Lazy Eye/ Amblyopia Symptoms, Causes & Treatments

[bRunOFaN07]

I think that even your above 10 the lazy eye can cure because im 14 and when i exercise my right eye i feel that my lazy eye cures and sees better

[JDivinorumVideo]

Are you supposed to wear your glasses when you do eye exercises or not? I have trouble focusing on things without my glasses.

[ThePETuniverse]

My eye goes to the left when I make quick contact with someone or get nervous. Other than that it doesnt go cross eyed. Im 16 and im about to have surgery to help this. Ive done many things as i was younger which kind of helped. And i was told that if it dont straighten with the first surgery then it will on the second surgery. Becuase its a 80% chance u will fix it with surgery.

[MagicDrumSticks]

It's not possible to treat it in adults. Because after the age of 10, the lazy eye is already underdeveloped. And we know that nerve cells don't grow....

[Thejadjadjad]

@MagicDrumSticks so uncurable after 10 no way ??

[golf23101987]

IN MY EXAM IN OPHTHALMOLOGY PROF ASKED WHAT COMPLICATIONS OF CONGENITAL PTOSIS FUCK...

[CLMinzyDaraBom]

Yeah I'm 13 too...

[crazyconan28]

is it possible to cure a lazy eye if you 13

[JeanEtchepare]

There have been a very few cases where amblyopia has been improved in adults, but this is extremely rare. KEEP ON PATCHING AND EXERCISING

[npgiovani]

so no way of treating lazy eye in adults i guess

[EvganiaMehler]

@npgiovani why not?

[KlashaB12]

@EvganiaMehler im 17 does that mean i cant fix it now? its not too bad its kinda hard to tell if i have lazy eye what can i do? besides surgery?

[wolfrox777]

Damn I have this but I'm 14 and I've been told that if I wear glasses for a year it will be fine.. But i've been wearing them for 3 years...

[wolfrox777]

@wolfrox777 I am actually kind of scared now.....

[5thgr]

lazy eye blows i hate it so much

[254Wacolion]

@5thgr I know how you feel. I've gotten surgery twice and it hasn't helped. I think the only way my eye will look straight is if I can somehow make my vision in my right eye (lazy eye) much better and focus with my left eye. That's the only time my eye looks straight

[Painnnnful]

so to stimulate the that specific center in the brain and develop those neuronal pathways. Surgery corrects cosmetc problems only, but the problem is inthe brain, and only vision therapy and patching can correct that.

[EvganiaMehler]

@Painnnnful thanks for the long explanation! I'm glad you understand and mention that surgery will not get rid of the underlying problems. Unleash Your Vision is a form of holistic vision therapy that anyone can do from home.

[Painnnnful]

in deviated position, that visual nurnal pathway from the fovea to the brain didn't develop. So even whn you put your amblyopic eye in the right position with surger or when you close your domininant eye so the other comes in the correct positon, you will still have a very hard time seeing details, although the image would be falling on the fovea That's b.because that visual neuronal pathway from the fovea to the brain didn't develop. That's why vision therapy and patching are used, so to

[Painnnnful]

doesn't mean blindness, as they like to call it, but only very very poor vision for details, discerning parts of the face (2 words seem to bejust one, in a word you see one letter and the other not, in a singlle letter you may see some parts of it only and the othersseem to not exist). This cowding effect occurs because the vision on the rest of the retina is good, and the rest of the retina is not in main charge of detailed vision. Since the image didn't fall on te fovea when the eye was in

[Painnnnful]

In both strabismic and aniometropic amblyopia one eye becomes dominant. In strabismic amblyopia drifting away also occurs, because the brain didn't learn how to use both eyes together. Both eyes can drift or just one. In the latter case one is dominat and the other is not in the right position so the image does not fall on the fovea (yellow small spot on the retina that is in charge of seeing fine details, read...). Because of that amblyopia occurs, which i most of the cases doesn't mean

[EvganiaMehler]

@Painnnnful the brain got used to the wrong position, but can learn the new position when the root causes are gone and the eyes adjust correctly. It might take a couple of days to get the image clear, but the brain will adapt.

[ayeitsjp]

@Painnnnful i was told you can be cured with laser eye surgery, is that true?

