Lazy eye for 30 years.

[Andi68]

I had a very bad squint when I was a child and I use glasses since age 5. I had an operation to get rid of the squint and I can say this was very successfull at age 13. My eyesight is much better now it gradually became better and by the age 20 I only used low dioptries + cylinders. I was happy with my glasses but I always had this lazy eye and the right eye just works when the left is covered. My stereo vision is nowhere.
Since I am in my fourties my strong eye starts to be so tired at the end of the day and I can not read small prints (with my glasses) in the evening. I also have double vision if I try to strain my eyes to read. (only evenings) I went to the optician and I got reading glasses but they make my dizzy if I look up from the text and real hard to use them and change back to my usual glasses. I did not want to try multifocal just yet because during the day I manage.

I was thinking it would be time for me to have a laser surgery on my lazy eye but I am affraid even if it will have better vision my brain will not adapt to the new vision and it will be a vaste of money and procedure.
Would you recomment this step or I must just try to adapt to my reading glasses.....this is so hard!
Thank you for your answer.
Regards,
Andi

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

It all sort of gets back to "real solutions to real problems for real people with realistic expectations.

We all should live in "Real-ville"

JCH MD

[Luvtoski]

Just gotta say Dr. Hagan, that I love your "join the realists of the world" advice, not only for this situation but for my eye situation also.

It is hard to know when to do that though as I am in the process of coming to grips with the fact that sometimes "things happen" and my eyesight, although nowhere near great after surgeries, are going to have to be considered "good enough".

I'm ready to join the realists.  LOL

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

Join the realists of the world and get no line bifocals. You are just beginning your acquaintance with "presbyopia" and it gets nothing but worse.

Lasik not help this problem.

JCHMD