just want others advice! i had surgery yesterday and my doctor told me he’s not concerned with contacts it’s more of a comfort thing for me,but a week out is a good time to start trying to put them in. i’m going to the beach in two weeks and wanna wear them (no i will not be getting in the ocean I think the ocean is gross anyway). How long did everyone wait to put contacts back in?

Thanks!

hello! i’m 10 days post op and everything has gone well and i’m very happy with the results. I had exotropia and had surgery on both eyes. I’m a bit concerned with my right eye though. there’s this clear coat towards the inner corner of my eye and at first I thought it was eye boogers that were being stubborn. I tried to get it with a wet washcloth and wet q tip and it’s still there. anyone have any any similar experiences or know what it may be? thank you!

it’s also very had to pick up on camera but in terms of appearance my inner right eye looks teary but the left doesn’t. it also looks like a huge eye booger but it won’t come off?

I had strabismus surgery done Tuesday and I'm experiencing severe anxiety over thinking that my eye is going back outwards, I've taken pictures and it just seems like it's off to me from the first day of surgery. For those who have had the surgery not work, how soon did you notice?

So I’ve had this problem since I was 16 (I’m 20 now). During sixth form, many people would think that I was staring at them even when I was focused on myself. This problem completely ruined my life, as so many people thought I was a weirdo and certain people would constantly talk about me behind my back. This problem is one of the reasons why I cannot work or be around other people. I finished school in 2022, but since then have barely left the house.

I spoke about this problem with my optician and he said that I have some muscle weakness in my eyes, which is probably why people think I’m staring at them. He didn’t say I have exotropia, but I’m guessing I do since it would explain why everyone thinks I’m staring at them. 

The majority of the time, my eyes look normal when looking in the mirror, but sometimes I do see my eyes shifting slightly. Also, in the past year, I do find my eyes ‘going out of focus’ when I’m using my laptop.

So does anyone else with exotropia have this problem with people thinking that you’re staring at them? Have you been able to treat it by doing vision therapy exercises or getting surgery? I don’t think my exotropia is severe enough to get surgery so in the future I’ll see about getting vision therapy.

I am so tired right now. I have consulted four ophthalmologist at this point and 2/4 say that I can’t pursue dentistry. I feel like my life is crumbling and finally my Disability is coming between me and my ambitions.

A little background about me. I am 18. I have nystagmus and don’t have a null point. My hands also don’t shake. I have myopia (LE: -4.00 and RE: -4.50) vision is 6/12 or 20/40. I also have strabismus extropia. I will be joining dental school this September (in my country we need to clear an entrance test in order to go to medschool or dental school) oh yes and shadowing is not an option it’s not legal here.

I will be contacting the Dean of the dental school that I wish to attend tomorrow stating my concerns. His answer will be the end of me leaving or joining dentistry.

I just wanted to rant. Please help me out. And give your girl some advice. If you are dentist and have nystagmus. Tell me your journey and how well are you able to deal with patients and is it a problem for you preforming tasks like root canal

The ophthalmologist I'm seeing is a person of very few words, so I'm hoping someone who's experienced this can provide any kind of guidance!

I've develeoped esophoria with double vision that's prevented me from driving, feeling comfortable in large spaces or crowds, etc. 

My dr had me try a Fresnel prism sticker (10) for the past month. During my first office visit, my eyes seemed to like 12 the best, but she wanted to start me lower and more conservatively so I don't "eat up" the prism. At my follow-up visit, she tentatively agreed to trying 12.

The 10 worked miraculously for 3 days, then not as well...but I honestly can't tell if it's because of all the obstacles that come with the sticker, like making sure all the air bubbles are perfectly removed and dust trapped on it blurring things. 

When I try the 12 next week, what should I look for? Will I know if they're too strong? Also...should I be concerned about what will happen to my vision if I test them for <1 month but want to go with the lower strength?

The weight of making the right decision feels heavy.

Hi! I have always had fully accommodative esotropia and been in glasses since I was 4. I’m 28 now, just got a new prescription (changed twice in two years), and I feel like my lazy eye is not being fully corrected. Can fully accommodative esotropia turn into partially accommodative esotropia as you age? Or is it more likely that my prescription isn’t correct?

