lazy eye????

Question

I have a lazy eye and my eye is never straight i look retarted...

i heard from diffrent places (my brother,yahoo answers, my friend) that if you wear contacs or glasses your eyes look straight why wearing them.. is that true? please tell me or give me a site or something.. because im considering getting contacs

please tell me??? (10 pts for those who could help)

Answer 1

A range of possibilities.
I'm assuming you are over 12 years of age, so actual treatment of the lazy eye is not a real option.

If you have uncorrected longsight in your GOOD eye and the lazy eye turns in, wearing contact lenses or glasses can improve the angle of the lazy eye, even eliminating it completely in "pure accommodative esotropia" (URL)
The effect is not so likely to occur with short-sight (myopia) and the eyes turning out

If not, with spectacles *but not with contacts*, there is a cosmetic trick which can make the eye look straighter, using prisms opposite to those which would be used when attempting to make the eye work. This can be very effective, but cannot be done if it is visually disturbing. If there is no binocular vision, it shouldn't be.

The remaining option is, of course, strabismus, "squint" surgery.

(UK optometrist)

Answer 2

Well its true for me, when I wore glasses and I took them off, my eyes looked sort of lazy. Not very lazy but noticeable if your staring at me. Even now if I take my contacts out and I'm trying to focus in on something because I can barely see, they will look a little crossed.
My eyes get crossed and sometimes even wonders when I don't have my contacts in because I have bad eye sight that's like 22/100, but if you have a lazy eye and have fairly decent eye sight then glasses or contacts may not help you that much. It might make your eyes worst because as I've seen, glasses and contacts make your eye muscles even weaker and dependent on them. You have two options, get laser surgery and get it corrected. Its works, I know someone that got teased unmercifully about her extremely lazy eyes get them corrected and she looks absolutely great. You can also say hey you were born with and accept it as just being apart of yourself. This is easier said then done but things could be worst, you could have a dead eye.

Answer 3

I have a lazy eye as well and yes wearing glasses could help a bit. Allow me to explain because not only have I reesarched this for personal reasons (same as yours...the geeky look right) but for prefessional reasons as well as I work with alot of kids with this disorder. Its called strabismus by the way in case you want to look it up.
Strabismus is caused by weaker eye muscles in one eye that causes the eyes not to allighn properly. Also the muscles that pull the eye away from the nose could be to tight which will also cause the alighnment problems. So its eaither a weak muscle or and over tight muscle.
Here is the fun thing about glasses. Then lense basically draws your eye back into alighnment. The fun part is sometimes it hurts like hell because your stretching eye muscles that arent not used to being in that position.
The other fun thing about glasses is vision is a learned skill, a developmental skill. You deveoped your vision with your eyes being jacked up basically because your brain had to learn to compensate. What I mean is with out allighnment of your eyes your eyes do not "team" and so you do not have bonocular vision. Basically your eyes are never actually working at the same time. So you dont have any depth perception. Have touble gauging the depth of stairs or how about curbs when your driving...thats why. So what does this have to do with glasses. Well by forcing your eyes into alighnment you are getting depth perception. Great right? Maybe depends how old you are and how accustomed your brain is to having it. You may find that when you get glasses things will look odd to you..almost jumping out at you.
My personal expereince is that the pain of the muscle strain on my eyes and not being able to deal with having depth perception made it not worth wearing the glasses...it was too much too soon. Im 32 and my brain is quite content with my jacked up vision apparently.
Something worth checking into may be vision therapy, eye excercises. Some people swear by them...me well I could write another book on that entirely. If you do consider that route make sure you go to a vision therapist or an opthalmologist thats trained in vision therapy. I have seen people's vision get worse when given eye excersises by people who dont know what they are doing.
Anyway I hope that kinda answers your question. Like I said I could write a book and bore you to death on my theories on this. You can email me if ya like...but I have already taken up alot of your space.

Answer 4

I don't agree with your friends! Lazy eye, ****** eye, muccels and fusion capacity, is all the same. I have this same problem! You need to check with your eye doc> They use to have an operation for this. It didn't help every one, but some it has. It didn't help me.
I had the operation when I was 16

Answer 5

I too have lazy eyes, yes both of them! I wear glasses and they both look perfectly normal. If I leave my glasses off for too long they go wandering again though. Contacts didnt work for me.