I wish I had found this site 2 years ago
it would have helped so much! I've got a
left lazy eye that drifted outwards. I had
it corrected just before I started school,
as my mum didn't want me to be bullied. I
had the surgery but it wasn't successful,
I think from the sounds of it I had a crap
doctor! They said that they stitches
hadn't held so there was nothing else they
could do for me. For years I wasn't aware
of it, I was made to wear glasses but they
didn't do anything to improve my vision so
stopped wearing them. My eye only ever
drifted out when I was tired so I could
live with it. Then when I was 19 I noticed
it was gradually drifting out all the time
and I was suffering from double vision a
lot. I used to be a confident out going
girl who always had eye contact with
people but I was made more aware of my eye
by people making fun of me and not knowing
who I was talking to. It got so bad that I
had a fringe across my left eye and
basically covered that side of my face up
with it so I wouldnt have the
embarrassment of people wondering who I
was looking at or if I was talking to
them. The thing that finally made me go to
my doctor was a family friend asking my
mum if there was anything they could do
because I was such a pretty girl but it
let me down and it was such a shame. Made
me feel great. Anyway I was referred to my
local hospital by my GP. The first doctor
I saw who did the initial assessments
seemed optimistic that they would be able
to do something so I was booked in for
surgery. On the morning of the surgery I
saw the consultant who was going to do my
operation and he dashed my hopes, he hadnt
realised that I had already surgery and
didnt seem to think there was anything
they could do for me. He agreed to send me
down and see what could be done, but he
wasnt hopeful. I begged the nurse that
went down with me to make him do
something, I was so desperate for it to
work. I came round from the surgery and
was told that he had been able to do
something and it was early days but we
would see. They tightened the muscles up
and overcompensated so it turns slightly
in but u cant notice it. Neither me or the
registrar doctor could believe how good it
was! It wasn't nice recovering from it but
it was well worth it. And the bonus is my
double vision is gone!! I'm just praying
that it stays where it is now and doesn't
start drifting out again