According to my doctor's notes I have right to alternating convergent with right hypertropia.

Asking because I (F30) have had this since I was born, 3 surgeries, no visual therapy, and my squint still likes to make an appearance. It shakes my esteem and confidence, and I'm wondering if there's anything else I can do to improve my situation that is non-surgical.

Thanks in advance.

Had post-op check in yesterday. Cleared to fly and return to work (technically could have sooner, waited for post-op appt. Took a week off work).

Redness is slowly dissipating and stitches are becoming more visible. Weaning off Tylenol, once a day for antibiotic/steroid drops for another week. Using regular preservative free drops a few times a day too.

Still no double vision. Left eye vision is currently 20/30. Was 20/20 before surgery. Right eye is 20/20. Could be swelling. Will monitor. A lot more redness in left eye.

Overall, doing well. Doctor and I are happy with results so far.

I started with the stickers at a measure of 20 and after a week that became too much for me and they lowered it to 10 now. With the sticker on glasses I see single (looking at the phone sometimes I see double). When I take the glasses off vision stays single for some time too at close distance and everything looks sharper than before. Wanted to hear about anyone else’s experience with them. The prism does make my vision blurry but now at 10 it’s not that bad

i’m 14, so i don’t have the money or resources to get surgery myself. my family is well off so this isn’t a money problem but whenever i bring it up it always ends up in me being in tears and them getting mad at me. it usually starts off with me asking my parents if we could talk and i ask them if i can get surgery. then they bring up how there’s lots of people with worse disabilities than mine (they don’t call it a disability). they say that it’s something from inside me that i wanna fix, they tell me that if i get this surgery i’ll get surgery for something else that i think is “wrong” with me. i just wanna be normal, i wanna look into the mirror and feel confident, i wanna be able to look people into the eyes without feeling uncomfortable. My parents don’t have any disabilities so they don’t understand me and i’m probably being ignorant so i wanna know how you guys think of my situation.

Hey there my name is Russell 20M

I recently had surgery for alternating strabismus 3 weeks ago and at first was very happy with the results.

Ive had strabismus since childhood and had surgery's at age 6 and age 20.

about 20 days after the surgery im starting to notice the eye move back inward.I spoke with the hospital who did the surgery and they said it will take up to 3months for it to fully heal.

My question being that is this a bad sign that its already starting to move back in so soon after surgery?

I have read a number of online articles and talked to my doctor however…

Do you think you see better out of glasses or contacts? (Not look better but your vision is better in one or the other)

I have always worn glasses. I tried contacts once 30 years ago but technology has changed so much.

Dear Community,

I have sensory Esotropia and dense amblyopia in my left eye. Approaching my 30th birthday next month, I've yet to undergo any procedures on this eye.

Recently, I explored options to enhance its appearance. Following measurements indicating a 35 BO, treatments such as surgery or botulinum toxin injection were discussed. While the consultant favours surgery for its permanence and suitability for me, my twin brother experienced slight overcorrection after undergoing the surgery for the same conditions.

Considering this, I'm leaning towards starting with botulinum toxin injection to avoid overcorrection.

I'm eager to hear your thoughts and recommendations on whether pursuing surgery later would be advisable.

This is part advice, part research I guess. Do strobe lights/other rapid flashing lights like camera flashes (I mean lots of camera flashes at once) make you feel overwhelmed or even like fainting?

What about sudden quick flashes? Not talking lightning.

Do you find closing either eye fixes the symptoms completely? What do you do in these situations?

Does knowing what’s coming help you? I know it’s best to not be in these situations to begin with.

I had surgery in my right eye to try and fix my alternating esotropia. I had double vision before I had the surgery and was super far apart. I noticed since the surgery 4 days ago that the double vision is a lot closer and I can almost align my eyes to see one if I relax my eyes. That being said when I do focus my eyes my eye still goes inward a little bit making the double worse. Will this slowly get better with the healing? Has anybody had success?

