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amother
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 Thu, Nov 26 2009, 9:10 pm
| the world's best mom wrote: |
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if being a righty or lefty affects which eye is stronger? My dh and I are righties with stronger left eyes, and ds is a lefty with a stronger right eye. Is this just a coincidence? |
Interesting, bec. DS is a lefty and now that I'm thinking about it, his left eye is the weaker one, so we are patching the right, I wonder if you are onto something there!
We use Dr. Deutch, in downtown Brooklyn. Ds has had this since he was 7 months, and we patched off and on, last year he got glasses, which have helped a lot and now he wears a fabric patch over the glasses, which is much more comfortable and cheaper than the sticky ones.
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realeez
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Thu, Nov 26 2009, 9:15 pm
| the world's best mom wrote: | Ds had his surgery on Tuesday. Now his eyes are all awollen and bloody.
We knew he had a lazy eye because his left eye kept going out instead of moving together with his right.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if being a righty or lefty affects which eye is stronger? My dh and I are righties with stronger left eyes, and ds is a lefty with a stronger right eye. Is this just a coincidence? |
Interesting - I am a righty and had a lazy left eye and ds is a leftie and has a lazy right eye!
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the world's best mom
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Thu, Nov 26 2009, 9:25 pm
| realeez wrote: | | the world's best mom wrote: | Ds had his surgery on Tuesday. Now his eyes are all awollen and bloody.
We knew he had a lazy eye because his left eye kept going out instead of moving together with his right.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if being a righty or lefty affects which eye is stronger? My dh and I are righties with stronger left eyes, and ds is a lefty with a stronger right eye. Is this just a coincidence? |
Interesting - I am a righty and had a lazy left eye and ds is a leftie and has a lazy right eye! |
Oh well, you prove my theory wrong. Too bad.
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new-here
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Thu, Nov 26 2009, 9:59 pm
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To amother above, the best way to determine amblyopia is by going to a good pediatric eye doctor. If you suspect anything it is always best to check it out, the sooner the better.
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realeez
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Thu, Nov 26 2009, 10:01 pm
| the world's best mom wrote: | | realeez wrote: | | the world's best mom wrote: | Ds had his surgery on Tuesday. Now his eyes are all awollen and bloody.
We knew he had a lazy eye because his left eye kept going out instead of moving together with his right.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if being a righty or lefty affects which eye is stronger? My dh and I are righties with stronger left eyes, and ds is a lefty with a stronger right eye. Is this just a coincidence? |
Interesting - I am a righty and had a lazy left eye and ds is a leftie and has a lazy right eye! |
Oh well, you prove my theory wrong. Too bad. |
No, I proved that I am losing it!!!! I wrote it up backwards!
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the world's best mom
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Thu, Nov 26 2009, 10:14 pm
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Oh good, so I still may be right. I have to remember to ask my mother which of her eyes was lazy. (She is a righty.) I think the optic nerve connects the right eye to the left side of the brain and the left to the right side, so it makes sense to me.
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YALT
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Thu, Nov 26 2009, 10:26 pm
Sorry to prove you wrong, but I'm a lefty & my left eye is stronger.
I had laser surgery for amblyopia. If I remember correctly I wore a patch both before & after the surgery. I know I had a hard time keeping it on bec. I moved in the process and it didn't make it too easy to make new friends.
I had the surgery when I was 4. I wear glasses ever since.
Dr. Steele's office is very good. We thought DS had lazy eye as well, and Dr. Wang's office just looked & said nothing wrong. goodbye. Dr. Steele's office explained why we saw what we saw.
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the world's best mom
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Thu, Nov 26 2009, 10:30 pm
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KAlex
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Fri, Nov 27 2009, 5:14 am
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I'll back up the tendency, though - my mother and I are both right-handed, with stronger left eyes. My DH has a stronger right eye, and writes with his right hand, though he's basically ambidextrous and got taught to write with the right hand, so I amn't sure what that says...
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amother
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Fri, Nov 27 2009, 6:00 am
my son has severe ambolopyia (one perfect eye and one at -12)
unfortunately we only found out at age 7 by a routine first grade checkup and we went from dr. to dr. but there is no more chance really.
patching won't work for him as with his right eye patched he is practically blind and bumped into everything.
We looked into contacts but my son has dry eyes and contacts didn't work - and the doc didn't think vision training would work in my sons case without the contacts (though you should know that vision training can be very successful in many cases)
my son is also a lefty.
