Anybody's child ever had a lazy eye?

[AmberMerrell]

My daughter's left eye is lazy & we finally got a reference to an eye doctor. Just wondering what to expect & asking for prayers that everything goes well! *Thank you all!

[Mommy_Jenx3]

Bumping for you. Good luck!

[dancer]

It will be fine. Lazy eye is genetic.  She will need glasses. 

[dancer]

My son and I both have lazy eye.

[AmberMerrell]

None of her grandparents, me, or dh don't have it. Everybody I've talked to irl said glasses will not fix it. But thank you for the encouraging words!

Quoting dancer:

It will be fine. Lazy eye is genetic.  She will need glasses. 

[Gabeys_Mommy]

My niece(3) & nephew(8) both have one, same eye. They both wear glasses but seem to have pretty good vision.

[lovingwifey]

We thought my youngest son did.  Took him to the eye doc when he was 6 months old, (he was seen in the nicu he and his twin were 11 weeks early so they got weekly eye exams in the nicu) turns out it is Duanes syndrome.  Nothing they can do until he has a significant tilt to his head, even then surgery may or may not work.  He needed glasses we found out in Oct.  He had just turned four.

[dancer]

Glasses do help it.

Quoting AmberMerrell:

None of her grandparents, me, or dh don't have it. Everybody I've talked to irl said glasses will not fix it. But thank you for the encouraging words!

Quoting dancer:

It will be fine. Lazy eye is genetic.  She will need glasses. 

[RosePetalTears]

my brother had one and he had to wear an eye patch over the normal eye to help strengthen the lazy one.  He also ended up needing glasses

[dancer]

They may try putting an eye patch on the strong eye to try to make the lazy one stronger.

Quoting AmberMerrell:

None of her grandparents, me, or dh don't have it. Everybody I've talked to irl said glasses will not fix it. But thank you for the encouraging words!

Quoting dancer:

It will be fine. Lazy eye is genetic.  She will need glasses. 

[ojaj2005]

My sister had one when she was younger (she's 27 now so this was a long time ago). She had to have corrective surgery, wear a patch, and then wear glasses (think it that order- she was around 2 so I was around 4 yrs old). 

Her eye is fine now and she doesn't need any corrective eyewear (lucky her). Good luck!!