the doctor's statement. If you haven't already, you should do a video about how to tell the difference between a good eye doctor and a bad one!
As a child, I got teased by wearing an eye patch and ditched it.
Now an adult. I was prescribed glasses to manage astignmatism and amblyopia/ strabismus on my left eye, the weaker eye, getting a higher power:
OD -100
OS -150
With these glasses, my eye have always been in sync.
I might want to check with my eye doctor if I may get contact lenses as an alternative.
P.S.
Another alternative that was considered was a botox injection to the eye muscles (something like that), but was told that the effect diminishes after about 6 months, and had to be redone.
Surgery is another, aside from complications, over correction is always a possibility.
I will love to see a video with exercises for strabismus! By the way this video was great, thank you!
I have a video about eye exercises planned! Thank you for watching! glad you liked it.
@@DoctorEyeHealth thank you!
I treated my eyes by myself. I have started first with pencil exercise. Then i start using the eye patches and from the first day I was able to control my eyes and make them look together at the same direction. Eyes patches help you to feel inside your eyes and make them look straight together. Other very helpful thing that try to look from the middle, I mean not from the right or the Left so you can draw long Imaginary line starts from your noise and that will give you a very good hint about how to control your eyes. other thing you can look at some point and make sure that your eyes look at the same point by switching between both. After I did all these exercises I am totally able to feel inside my eyes and control them. You can look at some eye digram and learn more about its inside parts so that will help a lot to realize how you are supposed to deal with it.
How many days it took to be perfect
@@nibharai1908 as soon as you learn how to treat your eyes, so if you use the batches to close the good eye and use the lazy, it will not take that long, just close the good eye for couple of hours during the day and it will be the best if it's at the morning but don't keep the good eye closed using the batches for long because that will hurt your good eye if keep it closed for long. Not More than two hours a day, after 30 days, you will hopefully have big improvements but just keep working on them and don't give up at all and good luck but at the same time I am not a doctor and I am just sharing what I have experienced
@@Peac2938 ohhh thanks I am using patch from 3 day for more than 11 hour daily I will use only 2 hour thanks
@@nibharai1908 how is your eye exercise going?
@@Peac2938 do I have to use it in da morning or can I use it thought the day
Hey doctor my eyes are straight most of the time but sometimes when I look at my phone or screen it my left eye moves to the left and when I cover that eye
Zethic999 I LITERALLY HAVE THE SAME THING I’m trying to figure out what it is
Let me know if you figure it out man
Clyde Kidder hey I’ll let you know I’m gonna go to an eye doctor soon
I have the same problem. It's a lighter form of lazy eye.
@@Anamaria-in6rj what do you mean by lighter form?
I don’t have a particular serious case by any means. In fact no one’s every noticed and I haven’t even been aware of it myself until recently. I notice that when I focus on something long enough for a period of time my right eye loses focus and drifts. The first time I noticed this was when I was simply doing my hair in the mirror. I’m able to reverb instantly but it is quite annoying as it also tends to give me a bit of a headache/ migraine when it occurs more than once in the day.
I’m 18 and have had 2 surgeries to fix my lazy eye. But it just comes back, will consider therapy now that I’m trying to join the military and this is stopping me from doing so
Its so weird. I can feel when my eye is being mischievous. My doctor says it comes back when my eyes get tired so I'm wearing glasses all the time now. But instead of seeing when my eye goes wandering, I just feel it. Doing some tests at home and I feel like my brain is now just ignoring all input from my lazy eye. In your last video about this you mentioned how you can have a dominant eye... I can pick and choose what eye I'm looking out of. I'm ambidextrous with my eyes. Its.... Interesting.
I had it when I was very young. Went through everything, Started with glasses, Moved to a patch as well as exercises. (The patch was a lot cooler as a kid). It was all unsuccessful. I moved onto surgery when I was about 8 or 9. I was told It could return in my late teens. Sure enough, I started seeing and feeling symptoms again. Now I'm in my 20's and still getting worse... The patch is coming again...
