What could help curing a lazy eye?!

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Well the patch is a great idea. The downside however is that it may look silly or make you pratically blind which can be off-putting. If you are spending time with that eye and you can't make any sense of what you see its likely your eye/brain will just give up in the end.

If that's the case then wearing a lens of some sort to correct the vision will give the eye some chance of being useful. That's a good idea. Another solution is pinholes glasses. They may give that eye a good work out. Using them also encourages you to relax your body and mind properly and move your eye around more effectively. There are a couple of videos about them on YouTube. Anyone can wear them and research shows training with them alongsie being relaxed provided positive results for people.

The problem you have with mentioning the word 'Bates' is that he wrote a very successful book called 'The Bates Method For Better Vision Without Glasses'. A lot of salesmen who rely on selling glasses to make a living must be horrified by such a titled for a book. If you look online at comment made by customers who bought the book MOST of them report having better vision after picking the book. Nearly all the negative comments are by optometrists/glasses salespeople who make up false facts about the book. If you look at amazon.com there's one guy leaving lots of comments insulting the book and saying its dangerous. I remember one point he made was that this book teaches you to stare at the sun.

He obviously didn't read the book and for most people its the case they didnt read it first hand. To know if it works for you can just try it out yourself. However if you have no probkem relaxing your eyes and have no problem with moving your eys in any direction then you already seem to be using your eyes in a correct fashion already and the exercises may be of limited use to you. Also people different ages/gender may feel more comfortable with different types of methods.

The book by Dr.Bates was written 100 years ago. If it was unhelpful to people then nobody would be buying a book for so many years.

Anyway I'm sure with some time and patience you'll make progress and make a success out of it.

I wish you the best of luck for the future.

There is an FDA approved program for treating qualified amblyopia patients called RevitalVision. It was recently featured in the www.allaboutvision.com website as a treatment option for older children and adults. Study the results and discuss it with your eye care professional.

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/amblyopia.htm
www.revitalvision.com

I think, I can not answer all your questions.
I have one suggestion, you should often look at something far away. This is the usual way that is helpful.