Hi Dr. Wong, I had them both. For me, "exercise ", had an effect. I totally "Control " the situation. But you helping your three children with prevention, most certainly does work. I look for the day, when we are all offered prevention, to protect our distance vision - for life! Thanks, Otie
Thank you. My eye doctor told me that eye exercises don't work and gave me glasses which I promptly lost (subconsciously on purpose). I really believe I can heal my eyesight. Thank you?!
Dr. Rupa Wong, Thank you very much for such clear and simple exercises! ☀ We do eye fitness using a browser. This provides eye relief for those who forget to take breaks at work. We're inspired by your approach and are thinking about what exercises we could offer our users too!
@@DrRupaWong Nice video.When I was 10 I suddenly went cross-eyed. right eye turned out. I had another surgery when I was 21. And now after 21 years my right eye is pulling out again. If I let it go. 30th may i go to the ortopthist. I can keep my eye straight, but it's so tiring! do you think it would be better if they corrected my eye again with eye muscle surgery?
Its beyond expensive id recommend getting medical insurance that covers it youll waste thousands of dollars i paid 180 a session.. then when you cant afford it anymore you wasted your money for nothing gotta love American healthcare
Hi ya, I have diplopia in 1 eye (left) and when i look to the right my left eye don't move to the right fully but stays central therefor giving me double vision. Is there an exercise for this please? 🙏
Dr. Wong, I had strabismus surgery 1.5 mos. ago for esotrpia. For 2 weeks my eyes looked aligned and then my left eye which was the least pulled became drifting out as exotropia. It has been like that for 2.5 weeks. What happened? I've been hearing about vision therapy. Is that eye muscle stretches? Can that work for me? How about this video of pencil push-ups? Please help me know. Thank you!
Thank you i have exotropia and i need to get eye muscle surgery because my eye muscle keeps detacting going misaligned in the left eye muscle and i will try the eye exercises with the pencil push ups thank you😊
Long ago I had a freak retinal hemorrhage that pretty much covered the fovea of my non-dominant eye resulting in a spider vein cloud. Many years later I started having double vision. The glasses prescribed do not work well, so I am beginning to try exercises. Thanks for the clear explanation!
@@DrRupaWong Hi Dr, I would like to say one thing here, I can squint my eye which is similar to what you suggested in the same exercise. I mean, making squint eye will also release the muscles & same result will come. I am right, please reply.
Dr. Rupa, thanks so much for the video. My son is 4 years old and was diagnosed with exotropia about 1 year ago and unfortunately we live in a small town with the only vision therapy is superbooked, still waiting for an opening. My son has the opposite of your description: his left eye wanders out when looking from the distance. In this case is this pen exercise still good?
Hi Dr. Rupa, I always post here, because you are the first Ophthalmologist to help her three children with life-time prevention - of myopia! This is achieved by greatly limiting "accommodation", for all close work. I just wish I had been able to do this when I was growing up.
@@lime3620 Thanks for your question. Assume an, " Emmetropia", eye. Refraction exactly 0.0 Diopters. A kid can easily read a 6 inches ( -6 Diopters, by his accommodation). Atropine limits range of accommodation, to say 2 Diopters. This means the kids AVERAGE accommodation will drastically change, because of Atropine use. This will also prevent the kid from. Reading at 6 inches. A mass of primate data, says it exactly that way. Your LAMP and ATOM studies show this to be true. That is why I support your use of Atropine, before your 3 kids are actually nearsighted. Prevention is our only hope - in the future.
@@lime3620 1) using Atropine as Rupa is doing it. 2) Limit of nose on page reading, as Rupa is doing it. 3) Using a plus lens for close work - as I am doing it.
How the vision therapy/exercises helps In I(XT) ,specifically in adults? Is this correcting the fusion/control only by making the deviation less frequent and more controllable,or it can lower the exodrift amount (PD) over time too?
I'm suffering alot due to my cross eyes. People make fun as well as i lost confidence talking to anyone. Please suggest me doctor if i should go for surgery?
I'm so sorry people make fun of you! That is awful. Keep your head up. I would recommend seeing your local doctor and asking them what your options are.
