CROSS EYED? What is Strabismus - (Types, Causes, Treatments) Eye Doctor Explains 

Do you have strabismus? Maye a family member? What has been your experience?

I was born with my right eye turning in. It was called “lazy eye” back then. I started wearing glasses at age 4. I had surgery at age 7 to straighten the eye but there was never any patching so I continued to favor the other eye. Consequently, I tend to look out of one eye or the other. Now in my 60s, I have monovision which works well for me. My left eye is set up for distance and my right eye for reading. When I look out of one eye, the other eye “drifts” making me look crazy!

I had amblyopia before age five which went untreated. I am now blind with strabismus in my left eye. I've had two strabismus surgeries plus three rounds of botox in my left eye muscles. After the first surgery, my eye eventually returned to it's old position. What strabismus has taught me is that people are cruel, ugly, and small minded.

I’m so excited to see this video! I was born with severe strabismus and have had 4 surgeries to try and correct it! It’s finally at a point where it isn’t so noticeable (after 27 years of life), but I still have to wear glasses.

people's stigma and bullying is truly unbearable

Just had surgery for my 3 year old daughter’s strabismus! Super easy procedure and her eye is fully aligned with the other eye now!

I finally had strabismus surgery three years ago (at 24). It has done wonders for my confidence.

I had a cataract removed when I was 2 years old and now have ambylopia. The bullying was relentless when i was younger and had a huge impact on how I am as an adult.

I actually had strabismus for years from staring at phones and screens and reading up close and I spent a year just looking distant and giving my eye the comfort to move and now I don’t need any prism lenses but I’m still fairly myopic just not having a eye turn anymore

Thank you for this video. I had an Acoustic Neuroma brain tumor removed 2 years ago. As a result of the surgery, I developed severe double vision, it wasn’t till a year later that I finally had strabismus surgery to correct the problem. It was so wonderful to see normal once again.

I hate having strabismus. I have next to no depth perception. I had surgery twice as a kid. And still have problems with it but had a horrible exp with my lay surgery 30 years ago. Hate hate hate it. You can ALWAYS tell when your eye does it whether changing the eye you focus with or by people's facial expression. One of the diseases ppl still feel like its okay to make fun of/with.

I'm 22 and I've had severe strabismus as a kid and two corrective surgeries growing up yet it's not entirely cured. It sucks getting weird stares and not having the confidence to look at people in the eye more than 3 seconds and my eyes get tired easily. Thankfully my glasses are helping a bit but I still want to get another surgery to get them completely straight...

Its completely worth it watch 16 minute video. I had CI/AI and vision therapy kind of recuperated my brain eye pathway. I could relate to all logical explanations u provided in the video. As i always say, you are a blessing to the human community. Keep rocking doc and plz keep coming up with new topics. U r blessed soul!

I've had intermittent rotational strabismus as long as I can remember. I can usually control it unless I'm tired or reading. When it goes haywire, my double vision goes down, to the left, rotates between 20-40 degrees and moves almost constantly. I've had a couple of different eye doctors try to measure it, but my eyes move so much and so continuously in relation to each other that they give up trying to measure it. They all say that there is no correction available for rotational stabismus, so I just live with it.

Wow I can’t believe this showed up for me! My 2 year old granddaughter has an appointment with a pediatric eye doctor this Tuesday! She has some issues I hope can get corrected. Thank you!

I have esotropia and amblyopia. My parents were wary of an eye surgery on a child in the 1960s and I had eye exercises, patching, and glasses. My eye straightened slightly, but not enough. I was bullied all my life. Clarence the cross-eyed lion, etc. As an adult, my eye straightened a bit more, but now as I hit my early 60s, my eye is way back into my nose again. It started just before I was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, around the start of Covid. It’s just as awful as it was when I was young. I always have a bit of double vision, but the look of it really bothers me. I’ve reverted to not looking at people when I’m talking to them. Outside, I squint closed the esotropic eye out of habit, so people can’t see that eye and so they know which eye to look at. Like Tamatoa the crab in the movie Moana. Ironically, my zodiac is cancer the crab.