[Painnnnful]

@ayeitsjp Unfortunately you can't :( Laser eye surgery is only effective for correcting nearsightedness (don't know about farsightedness); amblyopia is a completely differnt problem, where there is nohing wrong with the eye, but with the brain in that, that since the eye was in the wrong position in strabismus, the ithe image didn't fall on the central part of the retina-fovea, whose role is to see and distinguish fine detail, such as when reading.. The image, however, DID fall o the rest of the

[Painnnnful]

@ayeitsjp on the rest of the retina, but the rest of the retina 's role is to see bigger things, such as that you see the bed there, but cannot distinguish what those fine distinguish what those fine detailed pictures on the bedsheet are, coz your visual path from the FOVEA (which is like a small dot on the retina) to the visual part of the brain, didn't develop. The pathways from the rest of the retina to the brain have developed, at least most of them. So amblyopia is caused by the wrong p

[Painnnnful]

@ayeitsjp by the wrong position of the eye (strabismus), so that the image doesn't fall on the fove which is the central dot-like part of the retina responsible for seeing fine detail. The other cause of amblyopia canbe refractive problems, which means that one eye is i.e. much more farsighted or nearsighted than the other eye, so the affected eye sees worse and the signal from the fovea to the brain is no a strong However, I guess that this can be "easily" prevented with early child eye

[Painnnnful]

@ayeitsjp child eye-checkups and creening, so that they strt wearing glasses/contacts in time to prevent amblyopia from developing. Worsening of amblyopia in strabismus can be prevented by early patching, but that doesn't mean the older children/adults cannot get better or improve completely.it although more work and patience would probably be beeded. I wish you all the best in your recovery and to keep trying! I believe in the future there are going to be some effective treatments-there were

[Painnnnful]

@ayeitsjp there were already studies with the stimulation of th visual part of the bran with magnetic impulses (something like that), but the results of impved vision in te amblyopic eye lasted for only about 20 min, and only in one patient I think. However, they hop[e that the repeated treatments together with vision therapymight bring (more) lasting results.

[Painnnnful]

Amblyopia developed in the child in the first place, beccause their brains didn't learn how to use both eyes correctly so to get one image (one half comes from the right eye, and one the other from the left eye, so they amatch to form one complete image and this is the only way one can have 3D vision). That is called strabismic amblyopia. If, however, one eye had worse vision (more nearsighted or farsighted than the other) anisometric amblyopia develops. Both can occur together.

[EvganiaMehler]

@Painnnnful because there was some interference to the nervous system that didn't allow the brain-organ connection to develop correctly. If you remove that interference you can cure it at any stage of your life.

[Painnnnful]

There's noting wrong with the muscles in 99% of the caSES, but with the brain wiring. That's a great misconception. Close the dominant eye, and strabismic ey will go into the rgh normal positiont . Vision therapy and patching work by stimulating the part of the brain controlling the affected eye.

[EvganiaMehler]

@Painnnnful the brain wiring is influenced by the structure of the body though, therefore you have to address your body's structure, if you want to correct the weaker eye. The body structure is directly tied into the nervous system, so there is an interference to the nervous system.

Patching only works temporarily because you still have to remove the underlying causes that are responsible as well.

[Foyder]

Hi Evgania Mehler. I have Lazy Eye.. I also have one eye which is better than the other. One eye is -3.75 and the other is about -10.00. My left eye is the better eye of the two, but with my right eye it tends to turns inwards when I get double vision - which i've always had.

Can you help?? Thanks :)

[EvganiaMehler]

@Foyder go to my website and watch the free video series there for a better understanding.

[Buckeh]

Amblyopia cannot be cured after childhood (~11-13 years at latest) because the neural connections(which are directed away from the amblyopic eye to the good eye) cannot be altered after this period.

No amount of exercise will fix this after the body has stopped developing these neural connections, so adults cannot be cured of amblyopia.

Incorrect information! Probably a scam to get people to buy something

[EvganiaMehler]

@Buckeh how can you be so sure? what's your experience with curing Amblyopia? Why do you think it's a scam?

[Buckeh]

@EvganiaMehler

Because this is what real research indicates.

