Just wondering

[apayett24]

does anyone have a stigmatism in their eye and is now having a lazy eye

[Fruitandnutcase]

A lazy eye happens when you are born and you have a big difference between the power in your right and left eyes and the weaker eye doesn't develop. That's why children should have a proper eye test from when they are very young, they can be given glasses or exercises to get both eyes working together.

Astigmatism is a natural defect, same as being long or short sighted and can be corrected with glasses. About 70% of the population have some level of astigmatism, it's not unusual.

One doesn't cause the other.

[ZoBo]

nothing to do with thyroid eye disease

[apayett24]

Thank u

[OUTOFSYNC]

Yes I do.

Have just had photos back from a professional photo session, organised by my Daughter for my 70th Birthday. All I can see is that damn rolled eye!!

This happened in my teens I think. When I got my hormones. I was cross initially when told by Docs. that It would have needed to be corrected by the age of 5 to improve vision. I knew that some of my cousins in Ireland were running around with plaster stuck over a pair of specs to correct lazy eye as a kid. But going back over School photos I could see no signs of it myself, so think it happened in teens like I say. I didn't try to get further help with it until my 30's. Other stresses demanding attention I think. I was told then that I could have it corrected for cosmetic purposes - but that to do so might cause double vision. To avoid this I would need to have an injection to immobilise the eye for a few months, to see what occurred. I looked up this injectable drug, and discovered it was based on a poison. decided not to go ahead. Was worried what harm that poison near my brain might do. LOL That poison is what people are having injected into their faces willy nilly these days for a supposed beauty treatment!! It's called Botox! I am interested that you mentioned it. Since learning more about my thyroid and adrenal dysfunction, I have had a gut feeling that this was probably linked.

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to OUTOFSYNC]

Definitely not thyroid related. I was interested when you mentioned Irish cousins. Back in the 70s I taught in the West of Scotland. The area I was in had lots of very poor families of Irish decent and lots of them had what we call in the UK squints. They ran in families so heredity is part of it but I always felt it could be something to do with diet going back to the potato famines in Ireland all those years before. Lots of the kids wore sticking plaster over one lens of their glasses and yes, if you don't get both eyes working together by 5, 7 at the outside then it's probably too late, anything after that is cosmetic.

PS - I hope I haven't offended anyone because I realise that children of non Irish decent also get squints and also children of Irish decent don't and squints can be caused by other reasons, it was just that I was new,y qualified and keen and this school had many children of Irish decent who also had squints and I wondered if there could be any sort of link, some of those families were incredibly poor, in fact I had never come across poverty like what was in that school, it was quite heartbreaking.

[AnnT49]

I've always read that a lazy eye is present from birth and I remember children wearing glasses with one lens covered when I was a child. We regularly had our eyes tested when in infant and junior school and I was told I had 20/20 vision. YET now have a lazy eye! I've no idea when or how this happened.

I was prescribed glasses for long sightedness when I was in my 20s and there was no mention of it then. I can't remember when I was first told about it by Boots opticians, who were having difficulty prescribing the correct strength lenses, without giving me double vision, whenever they tried to focus the lazy eye. I think I was in my 40s. They have since stopped trying.

Because of Graves, I was under an ophthalmologist for 3 years and although he agreed I had got a lazy eye, he couldn't explain why it hadn't been picked up in childhood. So perhaps they don't know everything about this either.