i got high and my vision literally went completely blurry it was scary 💀💀

i have strabismus eso since im born. i had an surgery when i was 11 years old and i do not see double but my right eye is way better than my left one and i cannot focus at all with my left one. i also wear glasses with prism in it. when i was small i got bullied a lot because of my eyes and my big glasses so it is an very sensitive topic for me but i am very glad to see your channel because i didnt know that it was still a thing for adults. i live in germany and i mainly see anything about strabismus for the kids age. so im also very insecure when it comes to an new eye test for new glasses for example.. thank you for the video and bringing people together ♥

I had this as a kid, and even had surgery to correct it twice when I was really young. My mom did a lot of work to help fix it and prevent lazy eye....but that didn't really end up working out. I hated the patches and exercises I was supposed to do, and in the end I have basically no depth perception; my right eye's prescription is just a balance since I'm myopic and only really use that eye up-close. At this point it just is what it is, but hey at least I don't look cross-eyed anymore and I have a great excuse for bumping into things lol. 🤷‍♀️

Thank you for your videos! I’m currently training to be an Ophthalmic Technician and they are super helpful

I was born with esotropic eyes, had my first surgery as a 2 year old, then had my 2nd surgery 25 years later on both eyes on the exotropic side. I still struggle a little with reading (my eyes still refuse to cooperate a little) as a 29 year old but my migraines are a lot better.

I did a surgery for my strabismus during 90s wen I was 9. I felts the stitches in my eye for at least a year.

Greetings doctor, can you please talk next about Nystagmus and how treatments go for it. Thanks.

great video! my eldest son was diagnosed with hypertropia on his left eye and mild exotropia strabismus on his right eye, he is 5yr now and has far sighted and astigmatism. now he uses high graded eyeglasses and therapy everyday. Iam praying for his health condition b'coz we don't have enough money for his surgery. thank you dr. for your formative video

I've had alternating exotropia since born. I did a surgery when I was a kid, but several years later, my eyes back to the same condition as before. Plus, I have astigmatism. Recently, I wear prism glasses to treat both exotropia and astigmatism.

Please make a video on prevention of blood clot in retinal artery / Retinal artery occlusion ....

To all who are suffering from strabismus, NEVER GIVE UP! Take careful notes of what you are seeing, far or close distance. Note and draw what you see in notebook. The more details you can describe the double vision, the better the doctors can refer you to the right doctor. Having too much prism will also get go back to double vision after a short while.. I haven't had any luck with a lot of doctors. It can get very expensive with many glasses trial and errors. Visually, my eyes look normal yet I see doubles. Dr. Allen, don't forget partial lens detachment... which can mimic strabismus symptoms.

I've had migraines since I was a teen and 3 years ago, I developed visual snow syndrome and my eyes went slightly out of alignment. My optometrist ended up putting in prism for my glasses, but it doesn't fix everything. I'm still night blind, with half functioning day time vision due to visual snow.

Thank you for this video! A big thing for me is learning some of this vocabulary - explaining all of this to new optometrists has been beyond me, even though I have been wearing glasses for just about 25 years now, so I am very grateful! Currently my vision for sure does not line up into a cohesive image - I mostly use my left, with some (off-center) peripheral vision from my right eye. I have no idea how to approach the prescription process at all anymore. Every time an optometrist asks me "how is this?" when they test lens options I'm so lost, because I don't know what my best outcome should look like anymore. Personally I am a bit grey on my history. I think I had the operation to adjust the muscles in one of my eyes when I was a baby, and again just before school (maybe??), I remember wearing patches on both eyes as well. My mother insists that my current dominant eye is the one that I "couldn't see out of" in the beginning, but the one that my brain ignores now is the one with operation scars, so who knows what happened there. She is also very adamant that I didn't need the first pair of glasses they gave me when I was 7, but I do remember mini-me always thought I saw better with them on when I was reading, and I did a LOT of reading so I just kept wearing them. Being an indoors-kid did me no favors though - I spent way, way too much time with a book or a drawing centimeters from my face, and that habit translated to incessant phone time as an adult, and it did (and is doing) a lot of damage. I went from having OK vision in both eyes (if I opened them one at a time) to such a blurry mess now. One of my biggest struggles with my prescription these last few years is that I don't have the context I need to OK what I'm given, so I kinda just keep what I get. These lenses are too expensive, so I then wear them for too long. I usually find myself delaying to go in until headaches or discomfort start to get to me, to be honest. My last optometrist suggested that my "bad" eye get a weaker prescription, but in hindsight I am not sure if the visit and the way I tried to articulate my problems went well. I told her that my brain ignores my right eye, I was asking questions about my aesthetic concerns about the weak eye's lens continuing to be so visibly double as thick as the other in the frames I wanted to try, I mentioned headaches and aches on the right side - and her solution was a weaker right lens. I now know that I 100% underestimated how much I do rely on this eye for peripheral vision and I should have worded things differently. Wow have I had an adjustment with balance and depth perception wearing a lower prescription on one side. The weak eye itself is less mobile these days, and I'm worried. I noticed the decline even before this adjustment to my prescription. I don't sit down and test how things are going with my right eye until something feels extra off, but somewhere over the last 15 years I slowly lost what feels like half that eye's quality of vision. Apologies to kid-me who was getting it right, adult-me's bad habits prevailed. I flat out spend too much time reading books on my tiny phone screen. 8 hour stretches habitually for 15 years is dumb, kids, don't do it. I have no idea what to do going forward. Do I go back to my last optometrist and try to explain better, or do I try to save up for an eye specialist? Who knows how many bad prescriptions I've worn for years at a time because I don't know what I'm seeing? If there's a machine that can scan my eyes and pop out the prescription I need wow do I need it, I always just settle for what seems OK-est at the time, and that seems increasingly foolish.

