strabismus surgery

[lega]

how many surgeries can you have to correct strabismus?  

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

Your surgical results indicate you have poor "fusion" so that your eyes are like a boat without a rudder.

Yes every time anyone has a surgical procedure there is a small risk that it make the condition worse.

I would suggest you see a second pediatric/strabismus eye MD.

Further surgery will have lower and lower success rates.  Your eyes can never be made perfect.

JCH MD

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

Most cases require one or two. I have had patients have up to six or seven eye muscle procedures.

JCH MD

[lega]

I had one at age 3. No trouble with it for 40 years. Then my eye started turning out a little and and the pulling was uncomfortable. I went to a pediatric ophthalmologist and he did 2 surgeries in a 3 month period. He told me he thought he could fix my eye. After the first one he did, my eye was turning in and the vertical was off.  Then he did the next one and the vertical is better but still off some and the eye is now pulling out again. Sometimes my eyes will look straight and at other times it will pull. Certain directions that I look in you can tell that my eyes are not straight. Now my eyelip droops some. I just went back for an appointment and he said he could operate again but didn't advise it right now because he didn't think he could stop my eye from wandering some.  I wish I had never had this done.  Now I am afaird to have any more surgeries because the outcome may be worse than the last 2.  My eye was not that bad and with each procedure it has gotten worse.  Has this ever happened to any of your patients?