The Truth About Eye Turn or Strabismus Surgery

Are you curious about your options for strabismus or eye turn surgery? Let Dr. Julie explain how this procedure really works and then let her tell you your options.

Vision For Life Works is located in Glen Carbon, IL. We work with children and adults with various vision problems that affect their ability to read, write, comprehend, perform in sports or perform on the job. We utilize Syntonic Phototherapy and traditional in office Vision Therapy to correct these problems and improve quality of life. At Vision For Life, we strive to make every patient experience exceptional. We are very excited when we have the opportunity to dramatically improve our patients lives! Our motto is "Improving Vision Today, Ensuring Success Tomorrow".

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[sammiealvaro]

as a surgical tech that hasn't scrubbed outpatient like surgeries, this was very nicely described ty

[shawnl]

hm. After 4 years of vision therapy (and a lot of $ spent) 1 40 minute surgury corrected my vision. I did a lot of research and the most effective treatment for a "lazy eye" is strabismus surgury. You are only partially correct about the brain controlling the eye. If you have a serious deviation, when you are tired your brain will not correct your vision and you will see double. Surgury puts the eye closer if not exactly in place and relieves the stress caused by constantly physically correcting your deviation. Once surgury is done, your brain will learn to correct any minor deviation back to binocular vision in a matter of weeks. I don't think therapy alone can correct a significant deviation.

[memuff]

Thank you so much this is exactly what I needed to know. Myself and 3 kids suffer from this and the doctor brought up surgery for my 13 year old. I will be getting all the kids vision therapy instead.

[janiceplattor]

I am blind in my left eye do to a retina detachment. Now my eye drifts outward and I am scheduled for this surgery to correct. So my question is will this surgery even take due to me to being about to see out of the eye?

[ProfoGamer]

I have cross eyes and. Am scared about surgery cause I'm young and probably 6 years till surgery does surgery hurt

[amitrana]

Hello mem I have Exotropia I can use brook string exercise??

[verxizy]

How does eye therapy works and does it fix’s ur right eye because my right eye goes outter and people get freaked out

[DavidMoralee]

Hey, Thanks for your video explanation. ive had this Op twice now, once when 8yrs, and again at 19yrs. My eye has again turned outwards, is there other options rather than surgery

[amandapetersen]

my 3 year old just went to a pediatric eye specialist yesterday because his right eye drifts outward pretty far. they said that in his right eye he is a -1.5 so that he needs glasses, and the Dr. said that he needed to have the surgery done to correct the outward turning of the eye. is there anything else that can be done other than surgery to help that or is it best to get it fixed now? I'm a nervous wreck and the surgery is 2 weeks away. we are trying to research as much as we can before hand

[knenohammond]

how long wearing glasses will it take to correct the eye problem

[RedHatGuyYT]

I have this. Getting surgery soon. Ugh.

[Fluffy]

I had my strabismus surgery on the 26 of April 2017. I now have a cyst on the out corner of my left eyeball. I saw my surgeon and he said if it doesn't clear up in 3 weeks with antibiotic ointment he prescribed me post-op then he'd have to take care of it? what dose that mean?

[teamridgeback]

I'm cross-eyed as it gets. As well, glaucoma is at play in the same eye. So, in three weeks I'm having this procedure. I'm sure hoping it works because looking at the world with crossed eyes hasn't been fun.

[sagarrajpal]

My surgery is done pleass tell me last day while looking the mireor i cant see any result plwase by telling me who falt it is i can send you the pictures

[hadezmage]

Does the "eye turning" hurt? post-surgery, how they may turn upwards, downwards, or sideways. Also, you say it is common, but how common? My doctor never warned me about this.

[tx]

Say if I did the surgery during school time, would I be allowed to participate in PE?

[jz]

My son is 4 years old and has a muscle weakness in both eyes. I went to 2 doctors and both said he needs this surgery. The difference between them one said i should do it now it gives a better result, and the other said i should wait until 8 years old or older. What would your advice be? Should i do it now at 4 years old or wait

[shivanandkavalla]

Does crossed eye will get correct by doing lasic surgery or normal surgery?

[hhhoshiii]

will your eye look different or weird after surgery.
If so how long will it last and is it noticeable

[gloriafritz]

can you still do vision therapy if you already had surgery 2 weeks ago ?