Thank you doctor, I was operated on for high myopia in 2018 by lasik excemer and since 2021 I have been suffering from convergent strabismus knowing that before the operation I had no strabismus.

I’ve had strabismus all my life, had my first surgery at 5 years old, my optician wants me to go for it again so I’ve had the Botox injection to assess the squint before surgery. Growing up in the 80’s & 90’s you got bullied as kid who looked different and it does impact you growing up, certainly affected my confidence when I was younger.

I am South African, had strabismus surgery ( left exotropia) on the 19 June this year (2024). Still healing but already feeling great, lost count how much I checked myself on the mirror 😊

I had this as a child. It was so bad that when I concentrated on anything my left eye would go completely white It was pointing inwards towards my nose. They put a patch over my right eye for years but it didn't help.so at 13 years d they operated on my eye to straighten it. There's still a slight twist in my eye. Now I have a very lazy left eye. The vision in my left eye is like extra peripheral vision 😂

I was born in 1985 with infantile strabismus. My left eye became lazy so I mostly used my right eye. I had surgery when I was 2 to correct it but it didn't work. I also wore a patch as a child but that didn't work. I was so self conscious of it as a child and teenager that I developed social anxiety. I had eye surgery again at 17 and 18 and it was finally corrected. I still can't really see out of my left eye much but I'm more confident and can look people in the eyes ever since then. On top of that I have severe myopia and congenital nystagmus. Would love to see a video on nystagmus.

I’ve had since I was around 2 ish. Sadly my parents didn’t take care of my eye health since I lived in another country. Finally when I started getting treatment in the US, I ended up gagging eye surgery which in the end only helped make the eye not look turned all the way inwards. This was done when I was around 13-14. I’m now 23 and I’m thinking of revisiting my eye surgeon to see if anything else can be done. PS can you explain in a video about what us with strabismus/amblyopia see like compared to someone with 2 good eyes (having no depth perception/monovision) thanks!!!

When I was younger, an optometrist from LensCrafters wondered if I had lazy eye in both eyes. Something about how my eye muscles were weak? And she changed my prescription to fix this somehow.

I gotta say your eye and shirt coordination is awesome. BTW, thanks for the info...

I have lived my whole life with strabismus amblyopia and I am getting strabismus surgery in February to fix it. My doctor was able to get me dialed into 20/15 vision but now my left eye turns when it used to not do this because i have a compensative eye prescription. So much to the point where I didn't even know I had strabismus. I can't wait to fix it. At this time when I focus with my right dominant eye it focuses perfectly but my left eye turns in severely. I want to correct with vision therapy after this surgery and perhaps ICL's to fix my strong hyperopia.

I had a stroke in 2011 and after that, began having difficulties focusing both eyes while driving. A year later, had doctor diagnose as torsional strabismus 3-1/2 degrees. It's gotten progressively worse. I cannot read books and watching foreign films with subtitles is discomforting. Problem worsens later in the day and by evening it's impossible to gain fusion. Wife noticed my head tilts to the right because my crooked eye is dominant.