So I noticed a week and a half after my surgery my whole eye is now pink, but before only the side operated on was red. The color is definitely faded since last week but now it’s my whole eye. I did surgery on both eyes and they both have spread out faded color now. I’m wondering if the spreading out of faded color is normal / a sign of healing? I look high now. 😅😅 My doctor said the itching was which is slowly going away thankfully so I’m hoping this is too. Thanks :)

I had strabismus surgery exactly a month ago (on both eyes) and was recovering as expected. However about 1 week ago, my right eye started to hurt and has progressed to debilitating eye pain and I'm not sure why. I was able to function previously but now I'm down for the count. The slightest move of my eye sends searing pain through the top of my eye and I can't do anything but close my eyes and hope for the best

I was planning on returning to work following this corrective surgery but now I am completely disabled and I'm desperate for information. My surgeon dropped me so I can't get any help from her ....

Do anyone know what this pain is? How to treat it? Did I do something wrong to cause this pain? Should I go have someone look at it?

I can't live my normal life with this much pain but I don't know what to do. Can anyone help?

Edit to say thank you all for your responses, I read the reasons which Google churned out for causes of adult onset strabismus, and it was scary. These responses are really oddly comforting. I'm sorry to say that when a couple of responses are awful situations, but thank you all the same.

Our toddler is 2.5 years old and was diagnosed with Accommodative esotropia a little less than a year ago. Her right eye started to turn inward after a concussion when trying to focus on certain things. She was given glasses which seemed to help at first but her right eye is now turning inward, even with the glasses on. We are thinking about giving vision therapy a try but I heard it is very expensive and I'm not sure how I'm going to get my toddler to go through with the exercises. It sounds like we are the ones going to have to do the exercises with her at home due to her young age. Has anyone had any experience with vision therapy at her age?

Just wondering, is anyone else’s strabismus less obvious or gone when looking at selfies & mirrors?

It’s like my eyes automatically align when i’m looking at myself. I didn’t really discover i had it until I was like 10 for this reason.

(I have strabismus + amblyopia)

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I’m genuinely curious as I haven’t seen anything about this online.

Hi there,

I posted here last year about my frustration with my ophthalmologist. My intermittent eye turn issue seems to be worsening with age.

The first time I saw him in 2020 he said I might need surgery because he did see that I was “cross eyed” then recommended a different glasses/contacts prescription.

Last year in 2023, he said he felt my eye had improved despite me saying I felt otherwise. He prescribed me mild prisms in my glasses. When I asked him how long to wear them for he said long term. I told him that I’d prefer not wearing glasses full time and he made it seem like it was the best option and check in a year.

Well it’s been a year. I’m still having an intermittent eye turn. Now I’m also getting double vision when trying to focus and can’t hardly focus when anything quickly appears in my vision. Driving is getting more stressful on top of that. Also, I’m not liking the prism glasses dependency.

How do I get him to understand my quality of life (i wont even get started on socially) is declining because of my lazy eye.

I called the office and told them about the newly developed double vision and the worsening of my intermittent eye turn. And they said “he will need to see you to determine whether you need stronger prisms or surgery”

TLDR;

Intermittent eye turn is ruining my quality of life - on top of now getting double vision and issues with quick motions coming toward me (driving included). I do not want prism glasses, I want surgery. Doctor has not really been taking me seriously. How can I convince him to hear me out?

Additionally, if any of you have had strabismus surgery in Washington State (not DC), and know of any kind strabismus surgeons - please let me know as I’m looking for more options in case I’m turned down again.

I’m one week post op (both eyes). I work a desk job with 2 monitors and looking back and forth makes me nauseous still, like motion sickness feeling. Looking at my phone, tv, driving, etc doesn’t seem to bother me, and I’m fine shortly after I stop working. Has anyone else felt this? I have my follow up tomorrow, so I’ll ask there too. I’m not seeing online or in my packet about this feeling, so just curious if it’s a me thing! I try to remember to just turn my head but don’t do it every time.

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I’ve had severe exotropia of my right eye since childhood. The vision in the eye is unrecoverable. On May 1 I found out that my insurance would cover correction even though there would be no vision improvement. I had surgery on May 10th - last Friday.

So far the results are great - my eyes are tracking together! For the first time in forty years I can see both my irises. I didn’t know my eye color was so pretty.

But, the healing is freaking me out.

Obviously I did barely any research before surgery. I seriously thought this would be a quick surgery and recovery. Like, maybe slightly more intense than wisdom teeth removal. Now I know that was wrong!