@@DrRupaWong Exercises used to give temporary relief. I would do them before watching a film with subtitles and it would give me 5-10 minutes of relief. That was a couple years ago. Now my eyes are so misaligned that I cannot get fusion even with exercises before watching a film. I see two rows of text, one that is level and the other slanting uphill about 25-30 degrees now.
Dr. Wong, I recently got my SMILE Surgery and I'm having issue with the sharpness of the things around. Ny doctor advised me to do this exercise. What do you suggest??
Dr Wong, I am such a fan of your youtube channel! Would you be able to please do a video on Korean double eyelid tape? It’s so challenging to find evidenced based research on the safety and efficacy of it! Thank you so much for all your helpful videos thus far(:
@@DrRupaWong Dr Rupa, happy Sunday. I have been doing your exercise every day (although not always consistently) - will it help with presbyopia? I know you mentioned it's for convergence insufficiency but it does sound so much like presbyopia too, where up close is blur but everything is fine at a distance. I am constantly feeling eye strain too. So far I have been doing it for 3 months. Hope to hear your kind reply. Thank you.
Hi Dr. Rupa Wong, Thank you for this video. I was wondering if you have any exercises for people who struggle with the same issue, only when looking into the distance? I got a concussion a year ago, and now I have trouble focusing on things far away. I have been diagnosed with exophobia, but unfortunately I cannot afford proper training, and therefore I am looking for exercises to do at home. Thank you in advance!
I recently went to Spain because a friend of a friend suggested they had tremendous doctors in the eye industry so I decided to get a passport and a plane ticket. When I got to Spain it was difficult since I don’t speak Spanish but found a eye surgeon that spoke English very well. He suggested I get plastic ring cornea laser surgery and that it would improve my eye. Anyways, I was told the surgery would be 12 minutes, the doctor put in the wrong rings inside my eyes so I was told he was going to take them out and had to wait for someone to deliver these new plastic rings for my eyes. The surgery ended up being almost a hour long and he double worked on my eye since he put the wrong rings inside my eyes and had to take them out and put new ones inside my eye. I was in the worst pain of my life after the surgery not sure why. I was told it wouldn’t be mad but my guess was because of the mistake that they made. When I went to see the doctor he said it was a perfect surgery but I had doubts because I lost almost all my vision. I went from having 15-40 sometimes 20-40 to having 20-800 and it was right after the surgery. When I told the doctor that I lost my vision and that my eyes are not working together he began to question me and got agitated it seemed like. He told me I didn’t need glasses so I thought maybe it’s because I just got surgery it’s only been three days after a week I went back he went from saying I didn’t need glasses to saying I’m going to give you glasses and that it would take a year and a half to be better. Im very upset because my gut instinct always told me why would I go to Spain when im an American citizen and america has the best doctors. I should of listened to my gut instinct because I had a feeling something awful would happen to me. This doctor made a mistake when he double worked on my eye but after the surgery said it was a succes, I immediately lost all my vision which made me think back to the surgery and how he made a mistake and began to question this doctor and if he’s mistake is the reason I lost my vision. Because I am not a citizen from Spain I can’t do anything about it so I basically got robbed from the most special thing a human being can have is to have your eye sight to being almost blind it feels like in one eye. My life isn’t the same since the surgery and to be quite honest I want to kill myself because I can’t do anything that I used to do before. My life has become so much harder. I wish there was something I could do. For patients that got surgery for plastic rings to shake your cornea with laser are we able to get LASIK or prk? It would mean so much if someone could suggest something and point me in the right direction. Thank you everyone and hope everyone has a blessed day. God bless everyone
I have esotropia and I'm 16. The doctor told me to do this till may. And I forgot to ask whether I should wear glasses or not while doing this exercise, should I?
