Had strabismus surgery, resection, of muscles in each eye in 1963. Immediate result increased reading speed to fantastic level. Unfortunately decreased to low amount within months. Newer procedure reattaches muscle to eyeball surface in a different location. Don't know if this works better. Exercises prior and post surgery didn't work. Patch over lazy eye didn't work. Dominant eye now left vs right years ago. Still managed to function for 70 years so far. Cataract surgery next week. Good luck!

Hello, I have had 2 eye muscle surgeries for the oposite condition to yours. Mine is esotropia. I will now be seeking vision therapy after my last surgery one year ago on March 27th. Eye suergery is needed in my case because my binocular vision needs to be strengthen as this is a problem connected to the brain. But my eyes are not perfectly straight yet. I still have intermitten strabismus so it only happens sometimes. No one could tell but I can feel it. Sometimes it requires serveral more surgeries or eye therapy. Eye exercises do help me. I look up, down and side to side, as hard as I can and it really helps my eyes to go to where they need to be. You can recover in a few days after the surgery. Surgery takes about 2 hours or so. Its a little painful, a lot of presure in the eye but you'll be okay. I would do it again if I had to.

Hi there, I was wondering how often people get glasses for the pure fact that their eye balls feel so painful in which massive headaches kick in, from reading a book, magazine and especially a computer screen. I can see near and far just fine. Is there a specific sort of optical lens specific to what I've said? Typing this out right now is painful on my eyes and I now have a head ache.
Any ideas? Should I go see an eye dr. or could it be something else?
Thanxs

Hi its been 2 weeks since my strabismus operation using adjustable sutures on my left eye. I am 29 years old and I've had intermittent exotropia (outward turn) since childhood (2nd grade). This was my first operation to correct my strabismus. After the operation my eye was closed. After about 1 week post-op I was reevaluated and the attending UCLA doctors were smiling as I left the room. I took this to mean things had gone well. Indeed, both functionally and cosmetically the correction has changed my life.
Here's my timeline up until now.

DAY 1: adjusted the sutures using a topical (I had no pain) he slightly overcorrected my left eye I left the office slightly crossed.
DAY 2: my eye opened seeing slightly double eye muscles feel stiff.
DAY 4: drove to work on the freeway (no lane changes) constantly swiveling my head to compensate for having little eye movement.
DAY 5: Reading with no glasses. muscles feeling looser. feels like I have two eyes no x2 vision at distance fixation.
DAY 6: Looked through both eye pieces of a microscope simultaneously for the first time.
DAY 8: drove for 4.5 hours without x2 vision (could've gone another 2).
Day 12: Today my vision is so good now. The 6-0 vicryl sutures are almost completely dissolved. I'm aligned and my eye muscles feel pliable and my vision feels snappy. no headaches/vertigo/no more closing one eye/attention span is 100% better. I'm cured. Dr. Isenberg will continue to monitor the eye x1 / year to ensure that I remain cured.

PREOP: I had intermittent exotropia which is (1:20)
POSTOP: I have an exophoria (1:4)

Before talking to an optometrist find an eye surgeon first and get the surgery if they recommend it. Prisms and vision therapy are a waste of time/money. Thing about strabismus is that it can only be corrected by a surgeon. I highly recommend Dr. Sherwin J. Isenberg of the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. (310) 825-8840. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. He knows his stuff.