Adult amblyopia?

[Belle1962]

Does anyone have any experience in being treated for adult amblyopia? A friend has this condition and I am very discouraged by what I am reading on the internet. There's NO HOPE at all for adults? It has to be caught in childhood or "too bad"?

Thanks in advance.

 

[m&m's mom]

I am by no means on Optomerist or Opthamologist but we were sternly told to patch our DD's eyes, because if the neuropassage ways were not developed by a certain time, they never would. Not sure if that applies in your friends situation or not.

 

[Bee]

Sorry to hear that... my now 14 yr old has that... we caught her and patched her at abt 4 and they told me that it may be too late... However, we were able to fix it.

I have it, because when I was little I didnt patch like I should have... the only thing it has really affected is they told me that I would never be a candidate for Laser.

I dont notice it too much.. my eye does not wonder.. I have noticed my left eye picks up the slack.

Good luck to you,

Bee

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Are you speaking of "lazy eye"? My dh had that and was never treated as a child. It has made him farsighted.
His needs glasses to see anything up close.

 

[Belle1962]

Thanks all. Her eye doctor told her it wouldn't be worth it to write a script for glasses becuase the vision is so bad in the bad eye that they would be "coke bottle thick" on that side and normal on the other--making her off balance.

 

[Aardvarks]

I have a mixed amblyopia and strabismus as a result of problems during birth.

As a child i was patched from the age of 4. As an adult I now attend the binocular vision dept of my local University.

My spectacles contain prisms which have been split across both lenses in order to avoid a coke bottle effect.

My dominant eye can reach 20:20 with the right lens, but my weak eye gets nowhere near this level of acuity, even with specs I cant see what i am typing at the moment. This is beause when I was born, my bad eye did not focus the light onto my real fovea and so it atrophied and the part of my retina that did get the image will never be as good as a fovea as there arent enough light receptors. So I kind of have a 12 megapixel left eye and a 2 megapixel right eye.

The only problems that I have had during life have been in relation to binocular vision during high speed accuracy sports such as tennis, squash, table tennis, cricket, rounders. Seeing a fast moving ball and being able to determine where it is in 3 dimentions is a real challenge for me and so I always avoided this type of team sports at school and University.

I have no problems with depth of field if the object is stationary or large (like a truck, thank goodness!!!)

 

[POOHDRMR]

My dh has it an was diagnosed when little-he wore the patch and glasses growing up.It is not to bad for him now as an adult-he wears glasses for work(he is in IT)My MIL has it and was not treated as a child and is legally blind in the one eye from it.She wears thick glasses now.

 

[PaulaSB12]

I have a lazy eye that is long sighted and the other eye is short sighted. Over the years I have developed the habit of using one eye for distance and driving and the other for reading. I do have glasses but only with lenses in one eye the other is blank. I can't play squash but if thats the only problem then it doesn't bother me.

 

[mommytomy3]

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I have it, because when I was little I didnt patch like I should have... the only thing it has really affected is they told me that I would never be a candidate for Laser.

I dont notice it too much.. my eye does not wonder.. I have noticed my left eye picks up the slack.

Good luck to you,

Bee

This is exactly me! I have it, as a child my mother never made me wear the patch (I did have one) My eye does not wander either, if I close my 'good' eye, I see awful, but both eyes together I am 20/20, and do not need glasses. I am always scared that something might happen to my good eye.

 

[PaulaSB12]

I was told when I was 16 that I had not been born with binocular vision that is why I either use my right or left eye. Apart from routine eye tests I don't do anything special because of of it.