Fixing cross eyed or Lazy eye?? w/o surgery???

Question

Hi, i'm 15 and i think my left eye is cross eyed!! I dont know the difference between cross eyed or lazy eye but my left eye pupil kinda goes inwards towards my nose.. You cant really notice it (well i think so bcos none of my friends told me my eyes look wierd) and also i wear glasses so maybe thats y its hard to notice..

But whenever i take pictures of myself looking sideways or something i can see that my left eye pupil is really inwards, towards my nose! Yeah you can notice it in pictures but not really real life...

Is there anything i can do to help make it normal?? WITHOUT surgery im too scared lol

someone told me to put black tape between ur eyes at home but i dont trust them cus it sounds so stupid lol

maybe eye patches?? what can i do to help get better????

Answer 1

Some muscle problems can be treated with patches, or specialized eyeglass prescriptions. Usually the success rate drops significantly as patients age. Best results are achieved when treatment begins before age five.

Your optometrist probably would have noticed any serious problems, but you should ask him/her about it and also ask for a referral to an ophthalmologist who specializes in that area. Advice from your friends probably won't hurt you, but I am 99.9% sure that it will not work. If you are concerned you should ask see your doctor as soon as you can to find out what, if any, problem there is, and what treatment, if any, is available to you.

Answer 2

Talk with your parents and I would suspect that as a child you had Strabismus. . . Lazy Eye.

   This has to be addressed before the age of 7yrs old either with patching of the good eye thereby making the "lazy" eye work harder.  

    There is another method where they use dilating drops in the good eye to make the vision of that eye blurry so that your "lazy" eye work harder.

    Another method is to use a strong lens prescripton to help pull the muscles of the "lazy" eye straight.

    When all of that fails,surgery is done to either shorten or lengthen (whatever the case may be) the muscle of the lazy eye.

    At your age,there isn't anything but cosmetic surgery to straighten the eye.