Question with my esotropia strabismus?!


Question: I have had bifocal lenses since I was three due to my esotropia. I have now had my glasses for 11 years. What I have noticed is that I can correct my inward eye myself. It stays that way all of the time, except when I am extremely tired. My vision is a little blurred, but other then that its fine. What is my next step to have my eyes improve? contacts? surgery?


Answers: I have had bifocal lenses since I was three due to my esotropia. I have now had my glasses for 11 years. What I have noticed is that I can correct my inward eye myself. It stays that way all of the time, except when I am extremely tired. My vision is a little blurred, but other then that its fine. What is my next step to have my eyes improve? contacts? surgery?

Your eyes are individual, so the only person who can answer that precisely will be the person who examines them.

If you are 14, you're moving out of the age where a lazy eye can develop, so it might be possible to think of getting rid of the bifocal element in a year or so, or it may still be a good idea while you're still studying hard.
Contacts for your distance Rx with extra glasses to relieve stress just for closework would also be a possibility.
Refractive surgery? Not till 18 as a minimum, and it's probably not a good idea for a few years beyond that.
Surgery for eye alignment? If you're getting some binocular vision now, and no double vision or amblyopia, then that's also probably best left until you've finished growing, (if you're going to need it at all). But that is much more an open question for your doctor.

The real thing to work on will be binocular vision and binocular stability. 3D viewers and magic eye books, if you can work them, are good for this.

The more you can get your eyes to be happy to do team work, the more the options will open up.

Optometrist, retired.





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