Can you cure a lazy eye in an adult?

Question

I have a slightly lazy eye (left eye) and when i look at an angle it is a little noticeable - I am 28 and in my life only a couple of people have ever mentioned it and most people (even my mother, father girlfriends, friends etc) don't notice it, in fact i noticed myself about 5 years ago when taking a photo of myself with a camera phone. But I am sure it is getting worse. My optometrist told me my left eye (the lazy one) is weaker.

Would lazer surgery to make both eyes stronger help this, or is there another more invasive solution? I am really worred as I am sure it is getting worse. Please help.

Answer 1

Google The Bates Method. It helps people with visual problems & it might well be the thing for you!

Answer 2

I'm not sure if patching the good eye works in adults like it does in children.

There is corrective surgery where they shorten various extraocular muscles.

I didn't know there is a laser surgery operation. I'm pretty sure the laser surgery just reshapes the cornea.

In children, they patch the good eye to make them use the lazy eye and strengthen the muscles.

You will need to talk to an eye doctor about this, I'm afraid.

Answer 3

Amblyopia is functional reduction in visual acuity of an eye caused by disuse during visual development. Blindness can occur in the affected eye if amblyopia is not detected and treated before age 8 yr. Diagnosis is based on detecting a difference in visual acuity between the 2 eyes. Treatment depends on the cause.
Consult an Ophthalmologist.
Please see the web pages for more details on Amblyopia.

Answer 4

The answer is no, it has no cure at your age.
What ophtalmologists do is to provide a higher graduation for that eye, so your brain gets used to see better with that eye, and starts "taking it to account".
So, exactly the opposite as in children.
The important thing is not to get worried, and go to see a specialist.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

To correct amblyopia, the blurry eye must first be forced to work in order to allow the opportunity for clear vision to develop. This is usually done by patching the clear eye for specific periods of time, forcing the blurry eye to "turn on" so that visual cells are stimulated, allowing clearer vision to develop. Secondly, glasses are prescribed to provide the blurry eye with the best support possible. Finally, if the underlying cause of the lazy eye is strabismus, then the eye turn must also be addressed.

In addition to glasses, there are three different approaches to the treatment of a lazy eye: 1) patching alone, 2) patching combined with surgery, and 3) patching combined with vision therapy. .

Patching Only

When the treatment procedure involves patching only, the clear eye is covered for 2 to 8 hours a day over a long period of time, from 3 months to a year. (Sometimes blurring drops are used instead of a patch.) By forcing the blurry eye to work, its vision improves. However, there are serious drawbacks to this option. First, because the good eye is covered, the child cannot see well and is often frustrated and uncooperative. Often the patch has to be taped over the eye. Over a period of time, the skin around the eye can become irritated and raw. Also, there is danger of loss of vision in the clear eye when it is covered most of the time for weeks on end. The study showed that 3 hours a day was as beneficial as all day patching. Hopefully, most eye doctors are adapting their recommendations in light of the new research.)

Unfortunately, the gains from patching can be limited in the degree of visual improvement that can be achieved, and these gains are not always permanent. While patching usually improves vision, it is not always possible to restore to normal 20/20 vision with the patch alone. it is not uncommon to lose some of these gains over time. This is because strabismus, the underlying cause of the lazy eye, was never addressed. If you don't take care of the root of the problem, you still have a problem. For a permanent solution, the brain must be taught to stop suppressing the blurry eye and trained how to align and use the two eyes together--something a patch by itself cannot do. If this is not done, the visual system will still suppress the lazy eye once the patch is removed. As a result, some of the improvement from patching will be lost over time. Once patching is stopped, the vision in the lazy eye often degenerates if nothing has been done to teach the brain to use both eyes together.

Patching with Surgery

In addition to a patching regimen, eye surgeons sometime recommend surgery for the crossed/wandering eye. Unfortunately, eye surgery does nothing to restore normal two-eyed vision, a learned process of the brain. Surgery simply makes the eyes appear straight by cutting and stretching muscles to reposition the eye, a cosmetic "fix" but not a visual cure. Surgery cannot correct the improper habits the brain learned which caused the misalignment problem to begin with, nor can surgery train the brain how to use both eyes together. In order for the problem to be truly corrected, the brain must learn not to suppress and be trained to use both eyes together.



Vision Therapy

Vision therapy is highly successful in remediating a lazy eye. Much akin to other physical therapies, vision therapy stimulates and guides visual development, training the brain to perform visual functions that did not develop on their own. Vision therapy is prescribed by developmental optometrists (sometimes called behavioral optometrists) who specialize in children's vision and who have received board certification in this area of care.
Vision therapy is highly successful in improving the function and performance of a lazy eye. Therapy corrects not only the poor vision in the lazy eye, but it also corrects the underlying problem of the brain's inability to align and use both eyes together, so the gains are permanent. During therapy, the patient's brain is trained to stop suppressing the lazy eye, the visual pathways from brain to eyes are improved so the patient can keep both eyes aligned, and finally the brain is taught to fuse the images coming in from both eyes for normal binocular ("two-eyed") vision. Research shows that vision therapy restores the visual system to normal in over 90% of cases.
Like other interventions, vision therapy usually involves patching the clear eye to force the blurry eye to work, but for much shorter periods of time. Rather than full time patching for up to twelve hours a day, a patient in vision therapy will usually be asked to patch for two hours. Much less patching time is necessary when the child's visual system is also being trained how to use the weak eye properly.
The gains achieved in vision therapy are permanent. This is because once the brain learns binocularity, or how to fuse the images from both eyes, the visual system is restored to normal. Binocular fusion is the glue which permanently holds the vision system in place, simply because it's easier to see correctly than to have each eye fighting each other to see separately. Binocular fusion keeps the eyes from drifting out of alignment, and because there is no longer a need for the lazy eye to suppress, its improved acuity, or sharpness of vision, is not lost over time.

Answer 7

surgury. see an opthalmologist and the would strenghten or weaken your eye muscles which will make them straight.