Yes the strabismus is complex issue also the treatments are variety such as vision therapy、prism glasses and eye surgery. Thank Dr.Allen for very clear explanation on strabismus.

My eyes move sometimes when I want it too, hard to explain, it’s very rare that it moves uncontrollably. When the eye move in the side it has double vision. I had it for a couple months untreated, cause my doctor said my vision isn’t needed to be corrected.

I was terrified when my vision suddenly went crazy. Double vision and all that. I'm 34, and this started about a year ago. I just got prisms and they really do help a lot, though the eye still turns in. I saw many eye doctors who just said I was too old to help with this. Oof. I'm so glad I'm not alone!

I found this in a search about cyclotropia, but I didn't really hear it mentioned. Everything I've found is so confusing to me! You explain things so perfectly. I would love to hear your explanation.

Video timestamp 9:44 lists causes of acquired strabismus but omits cataract surgery. That can change the dominant eye of a person who had myopia all his life. Both eyes are free to move anywhere but the non-convergence problem persists probably for distant vision. The first response is to squint or close the weak eye to eliminate double vision. This convergence problem must be overcome by using the eyes correctly. Either eye crosses whichever eye is pointed at what is looked at. 12:40 talks about surgery for adult strabismis but I don't think that applies here because which eye would get the prism since either one crosses.

My left eye crossed badly when I was 4 years old. Due to very difficult family situations, it was ignored. I suffed badly from bullying, was excluded from social activities. Finally, at age 17 I ASKED my parents if I could please have my eye operated on. What 17 year old asks such a thing? I was suffering badly. My eye was operated on and is very much better looking, but the vision is gone.

I don't have strabismus but I have something called heterophoria which I think is a bit like strabismus but compensated by the eye muscles. Usually I don't have any symptoms at all, but sometimes when I'm really really tired my eyes drift apart and give me double vision.

My parents noticed at around 4 years old if I had a long day my left eye would turn in. After a good night's sleep it would be straight. Fortunately they took me to the eye doctor asap and he fitted me with glasses and that fixed the problem immediately whether I had eye strain or not. Than of course I moved onto contacts which has the same result. I don't know if getting glasses at such a young age possibly retrained my brain or eye not to turn but it never turns in on its own even if I don't wear any corrective lenses for a long period of time. Also I have good vision in my left eye. +.50. Astigmatism in both eyes nowadays thou. 🤣 But I'm thankful that my parents didn't wait to get me seen by the eye doctor.

I'm 46 years old. I have had nystagmus all my life. The right eye also goes inward, unless I blur my vision. That seems to straighten it out when looking at people. I still have trouble looking people in the eyes. My optometrists have never given me any hope, to rectify any of these issues. Lincoln. Ontario, Canada.

As I am staring to play online games DOTA overnight during college years my eyes still works well, but then as I work as graphic designer that take too much time focusing on the monitors everyday, that's the time I experience Crossed Eyes. Now I know I am ESO, as I look far and focus my right eye gives up and going in, when I look near like 1 meter away from me my both eyes are good. watching this video makes me to get a prism glasses to cure this double vision I got. Thanks you for the information Doc Allen. Gotta watch more of your videos ☺️

Thanks for making this video! I have esotropia. I've needed glasses since I was a kid but for a long time my eye turn only happened what I was tired and I thought it was normal for people who needed glasses. Eventually it started happening more and more often, and then a couple of years ago (I am 27 now) it started happening frequently enough that I realized maybe that wasn't a normal thing for eyes to do and looked into it. By the time I was finally able to see an ophthalmologist it was happening basically all the time when I look at things further away. They said that potentially I always had an eye turn and my brain was better at controlling it when I was younger but it's just difficult to control it now. They prescribed me a fresnel prism and I'm waiting for surgery, but it's been 6 months so far waiting. The prism does help a lot even though having such a blurry sticker on one eye is pretty annoying. The prism is 20 diopters, but I remember they said that's less than my actual eye turn. Both sides are capable of working together up close, so I'm hopeful that surgery will help, whenever I can get access to it!

I had an operation to correct my strabismus when I was 15 years old, now it's back 🥺 I am 45 years now.