Hey! After recovering from Covid I've suddenly been feeling my eyes aren't normal. Whenever I wake up in the morning it is difficult to align them. After sometime they become fine but I can choose which eye to keep straight and which eye to move outwards. I consulted a doctor but he said to give it 2-3 months and it's due to the covid virus my muscles have weakned. Is it so? Or is this the same thing happening to you too?
My eye started to turn in for the first time just this past summer. I was told it was lazy eye but I don’t really have any significant eye sight problems in my other eye.
My eye started this month and i don't even know why
I feel like my lazy eye is acute, but its been a serious point of insecurity my whole life. I'm relatively lucky though, because as long as i'm actively remembering to use my left eye muscle more i can keep it straight with my right one. Theres people that have known me for years and dont even know i have it unless i tell them or if they catch me having to keep up with fast movements.
I had three eye surgeries when I was 3 years old 4 years old and 5 years old. None of them worked. And thirteen or fourteen years old I was introduced to eye exercises, anything to help quite a bit but I stopped doing them and eventually got cross-eyed again. People are always wondering who you're looking at when you talk to them, you know when they turn their head and look behind them. Good side to it is that you can look at two different people or whatever at the same time.
I'm grateful for this video. I'm hoping this works. I didn't have lazy eye from birth. It developed gradually over time, and because I am quite insecure. I ask God to make this work.
Do any changes occur in the eyes from exercising?
I started as a kid with the patch and have worn glasses since I've been 2. Drops were tried and tried pretty much everything under the sun. It wasn't as noticeable when I was wearing glasses, but became very noticeable once I started wearing contact lenses. I had two surgeries for my lazy eye (most recent was 15 years ago). It's mostly unnoticeable now unless I look up really high. I've declined a third surgery because it doesn't bother me that much and I have problems coming out of surgeries in general.
I dunno if i have a lazy eye but later in my 20's i started having any of my eyes moving outward from time to time, mainly when am tired. Now in my late 30's it's gotten worse i would say. I can view straight but sometimes wihtout realising any one of my eyes would just move outward and mainly when am really sleepy and tired. Trying to keep them straight causes some eye strain sometimes.. Any advice on this?
The same was with me but at bhirt so i had strabismus exotrophia and later my eye sight got weak when i was 10
yeah this just started happening to me & my eyes would start to kinda burn, almost like you’re trying to have staring contest w someone. My glasses aren’t helping & my vision & lazy eyes is getting progressively worse. Keep me in your prayer! God bless! ❤️
Same thing with me started I’m my mid twenties and happens when I’m tired 😔
Literally typing this and watching this with a lazy eye
I’m 21.. at 6 I was diagnosed with a lazy eye, at 9 I had to have a lens transplant surgery, and things did get better for me.. I gave my parents such a hard time but I’m glad they made that decision to help my eye, HOWEVER i I still have problems with it.. still wear glasses and sometimes I patch with my little sister who also has a lazy eye and maybe she’ll get the surgery too cause it’s as bad as mine..
idk it’s such a hard thing to live with and I relate so much with the comments.. hopefully we all try harder and heal even when it’s difficult.
Born with strabismus. After two surgeries as a toddler, I now have amblyopia in my left eye. I did the standard glasses and patching up to around 9. No significant improvements. This was in the 80s. My left eye is definitely suppressed. I can see, but I can't focus in on anything. I've been kept out of certain careers (aviation) that require stereoscopic vision, but I've managed.
could you post a tutorial video on how to move the eyes like this 0:03 and this 5:12
please !!
Sure! I will maybe make a quick one and post it on my FB page.
@@DoctorEyeHealth that would be fantastic 🤩
@@pennydrake5585 i think its fine for fun and entertainment purposes as long as one's not overly doing it for a long period of time, but yeah, that's my opinion
Penny Drake what are you talking about? You can’t become amblyopic from crossing your eyes… amblyopia is a lazy eye as a result from different prescriptions greater value than 3 diopters (A.k.a. a varying image size of more than 5%, which causes the brain to not be able to fuse the images together) The eyes looking towards your nose is a normal muscular movement it commonly happens while looking at near objects it’s called convergence.
