I'm 65 and have no idea what it's like to see through both eyes at the same time. Kind of like a birth defect, but have been able to adapt having one eye functional. Do wear glasses now, and now that the bad eye is almost normal, it still refuses to process vision since my good eye has always done the work. No problem, my life has been normal - and when my good eye gets tired, esp. when reading, I patch it up to give it a break, and put the bad one to work. Guess we all adapt to whatever handicap we may have, especially if it's from birth and don't have any reference to what normal vision is...that's the good part. On the flip side, if you're young, better to tackle this problem with a workable therapy ASAP, and enjoy the benefits of seeing much more of life than not. Good video!
@@yuussee I'm 16 I I'm having exotropia I was told that now my brain has adapted to work with the right eye not with both eyes simultaneously. Doctors told that squint surgery will only make your eyes look forward but dominant eye will work. My [eyesight left - 2.50 and right -1.50 ] . it is since birth .
Same here nearly 30. Right eye is blurred bad its like seeing out of a bathroom window when i cover my left eye. Id love to know how to judge depth and seeing out of 2 eyes
I'm a 47 year old pilot who has suffered from Amblyopia and my career as a pilot was very affected by this limitation as I had crippling restrictions placed on my medical. Recently I started flying the DCS flight simulator Apache helicopter in virtual reality. I am wondering if this could work as an exercise for strengthening my weaker right eye. Why you ask? Well, Apache pilots need excellent vision in both eyes and not just in terms of visual acuity but also in being able to process separate information in individual eyes - most especially their right eye. As a result left eye dominant types like myself tend to struggle, anyone who remembers the Nicholas Cage movie Firebirds will remember the scenes where they had him wear a periscope over his right eye with his left eye covered while driving a car. The Apache pilot has a helmet mounted monocle display called an IHADSS over their right eye which displays the heads up display kind of like a fighter jet but instead of being on a glass pane on top of the instrument panel it is directly over their eye. It shows primary flight data like airspeed, heading, altitude and flight vector cues as well as being used for targeting. Most importantly it also displays the night-vision sensor image so that the pilot can fly at night. The sensor follows his head movements so wherever he looks at night he can see. At night pretty much the right eye is doing everything and the left eye is left seeing only the darkness or whatever is visible in the cockpit such as display screens. For training they are put in "the bag" where the windows are all covered up forcing the crew to fly ONLY on what the monocle is displaying. So while using this my brain is forced to focus more on what the right eye is seeing and process that information hence why I wonder if it is kind of an exercise. My vision is sharp in the right eye but I just struggle to process what I see. Do you think using this could actually improve my amblyopia condition? If so how long and how often should I do this - I need to ask so I can justify to my wife that I am not actually playing games, it's a medical procedure! 🤣😂🤣😂
I want to become a flight attendant so badly and I'm scared that my amblyopia will cause me rejection , but reading that you ve been a pilot with this condition motivated me
@@flamelily5903 I think as long as you can meet the minimum vision in each eye individually and both eyes combined stereoscopic vision won't be an issue. I doubt vision requirements for cabin crew are going to be too strict.
i want to become a commercial pilot i have amblyopia my right eye has perfect vision but my left eye has little blurred vision wondering if i could pass my medical
I'm 16 I I'm having exotropia I was told that now my brain has adapted to work with the right eye not with both eyes simultaneously. Doctors told that squint surgery will only make your eyes look forward but dominant eye will work. My [eyesight left - 2.50 and right -1.50 ] . it is since birth .