My oldest child had strabismus from birth and the doctor said the surgery is the only solution so we listened to him. Unfortunatly, surgery was only cosmetic. Although her eyes are aligned, she still only sees on one eye, and her vision deteriorated owfully. My youngest child was also born with strabismus but this time we decided we didn't want surgery, we wanted orthoptic exercises instead, and after seven years of practicing his eyes are aligned and his vision is preserved. So, surgery would never again be my choice.

I had surgery to correct strabismus when I was about 12 or so. And it worked for about 21 years, but then I needed to have it done again in my 30's, but it's been almost 3 years now, and it's crossing again, so we're trying prisms now. I think the prescription needs a slight adjustment, but at least the migraines are gone, it's just slightly blurry.

I was diagnosed with Esotropia stribismus in July of 2023 and I'm 52 years old and have no family history. Went to go see a neuro ophthalmologist on February 5th, 2024 and after the examination the neuro ophthalmologist told me that prism glasses will not work as I have more than a mechanical issue and will need surgery and after my surgery which takes place this July 2024

I started watching your videos last year when I was told I had dry eyes. I looked up this video because my wife just started seeing double this month. She has had a CT scan, an MRI, and seen a specialists for double vision, but so far have not found the reason. She is in her 50s and always had great eyes. Only in the past couple of years has she started wearing reading glasses. She sees another specialist in two weeks. In the meantime, she is wearing a patch. Thank you for the info, it helps, even though we still don't know.

Having this makes social interactions very difficult, unless you wear dark glasses. :/

Great video! When I was a kid, I had a very severe congenital alternating esotropic strabismus, surgically addressed at age 23 with excellent cosmetic result. Diplopia after, yes, but with good suppression on both sides, and now at age 61, I'm using a +2.75 contact in OD as a monocular approach to presbyopia. I was always able to alternate very easily, which is why I never developed any amblyopia or really any anisotropy at all, and so even now, many years after the eso was fixed, I find using OS for far vision and OD for near very natural and I'm able to do that with little diversion.

I have an motorcycle accident, and that accident , turned my right eye into a esotropia sight, it almost 5 months since the accident. my background is i have a normal eyesight since i born and i dont have a family problem on eyesight, my blood is normal . But now it turns esotropia since the accident i got my xray on my head at the front and back, because they crack at front with 3 inches and back with 4 inches, these are the problems that i have for now. I hope there is something i can do to get it back to normal, Thank you and God bless.

pretty much for me I am just able to cross eye I don't have eye problem.I can just move my eyes :)

Vision Therapy can help a lot for exotropia

Strabismus in child appeared usually because of iregular astigmatism that makes blurry image more on one eye and brain avoids that image

I hate when people do that with their eyes when they don’t have Strabismus… You should know better it still hurts to this day when I see anybody making fun of somebody with a lazy eye or cross eyed I take it very very precious and you being a doctor not cool

I am born with strabismus , now I am 22 year old and people around me are noting it very frequently feeling very bad about that

I've had strabismus since my birth. I underwent 3 surgeries. I was wondering, do you think that it's better to wear contact lenses (and especially hard contacts) or glasses for people who have? strabismus? Anyway thanks a lot for this very interesting video

I ended up having Strabismus show up after recovering from Covid.

According to my parents, I had strabismus surgery when I was a baby, and then again when I was in kindergarten, mostly due to the fact that I was born with hydrocephalus. I got my first pair of glasses when I was seven, and then I got my first pair of bifocals a few years ago. I was also diagnosed with visual impairment around the time I reached upper elementary school, and had some magnifiers to use, even though I didn't use them much.

Your eye color, STUNNING

Hey Doc! Make a video on methods or techniques of eye examination! It would be helpful and cool👍

I have infantile strabismus (exotropia) . I had surgery when I was two years old and it worked up until I was 8/9 years old. Of course I've dealt with teasing and bullying but around age 12 I got glasses and they improved the eye turn tremendously to the point that it was barely noticeable and most people didn't know that I had it . It was unnoticeable up until age 34 , my glasses prescription was stronger and almost immediately my left eye started to turn outward when I put the glasses on and now my eye turn more often and sometimes my right eye will turn as well. Last year I Lasik to improve my farsightedness and astigmatism. I've been told that it's not necessary to do strabismus surgery but when I inquired about prisms I was told that it was not recommended. I'm not sure about what treatment is necessary for me now that I'm 38 years old

yes please make a video about brown syndrome

Thank you for very helpful explanation doctor!