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I’m so scared about my eyes !! Last time I went to check my eyes I was so scared ! I started crying!!
I was diagnose with amblyopia when i was 4 , aftr tht doctor advised me patching i started it i was in school tht time kids of my age started making fun of me they use to bully me every single day i decided not to wear the patch anymore , since then i was just wearing glasses now i am married nw i am a father of one i usually suffer frm severe headache todayy i just came across to doctor he says that i 've lost my left eye eventually i would'nt be able to see light everything will be completely blank..., i am nw helpless .. jst sharing a hard life moment with you guys that bullying can ruin someone's life like mine so
Very Very sorry to hear that happened to you. I was bullied throughout my childhood as well.
I’m 16 now and I feel the exact same. I never wanted to wear my patch as a kid because I didn’t want to get bullied.because of this I rarely wore it and I regret it. I just now started researching and I just want to try and find a way to cure it. Vision is clear on the lazy eye but I can barely read and focus on things. Surprisingly I tried playing some video games though and I did pretty good. I just really want to know there’s hope to fix it. Sorry for what you have. Hopefully in the future they find some way to fix it.
@@DoctorEyeHealth I wish if the alternative of the patch was available for me (the drops), no one pays attention or bothers .
I had a major eye sport injury. I had to undergo 2 surgeries in the left cause I experienced complete loss of sight. Initially after the surgery was done my eyes seemed normal. After a year i developed a lazy eye or extropia towards the left. Though my eye seems normal, my left eye starts drifting towards the left mostly when im stressed,lack of sleep, or when im staring at someone or something. I feel extremely concious looking into someones eye. Even at serious conversations i tend to distract my eye at times into looking at something else so that my left eye aligns. At times people may feel im not interested or im beind disrespectful to their conversation by looking away. Hope it gets better
Genuinely did it pretty consistently "wear an eye patch" never did get better wish i knew about the eye training that would have been useful 14 years ago
I can relate so much to the comment section its such a hard time having lazy eye. Im 17 now and I didnt had like any girlfriend like ever, I dont consider myself ugly but I think that 90% is because of that like it hits me so hard when in elementary school my friends would say to some really not so pretty girl that I want to go to prom to her (which I didnt) and she looked me in the face dead serious and told me "sorry I dont wanna go because of the eye" like that was the moment when my confidence went like unerground and like for any reason a girl rejects me it is like ur a good friend or that some kind of shit and I think that they didnt wanted to offend me bcs of the eye. all in all tough times :/
Its okay buddy, opinions by the end of the day, gotta learn to not give a shit and be yourself cause this life is more than just your body, achieve things and make a good future for yourself with people who love you for just you, let your personality shine
When I'm looking at something I feel like my left eye is going outwards, but I don't see a difference in vision. When I check my eyes on a mirror I feel like they're not normal anymore. I need an answer pls help.
brruhyan hey did you find anything about it? i’m feeling the same!
@@aakash4123 me too
Ash kinda what?
@@aakash4123 when I look into objects especially sharp my left eye is attracted to it and cause pain. Do you feel any pain??
Ash nah bro i don’t feel any pain neither do i feel any stress, depth preception issue, or any kind of vision problem ( but i do have high myopia), just the thing is that when i look sidewards, my right eye drifts way too much right, and i feel it looks kinda weird, but so far i don’t have any vision issues so i wonder if i have any problem like strabismus or exotropia or is it all just in my head, cuz whenever i look sidewards, it looks like i have a crossed eye or strabismus. What do u think?
I also have a similar condition. I've learned how to move my eye into the position it suppose to be in but i have no focus in both eyes now and i might be legally blind.
28f here. Born with crossed eyes & blind. Had surgery at 2 to fix that. Now have near 20/20 vision in my right eye but 20/200 in my left. My left eye does turn out now when I'm tired or I take certain medications, one of which I have to take daily. It's extremely embarrassing & is my biggest insecurity.
When I was 8 my parents took me back to the eye doctor. I had been cheating on my eye exams at school so they thought my vision was fine. One day I held my hand in front of my right eye & said to my brother "I can see through my hand" & my parents realized something was wrong cause I sincerely thought I could somehow.
