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Nukoo 
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 Topic: Child with "Lazy Eye"Posted: 15 June 2012 at 1:12pm |
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I have just been told that my son has severe amblyopia (lazy eye) and has been referred to a specialist. I am pretty stressed about it
 and don't know what to expect. I was wondering if there is anyone else out there who has been through this with their child and if they could share their experience with me???
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Aroha11
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Posted: 15 June 2012 at 1:54pm |
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Nukoo - I haven't but my cousin's boy has a lazy eye, but not really sure of the details he now wears glasses to try to get the lazy eye to work 'better'. He is a very active happy kid and it hasn't fazed him in the slightest full of beans and into everything.
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kebakat
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Posted: 15 June 2012 at 2:00pm |
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DH has one. We suspected #2 had one as well.
He was only a year old when he was seen. Don't stress about it because there's heaps they can do. The tests are pretty simple and treatment can mean glasses but they can also do surgery to correct the muscles if that's an option in your sons case who knows. Because our boy is so young it's a watch and see thing because his isnt bad at all so they just wanna see if his eyesight is actually affected by it. The tests they did on my lil guy were just looking into his eye with instruments and trying to test his vision with special cards. It's nothing major. DH has had surgery on his eye when he was 3 but he has an additional issue with the lazy eye, wore a patch and all sorts of things. While he needs glasses/contacts for that eye it doesn't bother him. |
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VioletStar
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Posted: 15 June 2012 at 2:30pm |
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My brother had a lazy eye when he was a child, he had the surgery to correct the muscles and it has looked perfectly normal since
 He is now 23 years old.
There were other options but my parents went for that one |
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JadeC
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Posted: 15 June 2012 at 9:48pm |
My sister had this too, and had the surgery. She did try glasses first, but they didn't do much. She now has the tiniest scar ever - you can only see it when she looks as far to the side as she can. She's never had any trouble since the operation. |
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rachndean
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Posted: 16 June 2012 at 8:31pm |
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Hey Nukoo,
Our DS was diagnosed with a "squint" or "lazy eye" when he was 8 months old. We saw the specialist (who by the way is AMAZING, if you are in Northland I can highly recommend!) when DS was almost 1, he advised us to patch DS's strong eye every day after his day sleep when eyes were refreshed, and he was to leave the patch on for at least an hour. After 6 months of doing this the specialist was happy with the progress, so decided to do corrective surgery. DS was 22 months when he had it done. Basically they cut the muscles in both eyes, and realign them so they are straight. Sounds crazy scary but it was an amazingly quick procedure. 2 hours from being admitted to leaving the hospital and DS was playing on the playground at McDonalds! We now have follow up appointments every 6 months, there is a chance they may want to do the surgery again when he is older but we for now the surgeon is very happy with his 100% allignment and 20/20 vision. The one piece of advice I can give is to follow everything the surgeon recommends to a tee. We were told that so many surgeries are delayed because parents are lax with patching etc. Oh and when your little man is screaming down the hospital because he doesnt want eye drops, dont worry that anyone is judging you. They have either been there before, or will be there very soon!!! 
Good luck with getting it all sorted!! |
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Nukoo
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Posted: 18 June 2012 at 2:03pm |
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Thanx for all your stories they are all very positive
 Ashton doesn't have a squint so I'm anxious to find out the cause of the impaired vision, hopefully we get an appointment soon
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LILLIS
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Posted: 18 June 2012 at 3:33pm |
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My DD has this too.
I was the same extremely stressed but saw a great specialist. She wears glasses (a +5 script so basically jam jar glasses) and it has straightened her eye. She is short sighted as well ( I think  )so we have to see if she will grow out of that.
We see our specialist every 6 months now and are looking at surgery when she is older - he is saying around 8-10 years, once she no longer needs the glasses to see properly. They wont do surgery while the glasses are working as it will then make her eyes turn out. Good luck! |
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