@@HodanjamaHidanjama well im 18 now still the option is surgery which i have not gone for 1. the doctors of eye 7 delhi hospital last year told me go for a 3 month exercise regiment as i have "Alternate exotropia" and after three months they will do squint surgery so that if the eyes can adapt at any last resort they may adapt. three exercises were - cat card , dot card and brock string well i was in 12th and with that load of pressure etc i was not able to continue with it for a long time it is easy to say it will take 30-40 minutes but hard to do it so i haven't gone for surgery till now but one thing is that for closer objects my eyes are adapted to perform normally the problem is only for far objects and my eyesight is stable same as 2 years ago
I am 17 too and I had esotropia since I was 5 maybe but I had surgery like a month or two ago called squint surgery. That surgery had fixed my esotropia like if I look left or right they are straight but here comes the problem when I look straight idk what's the problem my eyes looks like the same it used to be a bit better but still like my right eye is a bit inward and that makes the left eye look outward a bit, it's not cuz of esotropia that's already gone cuz of surgery it's cuz of I guess something else which I don't know I'm doing my research and I assume it's cuz of my eyes focus point like I used to see with my left eye all my life and my right one was inward and kinds useless so now when I look straight at something my eyes don't look straight cuz of point of focus I guess like my eyes aren't inward but cuz the way I look at things it makes them look like before for example if you look at your nose straight in the mirror but you see at your nose while having your eyes looking at left a bit like you are looking at your nose focusing it but your eyes are in a bit left direction. Does someone have any idea what it is?
I've been in VT for 8 months, high anisomyopic amblyopia w/ divergence insufficiency and have made very little improvement via binocular exercise with best corrected soft lenses. Any suggestions on how to improve?
I'm 16 I I'm having exotropia I was told that now my brain has adapted to work with the right eye not with both eyes simultaneously. Doctors told that squint surgery will only make your eyes look forward but dominant eye will work. My [eyesight left - 2.50 and right -1.50 ] . it is since birth .
I changed the way I looked at everything.Forced my mind to see things 3d.when meditating I would raise awareness of my right side and right eye.binocular vision is getting better and my perspective is changing from my left side to know I see from the right perspective too.it even changed the way some people look.
Hi Dr. Lam , I have always had a lazy eye, amblyopia, If I practice I can "turn on" the amblyopic eye and what I can see for example when looking at my hand is a very subtle ghost image of the hand floating to the left and up ( but with no strabismus, maybe eye lens size difference?), my bad eye sight is very very poor. , If I move the hand and follow with both eyes this soft ghost hand would follow, so what I think is that my eye sision was suppressed because somehow my eye's lens reflects light poorly and the image is not align to the other eye by size and position. Since I was a kid I always thought I could fix this if there was any way to align my sight with both eyes, maybe by matching image size. What do you think, is there hope for me now?
Hola les saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪 tengo ambliopía y baja visión en mi ojo izquierdo se devia hacia afuera. Pero mi pregunta es ¿porque cuando tapo mi ojo derecho mi ojo izquierdo se va hacia adentro ?
I am Indonesian, 28 y.o, and diagnosed amblyopia. The doctor said that it's too late to recover. I am so sad and I don't know what to do. I kind of scared. It's never too late, right?
@@user-yemaung had/have glasses? U think it's blurred , so.. u're not sure if it's blurred? Have u been diagnosed with amblyopia or just self diagnosed ?
@@user-yemaung amblyopia can be fix at any age but it's harder to fix when u're old..are ur parents concerned about ur lazy eye..if they're not convince them to give u the surgery bc lazy eye is just going to be worst as time past by..but don't worry to much
Even at 46 the vision can be improved, but it’s a lot harder to fix because the amblyopia has been there for so long, so it will take a lot of extra work!
I'm 65 and have no idea what it's like to see through both eyes at the same time. Kind of like a birth defect, but have been able to adapt having one eye functional. Do wear glasses now, and now that the bad eye is almost normal, it still refuses to process vision since my good eye has always done the work. No problem, my life has been normal - and when my good eye gets tired, esp. when reading, I patch it up to give it a break, and put the bad one to work.
Guess we all adapt to whatever handicap we may have, especially if it's from birth and don't have any reference to what normal vision is...that's the good part. On the flip side, if you're young, better to tackle this problem with a workable therapy ASAP, and enjoy the benefits of seeing much more of life than not. Good video!
Same here, I've been "one-eyed" since birth.
