Amblyopia - Causes, Symptoms, Treatments & More…

Amblyopia, or "lazy eye," is the most common cause of visual impairment in children. It happens when an eye fails to work properly with the brain. The eye may look normal, but the brain favors the other eye. In some cases, it can affect both eyes. Causes include
• Strabismus - a disorder in which the two eyes don't line up in the same direction
• Refractive error in an eye - when one eye cannot focus as well as the other, because of a problem with its shape. This includes nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
• Cataract - a clouding in the lens of the eye
It can be hard to diagnose amblyopia. It is often found during a routine vision exam.
Treatment for amblyopia forces the child to use the eye with weaker vision. There are two common ways to do this. One is to have the child wear a patch over the good eye for several hours each day, over a number of weeks to months. The other is with eye drops that temporarily blur vision. Each day, the child gets a drop of a drug called atropine in the stronger eye. It is also sometimes necessary to treat the underlying cause. This could include glasses or surgery.
NIH: National Eye Institute

[Lucky_ness]

At 22 years old I finally found out what's been wrong with my eyes. Lmao I also finally found relatable comments, hi brothers and sisters!!

[trippy]

I have it in my right eye, and my vision in it is the quality of my peripheral vision in my other eye. Only really useful for peripheral vision.

[SuperAfrofreak]

I wonder how its to see with both eyes like everyone else. :)

[olivial]

I had this when I was a kid but had two surgeries, and though I still need glasses for an astigmatism, my eyes are pretty perfect now

[eeshhall]

I was born with amblyopia. Oh it's so annoying

[charneclarke]

My one eye looks very tired compared to the other eye...

[MusialaUNIVERSE]

I am amid of 11 years and I have a lazy eye






Please pray that anybody don't suffer with this disease

[rahulsawhney]

Can anyone tell me which surgery i should take for refective index error lazy eyes

[leennavarre]

i wish i could find a way to treat my right eyes ugh it's so annoying i always got tease by society for having this eyes

[tamekabarnes]

So I was born with amblyopia but then we always called it crossed-eyed. I recently found out I had amblyopia when I went to the eye doctor. I was in the process of getting my CDL to drive the school bus I couldn’t pass the vision test so therefore I can’t move forward with the job🥺

[thesnare]

I've always wanted normal binocular vision, we tried the patch but I resisted (like lots of kids do) I've heard of several things, magnetic stimualation of the brain, vision therapy, neurovision correction (if that's any different from vision therapy) spending a week in the dark, anesthetizing the lazy eye's retina, I hope there will be a cure within my lifetime. I can see why it's one of the hardest problems to fix as it's neurological, even straightening the eye won't work if it didn't develop normally.

[percivalgebashe]

I recently found some articles on using anaglyph glasses. Apparently, lazy eye it's not an issue with sight initially (in most cases) but rather an issue with the brain processing the information in receives from the one eye. Which then leads the brain prioritising the other eye, which in time weakens the other.

So the idea with the anaglyph glasses and it's games is to get the eye used to working together with the other. Correction with glasses comes afterwards.

I'm also suffering from amblyopia (notice that I've covered my one eye in my display picture. This is because it stands out in still images, and I'm very uncomfortable with it)
I've ordered a pair of these glasses and hope that they will work.

I hope to give y'all pleasant news a year from now

As I write this, it is 06/06/2022 19:47

[poonamfauzdar]

I have it in my right eye. It sucks have to wear glasses all time though I can see perfectly. But If I don't wear them there is so much pain. Huh

[Jamesjames-ohmt]

I'm 33 I've had this for aslong as I can remember my eyes are straight it's just my vision, the right eye does all the work my left eye is pretty useless everything is blurred I cant read with it at all, I can see colours ect just very distorted

[chriskissel]

Really helpful! Thank you for the video!

[Lucky_ness]

Lol I thought I was special all these years

[mallorielouann]

I've been in glasses because of amblyopia since I was one years old. I'm 17 now, and I've been told for years by many doctors that my eyes will improve, but I can hardly see out of one eye. Even with my glasses on, I can't see well out of it. You always hear that if you catch a lazy eye at a young age, and you always wear your glasses, this is something people grow out of. Why is this not going away for me? Are my glasses suppressing my eyes and stunting any improvements? It makes me wonder if my eyes rely on this illusion of glasses where it doesn't even bother to strengthen itself. But if I don't wear glasses I feel a pressure in my eyes, then I can feel one slowly drifting...Idk what to do. I'm so sick of glasses. I'm afraid I'm gonna be stuck like this forever.

[pranshutiwari]

I have a little squint always wants to join defence I can see properly...I m physically very fit but I m happy bcoz I m studing btech in cs from will serve my nation one day.happy ... confident

[Minarreal]

*Me asking my mom as a 10 yo*
- Hey, mom, I see terrible with my left eye
- Yeah, it's normal, everyone has a lazy eye

*My ophta after I'm finally able to afford an appointment as a 25 yo*
- You should've treated this way earlier
- ffs

[Anti-SlabBear]

When I wear a patch do I wear it with or without glasses