Eye Problems

[Rebecca47]

Not sure if this is in the right spot.

I guess crossed eye and lazy eye are different ?

Hi

This is a quick note to say I went to the eye doctor yesterday, and explained that i was born crossed -eyed. That I wore bifocals until I was 10 yrs, then i had surgery on my right etc.

She listened very carefully, as it was my first time to see her. Well i was very impressed , seeing that i had gone to an opthamolgist just a few days early.

That dr. told me that i was ok and that I was just getting older and that is why i was focusing and couldn't read small print.

Well a long story short, this new dr, DR Stout she is great. She did a complete exam including loking for diseases.

Well no cataracs, no blk spots or glaucoma etc., but I do have a stigma in my right and I do not see with both eyes at the same time, she said very rare. Also my right cornia (spelled wrong) is in the shape of an oval and my left eye is round.

I am both nearsighted and farsighted and my left eye is worse than my right. I will get my new bifocals in about 2 or up to 4 weeks. Yahoo i will be able to read things without a magnafirer ( also spelled wrong ) sorry my eyes are killing me and i am not thinking very well.

She has all the new technolgies and gadgets in the office i saw pics of the insides of my eyes all good.

She said that only one eye is reading at any given time and that i use my left eye more or tilt my head back and forth to see which ever works best. but mostly i read with the left one only.

She said have what is called STRABISMUS I googled it and I learned alot about it. I need to google it again and make sure i read it right, that the eyes are seeing to different images and one eye takes over the other and is the brain that can''t make the eye work correctly, because of the muscles in the eye.

Any way i thought i would share bacause it really bothers me that there is another thing with me and to see if anybody else has this problem or close ro it.

Thanks in advance for letting me vent.

[tarnalberry]

that's *fabulous* you were able to get someone to work with you! I hope this means good things in your visual future!

[Kaycee]

Kai ora Rrebecca,

Don't you just love the way we are told we are getting old when it comes to our eyes.

I have only just been and had my eyes re-tested, I have had glasses for years due to short sightedness. I know back in the my twenties I was told I had a stigmatism, and the optician last month described it as a mixture of short sightedness and longsightedness put together in the one spot. He did not say it was serious, but said I should be reading with my glasses which are progressives (bifocal without the horizontal line). Up to then I have usually read minus glasses not thinking anything was wrong with my sight. But I did note at the time that it was feeling like only one eye was doing all the reading, and the other was only there for the journey. But I do notice a difference reading with my new glasses. Did I tell you, well wrote in my blog that I got the cost back of the lenses, amounting to $800 just after Christmas. I was so wrapped.

Yes the optitians do very thorough checks, and I had the photos of my eyes, glaucoma checks, he is not too happy with that and I have to go back in 6 months, and he made the comment that my eyes were rugby and not soccer ball shaped. He put it that they were rugby shaped and not football. Whereas in NZ I think both footballs and rugby balls are the same shape, but then realised this eye doctor was English and yes both balls are so different!

So Rebecca you are not quite on your own with funny eyes. I haven't taken my problems to be too serious, maybe I am wrong and should be worrying more. But I am a bit worried about the glaucoma check, but at least if caught early it is usually able to be restrained.

Cathy.

[tarnalberry]

I got glasses for my astigmatism when I was 17 - while I still had better than perfect vision otherwise. So all that was corrected was that. (It's a distortion that makes the cornea or lens (depending on type of astigmatism) oblong, rather than round, which causes the image focal points to get "split" as they converge towards the retina - This Open Original Shared Link does a pretty good job of explaining it.)

These days, I'm slightly near sighted (20/50ish) so I have glasses, but I have computer glasses that only correct for the astigmatism (the nearsighted correction was hurting my eyes with a desk job), and my contact lenses (for swimming/skiing/outdoor activities) only correct for the nearsightedness. (And I do my reading and laptop work without glasses at all.)

Eye optics are wacky!