Can Lasik eye surgery be performed on a lazy eye, and what's the average cost?

Question

I'm thinking about having it done on my right eye.

Answer 1

Lasik can be performed on a lazy eye but I only recommend it if you are wearing glasses or contacts and your corrected vision is really better -because lasik is performed for visual benefits and not because you can't live with the idea to have 5 D hypermetropia-

Answer 2

Some surgeons will do it some will not. It will not correct the eye from wondering. If your lazy eye is capable of seeing better with correction ( glasses or contacts) than lasik will do the same. Example: If your best corrected vision is only say 20/60 or whatever then more than likely that is what lasik will correct it to. AS far as costs it depends on where you live, your prescription and the technology used. Anywhere between I'd say 500 to 2000 an eye.

Answer 3

i hav Ambliobia(lazy eye) in my right eye and i am legally blind in that eye (im not sure if that i part of it) but ambliobia is a problem with the brain not the actual eye. when i was born my brain didnt fully develop that sight in that eye. so when we went to the docters we talked about the possibility of lasik and he said that all the lasik will do for th9is is help stop the eye from wandering. but it wont last. it will wear off after a while and will eventually go back to wandering.

so to answer that it will have basicly no effect on you and wil be a watr of time and money...

but to be sure i would talk to your optomotrists

Answer 4

yes, lasik can be performed on a "lazy eye", but it will not correct the vision any better than glasses do. in other words, it wont fix the "lazy". dont expect to see any better in that eye AFTER lasik than you do in that eye with glasses on right now.

Answer 5

My sister has amblyopia and it wasn't detected soon enough. She was born cross-eyed but it wasn't obvious from looking at her. By the time her problem was found, she had pretty much lost all the vision in her right eye. What happened was that her brain tried to compensate for her double vision by shutting off the vision in that eye. To this day, she can barely see out of it and has poor depth perception. Nothing can be done to fix that. Even if she were to lose the vision in her good eye, it wouldn't help. She would still be blind.

Answer 6

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