[EvganiaMehler]

@Buckeh what is the "real" research? the one paid for by an industry that makes a damn good living on glasses & surgery?

let me ask you this: if all the ophthalmic research was so right, how comes that glasses & eye surgery do nothing to improve the vision at all (eye surgery is under investigation of the FDA as to how long it lasts)? you need stronger glasses repeatedly, don't you?

but there are countless people who do improve ALL conditions, incl Amblyopia naturally. which 1 is the scam?

[Buckeh]

@EvganiaMehler

Real research is research which has a scientific basis and evidence supporting it.

Do understand that there IS an improvement in vision when someone wears glasses, saying otherwise is stupid. If there was no improvement no one would wear them and many more would suffer from poor vision, instead we even have promising research devoted to halting the progression of myopia.

Methods with results > Methods which have no scientific basis or evidence towards doing anything

[EvganiaMehler]

@Buckeh scientific or not, you can layout a research project to proof everything. it depends on who foots the bill. how else do you explain the contradictions on the harmfulness or benefits of milk for example?

isn't it interesting that the dairy industry always finds benefits, and the opposition harming effects?

if glasses were improving your eyesight, wouldn't your strength decrease rather than increase over time? that's improvement!

if they improved anything, after a while you wouldn't

[EvganiaMehler]

need glasses anymore.

No scientific research for eye exercises... wrong! in 1986 ODs Suchoff & Petito conducted a research study and found that symptoms were totally eliminated in 53%, reduced in 43%, & remained the same in only 4% of subjects when using eye exercises.

the ophthalmic industry just doesn't like these studies. they don't make $110 per year per person on average on glasses, or $3-5k on eye surgery...

i don't think you really know what you are talking about...

[Buckeh]

@EvganiaMehler Errrr, it might help if you actually read the article.

Suchoff & Petito examined available literature, not conducted a study.

It would also be smart if you could apply some context to your figures. Without context your figures are as unbelievable as your video.

Vision therapy has shown use in treating convergence insufficiencies and strabismic disorders(maybe your 'figures' apply here, if anywhere at all), but stating it can be used to treat ambylopia in adults is just stupid.

[EvganiaMehler]

@Buckeh i didn't claim that it had the study had to do with amblyopia, i just responded to your claim that no research was done on natural vision correction. (btw, examining literature is research...)

BUT, what i can tell you is that I have seen many people get rid of amblyopia in my seminars.

unfortunately you seem to believe that if you got a condition, there is nothing you can do about it, but your body has amazing powers to fix itself. but you gotta believe & use it...

have a nice life!

[ChewySatisfaction]

Damn, you are very attractive; such a sight for sore eyes hahahaha. Good for my glaucomas; big as grapefruits they are lol

[BatesHappysight]

Amblyopia is not extreme long sight or short sight. It is suppressed vision. It is different from focal problems. It's not exercise but stimulation that wakes up a lazy eye.

[EvganiaMehler]

@BatesHappysight you need to treat the eyes as part of the body-mind system, only stimulating the eye nerve is not enough. there are many muscles and nerve connection involved in lazy eye.

[BatesHappysight]

@EvganiaMehler I think you're confusing two things. Amblyopia or 'lazy eye' is where the brain does not pick up the signals from the eye at full strength. Stimulation is the way to wake the brain up to those signals. I'm not talking about stimulating the eye nerve, but using visual stimulation and tactile stimulation in the environment. The involvement of muscles is mainly in strabismus, which is often called 'lazy eye' but is a completely different condition.

[KlashaB12]

my right eye is lazy. my doctor told me 2 exercise it and cover my stronger eye but that was a long time ago when i was little. so would it still work if i constantly covered my good eye? will my lazy eye problem go away? please help me

[EvganiaMehler]

@KlashaB12 hi, the exercises will still help.

[TVFOGGED]

@KlashaB12 I have a question for you. When you look into an mirror can you yourself see that your eye is in fact an Lazy Eye?

[KlashaB12]

@TVFOGGED yes slightly. but when i concentrate they look stright T_T

[77jamess]

this is pretty much not going to help, exercising the lazy eye will just cause you discomfort, lazy eye is a fault with not only the eye, but with the connection to the brain also. i have amblyopia and exercises have not helped it in any way shape or form.

[EvganiaMehler]

@77jamess Hi James, which exercises did you do? Did you do Unleash Your Vision or another method?