@@yuussee I'm 16 I I'm having exotropia I was told that now my brain has adapted to work with the right eye not with both eyes simultaneously.
Doctors told that squint surgery will only make your eyes look forward but dominant eye will work.
My [eyesight left - 2.50 and right -1.50 ] . it is since birth .
Same here nearly 30. Right eye is blurred bad its like seeing out of a bathroom window when i cover my left eye. Id love to know how to judge depth and seeing out of 2 eyes
Same here 😢
I am 22 yrs old and my dream is to be a soldier but because of my eye condition i can't do it my biggest insecurity 🥺
Bro I can understand your pain 🤐
Doesn't lasik work?
@@studentpo4198 doesn't have time and money for that
@@studentpo4198 No
@@studentpo4198 lasik does not work on lazy eye
Does Vision Therapy work on adults too?
I'm a 47 year old pilot who has suffered from Amblyopia and my career as a pilot was very affected by this limitation as I had crippling restrictions placed on my medical. Recently I started flying the DCS flight simulator Apache helicopter in virtual reality. I am wondering if this could work as an exercise for strengthening my weaker right eye.
Why you ask?
Well, Apache pilots need excellent vision in both eyes and not just in terms of visual acuity but also in being able to process separate information in individual eyes - most especially their right eye. As a result left eye dominant types like myself tend to struggle, anyone who remembers the Nicholas Cage movie Firebirds will remember the scenes where they had him wear a periscope over his right eye with his left eye covered while driving a car.
The Apache pilot has a helmet mounted monocle display called an IHADSS over their right eye which displays the heads up display kind of like a fighter jet but instead of being on a glass pane on top of the instrument panel it is directly over their eye. It shows primary flight data like airspeed, heading, altitude and flight vector cues as well as being used for targeting. Most importantly it also displays the night-vision sensor image so that the pilot can fly at night. The sensor follows his head movements so wherever he looks at night he can see. At night pretty much the right eye is doing everything and the left eye is left seeing only the darkness or whatever is visible in the cockpit such as display screens. For training they are put in "the bag" where the windows are all covered up forcing the crew to fly ONLY on what the monocle is displaying.
So while using this my brain is forced to focus more on what the right eye is seeing and process that information hence why I wonder if it is kind of an exercise. My vision is sharp in the right eye but I just struggle to process what I see.
Do you think using this could actually improve my amblyopia condition? If so how long and how often should I do this - I need to ask so I can justify to my wife that I am not actually playing games, it's a medical procedure! 🤣😂🤣😂
I want to become a flight attendant so badly and I'm scared that my amblyopia will cause me rejection , but reading that you ve been a pilot with this condition motivated me
@@flamelily5903 I think as long as you can meet the minimum vision in each eye individually and both eyes combined stereoscopic vision won't be an issue. I doubt vision requirements for cabin crew are going to be too strict.
i want to become a commercial pilot i have amblyopia my right eye has perfect vision but my left eye has little blurred vision wondering if i could pass my medical
My left eye turned outside I had lost my confidence people used to say are you looking at me or anywhere else. I can't do eye contact with any person
So me...I am so ashemd to make eye contact with somebody :(
@@maria-alexandraionescu4723 same brother, i feel very shy to make an contact. Even with a man
Keep up the good work
I'm 16 I I'm having exotropia I was told that now my brain has adapted to work with the right eye not with both eyes simultaneously.
Doctors told that squint surgery will only make your eyes look forward but dominant eye will work.
My [eyesight left - 2.50 and right -1.50 ] . it is since birth .
Just attempt patching
I have the same condition and I'm 19 now. Did anything work for you ?