Eye doctor was the same person who did my surgery & I had to wear an eye patch for a year. Unfortunately I always peeked out of it. It did no good in the long run. Now I'm stuck with this ugly eye. The vision isn't really a big issue for me. I can see well enough to pass an eye exam for driving & it's not a huge issue in my daily life. My eye turning out IS a big issue. I wish there was a way to fix it but since it's only when I'm on these meds I know there's no fixing it.
I had my first child 8 years ago & he wears glasses because he has anisometropia. Doctor is hoping that his vision can be repaired so he doesn't end up with the same issue as me. I hope so too.
Thank You for this informative video.
I was just told a couple days ago that my 1 year old has amblyopia and I was very concerned. My 5 year old had strabismus surgery a couple months ago and to think that now my daughter is also struggling with her visions is scary. Thank you for this video. Gave me a little piece of mind that she can recover from this with her new glasses 🤞 .
All this time I thought I was alone in the lazy eye issue. Actually a lot of people are having the same problem as me.
True! Hope you are doing well.
Good info! Thank you, Doctor Joey Allen!
:-) happy to help!
Hello im having difficulty in my left eye. I can consciously move my left eye outward while maintaning my right eye to focus.
I've had lazy eye since I was a kid and whenever I get really tired it really goes more to the right and I get self-conscious about going and talking to people
I’m an adult 38 tried eye therapy at 33 didn’t work. Had surgery 6 days ago and doble visión is gone, I now have depth perception and 3D vision. I recommend surgery if your an adult
a few days ago, i realized that my left eye draws in when i look straight and anywhere else and sometimes when i look at something too long it starts hurting. also when i realized this sometimes when i get up too fast i kind of loose balance and fall out. i don’t know if this has something to do with my eye or just my regular health but i do think i need help.
I have a lazy eye and im 15, also a competitive gamer. I always wanted to fix my eye but I don't even think its possible anymore my vision is not even that bad its just the eye wanders off by itself.
Same here
Is the treatment working in 15 years?
I am 19 years old and I was first treated for amblyopia and very slight outward strabismus when I was 5 or 6 years old. I never noticed a problem with my sight until a physical and the doctor told me to look at the sight board and I couldn't read the biggest letter with my left eye. After a visit to optometrist they confirmed I had a lazy eye after that I started using patches for 4 hours everyday and started wearing glasses. I knew that wearing the patch was working but after a while of wearing everyday I grew so tired and annoyed of it. Putting on Vaseline on my eyebrow every time, pealing off one with really strong adhesive hurt, and new people seeing me wear it and asking my mom "what happened" thinking i was injured. The most memorable time was at the store, a younger kid than me went out of his way to go almost in front of me to see the eyepatch, even though i wasn't able to read letters clear, I clearly saw his face. I was never too embarrassed after spending so much time wearing, but eventually it became a hassle. I might forget one day to put it on or for not long enough so the next day i would put in on for longer (I don't know if we were supposed to do that). Eventually i forgot to put on often enough that i just stop, knowing that it will leave permanent results. I have wore glasses ever since.
Patching when i was young in my case did greatly build clarity in my left eye, though i am clearly right dominant, my peripheral vision is great. When looking only through my left i cannot see small details clearly i can at least tell when ball if flying towards me with or without my glasses.
I am just now trying on contacts for practical reasons, masks and glasses don't mix, but i wish i was mature enough back then to realize it was what was best for me regardless how many people asked or how annoying patching was. I don't have 2020 vision but I'm glad that i can see what i can.
I have lazy eye in my right eye, and even though it's very hard to notice nowadays, I'm still frustrated that I just can't read easily using that eye. It doesn't even look blurry to me anymore, I just can't focus on the letters for some reason.
That being said, it is far better than having my right eye drift off outwards and wearing glasses that I got teased for wearing.
Same goes for me. I do see things blurred but most of the times when I try reading letters I fail to focus on them. It's an amalgamation of blurred vision + inability to focus on letters....