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Question

I have a left lazy eye which goes inwards towards my nose and also double vision if i don´t wear my glasses.
i am worried that as i get older my left eye, which doesn´t wander when i wear my glasses, will not be able to be controlled and it will wander towards my nose even with glasses. is there surgery available or anything that can be done.
Thanking you in advance for your answer
I am 30 years old.

(JACKIE SADLER)

Answer:

Dear Jackie,

Apparently, you have plus glasses. You need to wear the glasses because (1) focusing is connected to your eyes going inwards towards the nose (= convergence) and hence the convergent squint is reduced by wearing the glasses, and (2) as you get older, your abillity to focus will decrease, so that you will soon need to wear the glasses all day. If, with the correct glasses, the squint is still larger than 5 degrees, consult the Strabismus Department at the University Eye Clinic in Cologne (Professor Ruessmann) and have the squint measured.

Yours truly,

(Herb Simonsz, MD, PhD)

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