I have strabismus that can't be corrected in anyway and it's like living in hell, really hope there is more medical advancement in this area in the coming years

Thank you very much! Our two year old has an eye that turns in when she speaks. We'll be taking her in ASAP based on dude's recommendation. Really helpful 🙏

Biggest fan from India 😍😍😍 I'm a optometrist sir

I had a sudden onset of it at work. Scared the Bejeezus out of me. I was working at the computer when suddenly, I could see the computer in front to my with one eye and the filing cabinet to my right with the other eye. I panicked and called my co-workers over. I had to get one of them to dial my eye doctor. She said that it was likely caused by eyestrain from spending a long time on my computer. She told me to relax, to rest my eyes and to go home. She said if it didn’t resolve, to go to the Eye Institute as an emergency patient. Within a few minutes, my vision returned to normal. I did go home and rested my eyes. It happened again once but returned to normal just by relaxing and resting my eyes. I worked full time on my computer so learned to take frequent breaks to rest my eyes.

I have estropia and I can say all of this is true.

thank you dr. allen for your very informative video

Does lack of sleep before an eye exam will significantly affect the results?

I have ted and have to use a prism, it’s awful and I’ve been getting Tepezza infusions still no change so far. It’s really affected my wellness.

This video was so informative. I learned I have an Exo.... my right eye is dominant and my left eye drifts outward. Born with really bad eyes. Had surgery at the age of 1 years old on my eyes. I've always wondered how surgery to correct my eye would be. It's bothered me as a kid. Being made fun of but as an adult I don't give a $h!t. I love the reactions of people who notice. I recently had an eye exam and soon get 2 pairs of glasses. I'm wearing contacts that shouldn't be in my eyes. They are done, trash, one month of use, 4+ months later. Old glasses broke and because of Covid in my town I'd still have to wait for an appointment. Now C19 is pretty much over... it's easier to do everything. Thank you for teaching me about my own eyes.

I had strabismus eye muscle surgery, when I was 8 years old. It left my eye looking uneven. I've been doing blinking exercises to try and strengthen the eye muscles. But i think lasik surgery of both eyes could potentially fix the problem. So the weaker eye isn't working harder. I think both eyes need need to work together simultaneously.

When I was born, my parents were told that I was blind. One eye turned in and up, the other in and down. I also had nystagmus. I eventually grew out of the nystagmus which we were told couldn’t happen. I was also nearsighted with amblyopia in the right eye. I have used drops, and occlusion therapy on an off throughout my life. I had surgery at 14 when my doctor felt it needed to be done for cosmetic purposes. He originally scheduled to do the right eye as it was the weaker of the two. The night before he changed his mind and did the left. I don’t know why the sudden change. It worked well enough that my right eye would only wander when I was tired. Another surgery was performed on my right eye at 35. He could not correct my nearsightedness enough for driving. Now at 66 the right eye drifts out constantly. I have never had stereopticon vision. I was bullied as a child for this. I became very shy and anxious. The surgery at 14 really helped me with this. I still have difficulty looking others directly in the eyes. I am outgoing but still maintain my shyness. The difficulties with vision are one thing, the lack of depth perception causes us to trip, fall, bump into things or repeatedly need to reach for objects. It makes us clumsy. I was terrified of driving. The emotional scars can be just as painful.

I was born with strabismus and so were my two other brothers. They both had to get surgery and I used and eyepatch, I wear glasses now and I used the eye drops. My dad also got it and we found out it is most likely genetic.

WONDERFULL LECTURE VERY SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION ON SRABISMUS.

I have had strabismus since I was young but didn't know what it was other than lazy eye. In my 20's I was recommended to get surgery on my eyes, which terrified me. I started to have to explain in interviews that I was focused on the person, even though my eyes didn't look like it because of feedback from past interviews that I didn't seem focused enough. Finally I had a consultation for surgery and did get it performed at the age of 32 and it helped, although I ended up with an allergic reaction to one of the eye drops and didn't realize something was wrong until almost a week later. I just really hate the connatation that media and literature give to lazy eye. In the year or two leading up to getting the surgery, I had constant and severe head aches from one eye working overtime, it literally would rarely ever be focused. Also finding people who say surgery is only for aesthetic purposes, it is somewhat true but also fuck them because it severely impaired my vision at times.