@@bankio1883 glad to hear someone the same age has my problem too! And same. It gets to the point where I don't look at people in the eyes at school because they'll make fun of me and ask questions :(
@@issclob no cuz fr, school sucks My mom doesn’t understand and force me to go even tho I don’t want to. Just wanna stay in my room forever. Im glad we can understand each other, no one understands yk
@@bankio1883 righttt my mom would complain why I don't go out much. I have trouble making new friends and I absolutely HATE picture day . I just want to look normal bro 🙁
@@issclob I relate to you so much. It’s really hard to go through something like this, i hope the eye exercises work and everything gets better for you
@@DrRupaWong I had the op wen I was 6 it was very painful and did absolutely nothing to correct it. I’m going to try this as I remember the doctor doing this at my appointments ❤️
Hi Dr Wong I am facing double vision on my left eye of certain area from distance but i can see single when things are closer to mw any help medicine and extra excersises please help me
Hi Dr. Rupa. My 26-month baby having the problem. When she looks far distance, her left eye goes in a different direction. I heard it's a lazy eye. So can u suggest home remedy to resolve this problem? She don't have problem till one yr. After that she is having the problem . Please help me out .
Hello doctor, thank you, but I would like to clarify, can we do this exercise if we have strabismus in one eye? And what other exercises would you recommend for someone with strabismus?
Hello doctor, I was using mobile late night in dark room for 2 hours everyday But one day sudden i saw ghost like image (transparent shadow appear on the top of the word just like a double vision) also blurred vision & eye strain. whenever I use any electronic device like mobile, Laptop, and also reading books for 30 min to 1 hour. After taking rest 30 min problem will disappear. I don't have any double vision problem. when I woke in the morning, the problem persists only after using mobile or laptop or while reading books. I am suffering from this problem since 3 years. I took complete medical checkup, I have done pencil pushups exercise but I didn't get any response.
Dr Wong just to comment that I have been avoiding optometrist for more than 2 years because of the tension created by them. I live in UK and optician shops are owned by Optromesist who make a sale when selling spectacles at a higher prescription than required. If prescription doesn't go up the customer doesn't buy new glasses. For the last 6 years visiting optician shop for eye test they put the prescription up. It was with very great difficulty that I found a very good optometrist who agreed with me and said that at this rate you will be reading a book 8 inches away. She kept my original prescription without any change. Should optometrist be warned that what they are doing is unethical and wrong.
@DrRupaWong Hi Dr. Wong -- your video is a great explanation and demonstration of the pencil pushup technique, so thanks so much for it! I have one question: I wear glasses for reading, and a separate pair for distance. Which one do you recommend for wearing while doing the pencil pushups? Thanks again. 😍
Good day to you mam My son 9 years old have spherical and cylindrical power in right eye...left eye has clear vision...doctor told he has lazy eye....iam ver much depressed upon hearing this... Pls make a video of some effective exercises to be performed at home for lazy eyes as we couldn't offer expensive vision therapy for my son....Eagerly waiting for your kind reply mam....Many thanks in advance Right eye Spherical + 3.00 Cylindrical - 3.50
Hi doctor i have all the syptoms But my eye goes inward not outward? Is that normal? It only happenes when I sometimes look in the mirror or have a video call with somebody. Anyway I am doing your excercise and i hope it will help!
I have occasional diplopia (double vision). When it occurs, mostly when I'm driving, my right eye sees vertical of my left. Very disconcerting. It lasts from about one minute to several minutes. I have to cover one eye with my hand and I then can see fine out of the other eye. Eventually they sync back to normal. I think it occurs if I'm looking at the cars ahead and then I look quickly to the right at something much closer like a car coming out of a side street. I think my right eye quickly focuses on the near object while my left eye is focusing on the far object. Do you have any exercises or suggestions to stop this? If I tilt my head down and look ahead through the top of my eyes it somewhat clears up.
Hello doctor, I survived brain stroke seven years back. Post stroke I had double vision which gradually came down however I still have 5-10% to normalise. Currently I can’t focus immediately and it will take sometime. My eyeballs move slight up and down all the time exactly to say it vibrates. I am not driving since then. Do you have any exercises treat this? Currently I’m 44 and I suffered stroke when I was 37.
Thank you for the question! I was to clarify, are you asking if only the tip should double or the entire pencil? If so, usually, the entire pencil doubles.
@@DrRupaWong one more. For how long can i do this in a day? I have exam coming so i want to be ready as quickly as possible. 1-2 hours total in a day at different times.??