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losingweight
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Fri, Nov 27 2009, 6:45 am
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My dd wore adorable colorful patches (avail in all pharmacies and covered by medicaid) all day for a year. My dh used to joke that he doesn't know why we were so lucky with her cooperatiom cuz he used to take his patch off on the bus going to cheder and put it back on on the way home. The result of that, an extremely lazy eye.
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the world's best mom
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Fri, Nov 27 2009, 8:07 am
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So there might be somthing to my theory, even if it's only correct 90% of the time.
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chocolate moose
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Fri, Nov 27 2009, 10:04 am
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I could tell that my daughter never saw well. It was very distressing, esp. when the pediatrician said it was too early to test.
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6coop
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Fri, Nov 27 2009, 10:44 am
| the world's best mom wrote: | | So there might be somthing to my theory, even if it's only correct 90% of the time. |
DD right-handed with amblyopia in right eye and esotropia in left eye!! How does that fit in?
We have to patch my 5 yr. old DD's right eye 3 days a week to address the weak muscle and crossing of her left eye, and patch her left eye 4 days a week to address the weak eyesight in her right eye. Does anyone else have to do this?
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chocolate moose
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Fri, Nov 27 2009, 11:20 am
Yes, but as my daughter did not progress, it became patching every waking minute, and continued until she was 8. It was very hard.
But BH it worked and she has vision in that eye now.
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skcomputer
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Fri, Nov 27 2009, 4:05 pm
| amother wrote: | Usually with Amblyopia there is no option to do surgery. It is NOT a muscle problem. Rather, it is just that the brain stops using the amblyopic eye to see. So when we patch his good eye, he is FORCING his brain to use that eye. Baruch Hashem, my 5 year old has gone from being halfway legally blind in one eye to almost 20/30 vision. Also, supposedly this is something that can only be treated when child is young and still developing his eyesight until about age 10.
He really is a champ with patching. Originally he needed to patch 6 hours which was hard, but now he only needs to do 2 hours.
The difference is that when he was younger he wasn't conscious about the patch and would go outside to play. Now, he refuses to even open the door when someone knocks lest someone see him like this.
I used Dr. Muchnick in Manhattan. |
Our experience is the same. We're on the other side of this now - my son was diagnosed around age 7 and patched until age 10. He's almost 16. He developed enough eyesight in the weak eye to test at 20/30 with glasses. He started contacts at age 11 very successfully and now has fairly stable vision.
Important Note: the amblyopia in our family seems to be a genetic defect. After my son was diagnosed, my father-in-law said told me that his father had the same problem. My niece was diagnosed first, but we didn't get the connection until my son was diagnosed. I contact all of the cousins who were descended from my husband's grandfather and encouraged them to be tested - sure enough, another cousin was diagnosed, but very early. I strongly encourage everyone to have their kid's eyes professionally checked by a pediatric eye specialist if you can. Our insurance covered it. The in-school screenings may not work (my son told me later he faked them). You only have until age 10 (age of visual maturity) to get the weak eye to work.
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Blueberry Muffin
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Wed, Dec 22 2010, 8:40 am
For those of you that ended up needing to correct the problem surgically - how long was the healing process?
Was your child in any discomfort?
How quickly did you see results?
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mominlkwd
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Wed, Dec 22 2010, 9:12 am
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My son is patched for amblyopia and the dr. told us that we could get him the lasik surgery when he is old enough - once the eye stops growing. He could also have lenses which would help much more than patches but he's not that type of kid.
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greeneyes
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Wed, Dec 22 2010, 9:35 am
| Blueberry Muffin wrote: | For those of you that ended up needing to correct the problem surgically - how long was the healing process?
Was your child in any discomfort?
How quickly did you see results? |
My 3 year old daughter had eye surgery in October. The healing process was really not that long, b"h. Her surgery was done early in the morning, so the rest of that day was very difficult. She was sleepy and groggy for several hours, and after the sleepiness passed she was uncomfortable and cranky. Her doctor said that she'd probably be eager to go back to nursery the next day & that would be fine, & she was! We were told that her eyes would be red for a few days afterward (maybe it was around a week, can't remember exactly), so we knew what to expect. She was a bit sensitive to the sun for a few days after the surgery, but other than that the main discomfort was just on the day of the surgery itself. We discussed the surgery with her the night before, so she was prepared for it somewhat, & I think that helped. We saw results pretty much immediately, b"h. I still see a little bit of a problem though, so I will ask her doctor about that at her next check up which is coming up in a couple weeks.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
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