I’m know I’m only on day 4 post surgery, but I didn’t expect so much swelling. I’m terrified I’m going to do something to mess it up - like when I sneeze I’m scared the pressure will tear the stitches or something. I’m so conscious of the eye now in a way I wasn’t before.

I’ll be calling my surgeon (great guy, I lucked out finding someone with an excellent record), but I guess I was hoping for reassurance. What was your recovery like? How long did it take you to feel like your eyes were just part of you?

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Hi mates! I was just diagnosed with bilateral strabismus in a near future as a possibility (onward exo). Do you know how when talking eye to eye in front of a person do bilateral strabismus focus? They just straighten one eye and get loose the other? All the information will help

Hi all, am currently wearing an eye patch constantly as my double vision is so terrible and the patch really helps. Does anyone else wear them regularly and have any recommendations for online sellers who sell ones that aren't huge and awful looking? Currently sporting one from Amazon that had fasteat delivery.

My whole life I've always had intermittent esotropia in my right eye at a distance. It was manageable, until around 2 years ago when my double vision became near constant, and I was prescribed prism glasses. The prism glasses helped tremendously, but in the past few months or so, my eyes were starting to see slight double again with them on, so I made an appointment with a different ophthalmologist in my area. The prisms help, but I'm tired of relying on them, and I really wanted to rid myself of this double vision, and the glasses. Had to get a referral first from an Optometrist (ophthalmologist has a clinic where the opto sees you first), optometrist met with me, obvious diagnosis -Esotropia ET OD, and she refereed me to the ophthalmologist, which I saw 3 days later. I met with the ophthalmologist and she did a few tests, said I had hypertropia? in my left eye and that we could do surgery on that eye to see what happens. Hypertropia? My left eye has always been perfect, my right eye is the eye that drifts in, the eye that has always been this way. I kept mentioning my right eye being the issue, but she kept shooting it down saying I need surgery on my left eye and we'll see "what happens". I mean, you can literally look at me and tell my right eye is the issue, haha.. I was a bit confused and upset, but this ophthalmologist has extremely good ratings, did a successful strabismus surgery on both of my uncle's eyes, so I took her word, and thought to myself she knows what she's talking about, and surely this surgery will somehow fix my issue, even if it's on my other eye and not the affected eye. The weeks leading up to the surgery I was so nervous that maybe I'm getting the wrong surgery done, but I was still very trusting in what she said. Fast forward, 6 days ago its surgery day. I'm in my room waiting to be wheeled to surgery and the ophthalmologist comes in to draw her initials above my eye, and I mention my right eye again, and ask are we sure we're doing the right surgery, and she just seemed dismissive and reassured me that everything is alright and we're doing the right surgery. I get the surgery, wake up seeing double even worse than before, get wheeled out and sent home and I fall asleep immediately. Woke up with extreme double vision, my left eye that was operated on is still aligned EXACTLY the same, and my right eye is still drifting in like it always has. The prisms don't work anymore and I can't wear my contacts because I don't want to risk infection. (i wear prisms+contacts). I have been bedridden because my double vision is so horrendous that I can't even get out of bed without wanting to puke, and it hasn't lessened. Could she really have made a mistake? Why was my non-affected eye operated on and not my eye with esotropia? Funny thing is, I even checked my documents from my appointments and it clearly says "Esotropia ET OD" and my right eye. The document also shows hypertropia and that all my questions were answered and may need a 2nd surgery, which, they weren't all answered, and she did mention a 2nd surgery, but assured me that probably wouldn't need to happen. I'm super confused by the lack of proper information and why my left eye was operated on. I've already taken a week off of work, and I'm going to have to take off more because I can't even function properly like this. My post op isn't until next week, but I'm calling their office as soon as they open to see what the hell is up. I feel so stupid that I didn't fight back more, but I just wanted this problem that has ruined my life since I was younger to be corrected, and I ended up with it being worse. See photos for my documents.

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18m had strabismus from a very young age. Got bullied in school for that. Never had a gf. Im always afraid to see my own reflection, afraid to see other people's eye afraid of cameras. Recently did a surgery in one of the eyes but didn't get a good result, still noticable misalignment in my eyes. So people with strabimus how u handle these kinda things. I need advice how to boost my confidence