Would SURGERY Solve the Problem?

Question

My eye doctor is recommending me to take surgery in the future because right now I am cross eyed. I have a lazy eye on my right. Whenever I look straight, the right eye would go to the left. What would happen after the surgery? Well I still look straight? Should I take it?

Answer 1

ohh... yeah! you must do it as soon as you can.  doctors knows what's best for you.  my neigboor used to have cross eyed {she was 1 year old then she had a surgery. now she is 2 years old} before her surgery i though it won't work. after her surgery her eyes looks like normal  and can't noticed that she had gone trough an operation. it is pretty much safe and effective. do it now and have a great eyes after your operation.

Answer 2

Well when I was 7 I had the surgery..Im now 22 My right eye went -in- when I was tired or read to much...I never wore my glasses. It kinda fixed my eye but to me it never looked prefect but I was told it never would. Now Im 22 and my eye w/o contacts in drifts -out- so I would reccomend it but try contacts 1st if you havent already. It has helped my eye stay straight BIG time..you really cant fix the vison problem but it does stay straight! good luck!

Answer 3

When you have an esotropia and a secondary amblyopia, that eye does not 'see' when you are looking straight ahead. If it did, you'd have double vision and it would be hard to tolerate. So your brain says to ignore that eye...for good reason.

When surgery is done, two muscles on one eye are removed, the eye is straightened a bit past center line, and one eye is reattached back further than it was...recessed, and the other is reattached leaving extra muscle which is resected. This is the R&R surgery.

That eye HAS to be placed PAST midline, as if it doesn't, the blind area, the supression scotoma will still be forwards and the eye will drift back inwards in time. But it is past midline, that scotoma is far enough to the side so that the sensory retina that will correspond to the areas of the other retina, and you can develope enough retinal correspondence to 'keep' the eyes straight.

The ortoptics or eye exercises that the optometrist spoke about are then very useful in helping maintain that binocular fixation.

Vision therapies as a whole only work when there's a problem like this or a weak muscle for some 'reason' such as MS, diabetic neuropathy, thryoid dysfunction...etc.  But when they work, they usually work well. For 'normal' folks, it's sort of a way to spend $ with little or no benefit.  But you aren't 'normal' so after the surgery, do the exercises as directed, it'll help.

Answer 4

Hello!

Well, obviously the ophthalmologist will tell you what kind of surgery you'll need, then, thanks to surgery, are staying very well with your eyes .. But sometimes arise probemas that after years you re-cross, but that's impossible! Do not worry ..

And remember are staying very well with the surgery ...

///////////////////////////////// Crazy Alexis ///////////////////////////////

Answer 5

It really depends. What are you planning on getting out of the surgery?

If you choose to go with the surgery, the effect will only be cosmetic, and is not guaranteed. After the surgery, your eyes will mostly be straight for a few years, but it is almost guaranteed that your eye will turn agin (that happened to me too. I have a lazy eye as well). Also, this will not help your eyes to work together, which is what is causing the lazy eye in the first place.

If you would rather strengthen the muscles in your eye and get your eyes to cooperate, then choose vision therapy. This route is much slower and takes more work on your part, but it will allow you to see out of both eyes at the same time (which you and everyone else with a lazy eye isn't doing). Also, this way your eyes will not go back to being crossed as they were before.

I suggest getting a second opinion. Most opthamologists tend to be biased on one option over the other. I too was recommended surgery, and I did it, but my eye started to turn again 3 years later. I then did vision therapy, and I had great results. My eyes were straight and worked together, but I went through a year of vision exercises, which included headaches and some double vision. Your case may be different than mine, and you may really benefit from surgery. I just really recommend getting a second opinion first!!

And here I am assuming that you have amblyopia (lazy eye). That is where the crossed eye has poorer vision because it has been ignored by the brain. It is not that the muscle is too long in the eye, but a condition of the brain. Even if you don't have amblyopia yet, it will probably develop from the crossed eye, as it generally does.

Hope I helped!

Answer 6

I have heard about this surgery in my anatomy class, my professor says that it can really work, when you have a lazy eye it just means that one of the muscle attached to your eye is a little too long, so they just go in and shorten it. I think after the surgery your eyes should be straight, or at least much better than they were.