I have a condition with my eyes, and dont know the name can anyone tell me?!


Question: When i was quite young i told the optition i could essentially "swap" which eye i viewed with. I was young at the time and didnt quite get the explanation but it went like this. Rather than my eyes working toghter they work sepratley, and ran to my brain sepratly and thats why i can swap, he said that it had no real upside and i wont get the full effect from 3-D movies. Another thing is i have no troube judging ditance with one eye closed (so there was an advantage :P). Im intrested to know more about it but dont know the name. Thats all he said, i imagine somthing like the optic nerves going stright to the tracts without linking, but thats porberly impossible. I dont belive im "cross eyed" or such but mabay that is just it.


Answers: When i was quite young i told the optition i could essentially "swap" which eye i viewed with. I was young at the time and didnt quite get the explanation but it went like this. Rather than my eyes working toghter they work sepratley, and ran to my brain sepratly and thats why i can swap, he said that it had no real upside and i wont get the full effect from 3-D movies. Another thing is i have no troube judging ditance with one eye closed (so there was an advantage :P). Im intrested to know more about it but dont know the name. Thats all he said, i imagine somthing like the optic nerves going stright to the tracts without linking, but thats porberly impossible. I dont belive im "cross eyed" or such but mabay that is just it.

Alternating strabismus.
(that doesn't mean one of your eyes is pointing off into right or left field, but it's almost certain your two eyes aren't in perfect alignment.)

In most people that would mean having one distinctly favourite eye, and one lazy, amblyopic, one.
but sometimes it's exactly as you describe and the eye out of use is only temporarily "suppressed" to avoid double vision.

There is one definite potential future benefit, to make up for the loss of 3d imagery and slight reduction in depth perception: when at 40+ you start to need a different Rx for reading, you may well have the option of having one eye for distance and one for near, avoiding all the fuss and expense of varifocals.

PS The fibres in your optic nerves will run quite normally. That's not where this comes from.

That sounds a condition I saw on Discovery Health called the Boggles.

The optic nerve should cross at mid-line going to the brain, in some rare cases the optic nerves travel straight back. this gives you a different vision than normal, but it is all you have know so you have probably adjusted well. You should probably update an exam with an ophthalmologist (not optometrist). To see if anything needs or should be done. They CANNOT cut the nerve as this will NOT regrow and you will be blind.

You need to go to an opthalmologist and get a proper eye exam and ask your questions. be sure you do not leave until he has explained the results of your exam in terms you can understand. An Optician is NOT an eye doctor. Opticians are only licensed to make and fit eyeglasses, not diagnos eye conditions. An opthalmologist is physician who specializes in dagnosing and treating eye diseases and conditions.

I dont know if this will help. Here is a website that tells you about your eyes and stuff.


http://eugeneeyecare.com/conditions/Stra...

You have alternating strabismus, could be esotropia or exotroopia. Would not be an optic nerve thing, it is a type of "crossed eyes".

The post saying opticians are not qualified to exam eyes likely doesn't know that in Britain and some other countries the term "optician" is used for the eye professional that is called "optometrist" in North America.

There is a good chance that you have alternating esotropia. Don't rely on advice from a "medical professional." She is probably somebodies office girl. Her advice is incorrect.
I believe Dr. Pedestal is pretty much correct.





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