I one time, when I was about 6. Learned how to do a cross eye on purpose. I really just used it to help me gaze off or with nothing at all. My mother once caught me doing it and thought I ended up getting it myself.

I was not born with strabismus, I had an accident when am 9yrs old cane flogged one of my eye and instantly my vision was bloody, after taken me to a local pharmacy with some injections, drugs and eyes drops, after some weeks of treatment the bloody vision turn to a very dark sight, and since then I started developing strabismus, and it really affecting my social life. I have went to some eyes clinic but no solution, pls advise me

My child has recently been diagnosed with strabismus. I don’t know the pulpillary distance for his glasses. I’m assuming it needs to be centered on the lenses. Nobody will help me figure this out and I wasn’t given the distance

Dr Eye Health... My son is now 10. We are 18 months deep in eye therapy and about $15K-$20K invested, including travel every week. From the age of 2-3 his eyes started crossing in. Only one eye at a time, but he can switch both back and forth (eso) as you explained. What do we do??? In this video you said that surgery will probably be needed, but then said that surgery only fixes the cosmetic part, not the actual problem. Therapy hasn't worked, surgery won't work... Now what? Honestly... Now what? I could really use a reply to this, you certainly have explained all of this much better then our Doc, I would really like to hear what you have to say... My wife and I are very committed to making this happen for our son. However, we want to avoid surgery at all cost.

I was born with my right eye being crossed. I remember my doctor gave me glasses to correct it.

videos. Would you please talk next about scleral senses and the various fitting measures such as Eyeprint Pro? Thank you!

I was borne with Severe strabismous, I had surgery when I was a baby and again when I was a teen. As a kid I was asked if I was blind alot or told that I looked freeky. I still struggle to "see" out of my bad eye though glasses have helped. I've been to the binocular vision clinic in Berkeley and told I will probably never have true binocular vision though because my brain is to used to ignoring my bad eye.

I have a problem with my eyesight, I had an accident I was badly hurt because I was run over and I know I had a brain injury and with the COVID problem I’m still waiting to be seen, this happened nearly 7 years ago, I’m seeing double and my eyes are dry and sore, you can’t see the double vision but using this screen and trying to read a book is not good. Surgeons thought I wouldn’t make it, but I have and they are thrilled, I can’t walk as yet but one day I shall. I am 70 years old and I still feel young, how about that then? Thank you doctor, I appreciate your videos x

At about age 5 I had the eye surgery. My parents couldn’t keep me wearing the eye patch which clipped to my glasses. My brain ignored the “bad” eye but I had perfect vision in the good eye. I’ve always wondered which came first, the bad eye vision or the brain causing the bad vision. I became a professional pilot and the aviation medical examiners always had trouble understanding all this. Luckily I was granted exemptions and flew crop dusters and helicopters ten feet above the ground around trees and wires until I retired at age 67. I didn’t wear glasses regularly until about 45, for reading. 👀

Am 29 and I have always had crossed eyes since childhood but I have never had issues with my sight

Is it inherited too

The thing is I was bore without cross eyes, but for some reason I have figured out away to make myself turn in to a cross eyed person and as for same I can control it where I can change it back!!

I have something similar that I developed later in life (late 30's). My eyes look fine until I put on mascara (a real difficulty because I cannot see close up), then the eye I'm not putting make up on, the opposite eye goes VERy cross-eyed. My opthamolist said it will continue to get worse over time because my eyes are tired and I might go cross-eyed full time at some point. It's not a great thing to look forward to. I'm not sure if this video applies to me. I haven't met anyone else who has my particular problem.

I have an eye that wanders up and out, especially when I am tired. This results in double vision, but not side by side but one view up and one down. I have had multiple doctors that have told me there is nothing to do about it, but I haven't asked in a few years. Is there anything new? I do have a prism in my glasses, but I can't see to read so they have to go off and on. Bifocals are the not possible because the wandering only occurs in the afternoon. Thanks for your very informative videos.

Hello Doc. I'm began to use contact lenses.. I watched your videos to get ideas for caring them. You mentioned that the persons wearing contacts has chance of infection. Is there is any eye drops to prevent the possible infection? So we can use it periodically to avoid the infection.