Will my blurry right eye affect my left eye?

[Azraq]

I had surgery few years ago in my right eye so it becomes blurry. Will this affect my left eye? I'm afraid it does because my left eye is the only reason my "overall" vision is clear and this could stress my left eye a lot. If it really does, will wearing a glasses alone help it?

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

That question is too vague to answer. You would have to furnish more details for me to be able to comment.

[Azraq]

I had surgery (my right eye) when I was 12 (I'm 21 now). It was because hard plastic pieces exploded into it. So my right eye vision after the surgery becomes really blurry. I got my eyes checked at local glasses store this year and the worker said my left eye is getting worse. She said something about my left vision is getting weaker due to the stress of supporting my right eye. I don't know whether to believe her, it could be because she only wanted me to buy their glasses. But since I was like 18, I do get dizzy in class when I'm looking at the whiteboard and also when I'm reading, so I'm afraid if what the worker said to me is true.

I'm wondering what would be the response from medical prof about this matter.

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

First you should be seeing an eye MD ophthalmologist every year to take extremely good care of your remaining good left eye.  Second your good eye will not wear out or get weak because it gets no help from the other eye.  If a person loses an arm the remaining arm does not get weak it gets stronger. same with eyes.   At your age the biggest risk to your good eye is another injury so you should always think eye safety, avoid activities with high incidence of eye injury (welding, grinding, power tools, hammering metal on meta, contact sports, etc. ) If you must do some of these you need to wear industrial eye protection.

[Azraq]

Regarding to my right eye, do I have to wear glasses or not? Sorry for asking too much.

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

If glasses would make your good eye see better certainly. If your good eye doesn't need glasses to see better many ophthalmologists believe you should wear glasses to protect the good eye from inadvertent injury there would be no RX in the glasses and the frames would be solid (not flimsy) and the lens impact resistant plastic.

[Azraq]

Thank you very much

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

You are welcome. Take good care of that eye.