i am 22 years old and was diagnosed with a 'lazy eye' at around age 5.  however, which eye turns inward depends on how far away the object i am focusing on is.  when i am reading, i am using my left eye, and when i am looking at something far away, i use my right eye.  i was wondering if my vision loss in either eye might get worse and is there anything i can do to improve my vision?  (basically, i am near-sighted in my left eye and far-sighted in my right eye).\nthanks
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Keep your wife on your left side and your mother in law on your right...(the right kind of distance for both, and works well for you from what i hear!)...\n\nAs for your father in law, you dont have eyes in the back of your head do you?
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See an opthamologist or get a second opinion. Steroids should not be used in the eye for any long period of time. It may not be too late to reverse the effects..
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His left is your right isn't it? Perhaps you are righthanded and therefor your right eye dominates and stares at it's choice, the closer object to it (being the left eye of the other person). Try looking at a lefthanded or leftbrain dominant person and see if there's a difference. ^__^
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If you are short sighted your eye ball is too long. That means the refractive power of your lens is too strong, and it focuses any image in front of your retina instead right on it. As a result the image is blurry.\nAs the lens has to become more refractive anyway for looking at things close up, you don't have as much a problem there, actually you can see things still in focus at a shorter distance than normal sighted people can. (Look up accommodation of the eye, I've pasted the first website I came across at the bottom, but I am sure you can find more). \nIf you get glasses for short sightedness, they are the kind which disperse light more (concave) and that will correct for it. (Means also if you are stranded on a desert island you won't be able to use them to make fire.)\nGlasses do not make things worse, but that depends a lot of your age and the glasses. \nWhile you are growing up, your eyeball is still growing. If your eye is going to see a blurry image, all it can do to try to correct it is grow more. So if you are shortsighted and you don't wear glasses you may be in trouble, because that will make your short-sightedness worse. If your glasses are too strong for you, you will be also in trouble, because if your eyes are still thinking it's not right, they will also keep growing and having the glasses won't make any difference. \nBest is supposed to be that then you wear glasses which are slightly less than what you need, so if your eyeballs are getting a tiny bit longer they will actually be perfect vision and that should inhibit growth. \n\nIf you think you are shortsighted because you have been reading a lot/watching a lot of television/ computer you want to check if that short sightedness goes away if you don't do any of those things for a couple of days. Looking a lot a close things makes it harder for eyes to accommodate, they are doing that much slower. If you have something like this, you could consider getting glasses which are a little bit like the glasses for far sighted people. You only wear those while doing really close up things. That's supposed to prevent eye strain. If you get glasses for short sightedness for this specific condition they won't help you, they probably make things worse. \n\nTake home message: Glasses can be a good thing, but they have to be the correct ones, otherwise they can make things worse. \n\nIf you want to look in more details, funny as it may sound, there have been a lot of studies on chickens on how lenses affects eye sight.
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Yes it is more the possible it is common at varying stages to have the Rx change. Thsi should not happen all the time but does happen. One example is in mid age you will find the eyes seem to get better. This is usually the first sign for the need for bifocals
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Talk to your eye doctor!
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The lazy eye, usually has weaker vision than the "good" eye\n\nAs such, it relaxes, and your body forces you to use the good eye.\n\nExercises will help, but it wont really ever go away. It happens after you work out, because you are tired, and the body tends to go towards its natural state.\n\nunfortunately excercises, eye patches, etc. are only temporary fixes, the body will always go back to its natural state.\n\nSee an opthamalogist anyway, there might be something they can suggest
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if you are nearsightedness this sight will probably help you.\n\n\n\n\n\nreversingnearsightedness.com
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No!...As a middle age man who has had three surgeries in one eye I can sympathize with the discomfort.  I recently consulted with a leading retina specialist for his opinion.\n\nThe only solution if it affects your day to day ability to concentrate and read is two have surgery.\n\nI am very close to going through the surgery which will be a real task as the orgiginal surgery (scaleral buckle surgery) was a bitch and the recovery is 2 to 3 months.
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I am sorry to say that it doesn't appear that this can be cured (although I am not a doctor):\n\nExpectations (prognosis)    \nThe disorder will continue to progress, though at a very slow pace. Complete blindness is uncommon\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001029.htm#Expectations%20(prognosis)
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It's good to rest your eyes--at least try to take them out in the evenings.  I don't think it makes your vision worse, but it can affect your eye health as far as the cornea and infections etc. I haven't heard of the Renu problem, but there was a Bausch & Loumb recall.
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Do do do be careful!!!\nOne friend had it and did fine.\nAnother is having 1-2 surgeries a month on both eyes to correct what they did to her with Lasik--she walks around with a squint. I'm afraid she may loose her vision because of this.
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Haha...yeah! I go to the doctors, and they say I have 20-20 vision...but I know for a fact, that when I look at things far away...they are somewhat blurry. My right eye is worse than my left. So I finally went to the doctor. And without straining I tried to guess the letters. I got one wrong and the guy was like..ooo! You need glasses! So I got a prescription with only the right eye...like, there are lenses, but only the right one helps me see better...if that makes sense. So yeah...I have glasses, but I don't use them.
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I hear carrots are good for your eyes. I am not sure if your eyesight can improve with excersise but the doctor told me to excersize them to improve my eye sight by looking extreme left, extreme right, extreme up and then extreme down over and over again. I hope it works for you.
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My kids and I picked up something similar called eyeQ and it has lots of eye excersises to improve vision and reading, I am now a semi speed reader but have always had good vision, my one daughter went up in english and no longer complains of her eyes hurting when she studies too much. This one I can vouch for. See if its similar.
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Yes, it can harm your vision.  Not only by eyestrain.  \n\nWe are built to function binocularly (focusing on things with both eyes in a wide spectrum).  When we focus so intently on the screen, our eyes get "locked" into that focus.  Over time, it can diminish your focusing ability, and thus change your eyesight.  \n\nYou should look away from your screen every 10-15 minutes and focus on something far away to keep your eyes flexible.
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its safe and easy. if it fails, it can be redone with no problems.  do it when you are 25 years of age or older to insure that your vision wont worsen and is stable.