[77jamess]

I did not do unleash, i used an eye patch for sometime to try and strengthen the eye... with no results. tried other orthoptic exercises which also had no result. I am also skeptical of any mehtod claiming to be able to cure this eye problem of mine. as it always seems to good to be true and am sick of building up false hope for things which do not do what they say they can.

[EvganiaMehler]

@77jamess there are many factors involved in lazy eye, obviously your eye muscles, but also your mind, your spine, your organs, and food you eat.

Stimulating the eye nerve only, as BatesHappysight suggests, is not enough. It only focuses on the eye in isolation of the rest of the body, the general problem of Western medicine.

[77jamess]

@EvganiaMehler Maybe so, but usually for an adult with amblyopia, there is no cure for the lazy eye, there maybe certain things that can be done to ease eye strain caused by the focusing problem. I Eat a well balanced diet, and get regular exercise and still have problems and pain with my amblyopic eye. If your willing to let me try your method for free, then that would be perfect :)

[EvganiaMehler]

@77jamess how can anybody help you, if in your mind you already have so strongly that nothing can help you?

Exercising regularly can harm your spine more than doing good, eating well according to most popular sources is also arguable, so you have to let go of your beliefs before anybody can ever help you!

Go to my website & download my book for free. That will give you a great starting point.

I have nothing to prove, the method works, but YOU have to USE IT!

[BatesHappysight]

@77jamess I agree. It's not exercise that is needed. You have to stimulate the neural pathways to the brain. It's not an easy thing to do. You can wave moving objects and flash lights on the side that needs stimulation. If you patch, it can set up tension, because both sides need to learn to work together, rather than treating it as the problem of one eye only.

[Slashloo]

Okay im 13, and one of my eyes is perfectly centred and the other is slightly like really really slightly off, and I can see perfectly with both eyes. Any help?

[eileenod]

I'm 23 and still have drifting and no depth perception, I function just fine and it is fun to scare my friend when one will drift. i think it is funny.

[Louie92801]

My cousin is 25 and he has a lazy eye. Can it be fixed? He says it can't

[EvganiaMehler]

where do you get your FACTS from?

You must be very emotional about the topic, or else you wouldn't need to use such aggressive language.

[EvganiaMehler]

@karen8007 GREAT, we have someone to discuss here from the "professional" site. Now, do you actually know the difference in theories of Hermann Helmholtz and Bates? I think your profession is HOLDING BACK so much info from patients to sell surgery & glasses, it's not funny! Your profession thinks the body needs you "half-gods" & can't heal itself, & that's been disproved countless times. So, are you familiar with the differences in theories or not?

[EvganiaMehler]

@karen8007 btw, "load of rubbish", "she's talking absolute shit", "actually i had a good laugh at this" seems quite aggressive & arrogant from an objective observers point of view... not really a great basis to form a good argument or discussion on... at least not for most people that communicate with common courtesy! It makes you look like you are being defensive...

[EvganiaMehler]

@karen8007 it awfully quite at your end now... have to research the theories? i thought you are the "specialist" and read all the journals... and you can't sustain a discussion for more than 1 reply??

[UFO6NewWorldOrder]

actually i'm 18 and have improved my lazy eye's vision from 20/100 to 20/20 in just a couple months. I may even achieve binocular vision, I already have binocular vision up close. I was born with amblyopia/crossed eyes, very slight turn though, most don't notice.

[johnTRAN93]

i guess im lucky cause . no one notice it. ppl only notice it when i look to the upper left corner off my eye.

[AWOL92801]

does it work for adults? my little brothers 21 he has it in his left. i wanna find a treatment so i can get it done for him. he wants to join the marines but they declined him because of his eye. it sucks and i know its been tough on him growin up with it. really makes me cry sometimes man real talk. i wanna help. give me some good info i know theres a way i'd appreciate it.

-jody

[EvganiaMehler]

one eye muscle is weaker than the other. so your best bet is to find a vision therapist for eye exercises.

[Foyder]

I have a lazy eye - but my eye only goes inwards when i have double vision (which i get most of the time)

i do wear contact lenses as well but theres no improvement in my double vision.

[clinkclankclonk]

hey i have 1 eye which is my right eye that is looking away to the right when my left eye is straight isthere any way i could get my rigt eye to be looking straight with my left eye without going to surgery i am 16 years old so could you tell me the best way to get two perfectly straight eyes thankyo very much