@@HodanjamaHidanjama well im 18 now
still the option is surgery which i have not gone for
1. the doctors of eye 7 delhi hospital last year told me go for a 3 month exercise regiment as i have "Alternate exotropia" and after three months they will do squint surgery so that if the eyes can adapt at any last resort they may adapt.
three exercises were - cat card , dot card and brock string
well i was in 12th and with that load of pressure etc i was not able to continue with it for a long time
it is easy to say it will take 30-40 minutes but hard to do it so i haven't gone for surgery till now
but one thing is that for closer objects my eyes are adapted to perform normally the problem is only for far objects and my eyesight is stable same as 2 years ago
@@allno2849 thank you ❤,and I hope it goes well for both of us .
I am 17 too and I had esotropia since I was 5 maybe but I had surgery like a month or two ago called squint surgery. That surgery had fixed my esotropia like if I look left or right they are straight but here comes the problem when I look straight idk what's the problem my eyes looks like the same it used to be a bit better but still like my right eye is a bit inward and that makes the left eye look outward a bit, it's not cuz of esotropia that's already gone cuz of surgery it's cuz of I guess something else which I don't know I'm doing my research and I assume it's cuz of my eyes focus point like I used to see with my left eye all my life and my right one was inward and kinds useless so now when I look straight at something my eyes don't look straight cuz of point of focus I guess like my eyes aren't inward but cuz the way I look at things it makes them look like before for example if you look at your nose straight in the mirror but you see at your nose while having your eyes looking at left a bit like you are looking at your nose focusing it but your eyes are in a bit left direction. Does someone have any idea what it is?
I kinda have the same problem
I've been in VT for 8 months, high anisomyopic amblyopia w/ divergence insufficiency and have made very little improvement via binocular exercise with best corrected soft lenses. Any suggestions on how to improve?
Hey.......What's your vision score? Mine is 6/12
@@premchaithanya.m6678 Mine is 6/60
I'm 16 I I'm having exotropia I was told that now my brain has adapted to work with the right eye not with both eyes simultaneously.
Doctors told that squint surgery will only make your eyes look forward but dominant eye will work.
My [eyesight left - 2.50 and right -1.50 ] . it is since birth .
@@allno2849 00
@@manishankartiwari9741 ?
Don't forget about N-T motion processing!!!
My childhood education was disturbed by patching.
I live in Florida, please send me information!!
I m 27 year old my left eye are lazy eye to resolve problem
I changed the way I looked at everything.Forced my mind to see things 3d.when meditating I would raise awareness of my right side and right eye.binocular vision is getting better and my perspective is changing from my left side to know I see from the right perspective too.it even changed the way some people look.
Can you explain the meditating part in a bit more detail?
@@samuelfrost9701 don't fall for this bs
I'm eight years old and I have amblyopia and I wear it for six hours
watching this video with a patch on and huge font lol
What do I do if it don’t work like I’m 19 I had glasses when I was younger and the doctor said my eye sight is fine and my lazy eye never went away
Hi Dr. Lam , I have always had a lazy eye, amblyopia, If I practice I can "turn on" the amblyopic eye and what I can see for example when looking at my hand is a very subtle ghost image of the hand floating to the left and up ( but with no strabismus, maybe eye lens size difference?), my bad eye sight is very very poor.
, If I move the hand and follow with both eyes this soft ghost hand would follow, so what I think is that my eye sision was suppressed because somehow my eye's lens reflects light poorly and the image is not align to the other eye by size and position. Since I was a kid I always thought I could fix this if there was any way to align my sight with both eyes, maybe by matching image size. What do you think, is there hope for me now?
Same here i have the same type of vision
Hola les saludos desde Venezuela 🇻🇪 tengo ambliopía y baja visión en mi ojo izquierdo se devia hacia afuera. Pero mi pregunta es ¿porque cuando tapo mi ojo derecho mi ojo izquierdo se va hacia adentro ?
what is vision therapy , you did not tell a thing about that . Just made a video for views by writing that caption.What a shame.
I am Indonesian, 28 y.o, and diagnosed amblyopia. The doctor said that it's too late to recover. I am so sad and I don't know what to do. I kind of scared. It's never too late, right?
Find another doctor..
Nothing is late you can recover even with a little improvement for the eye
The science is getting improved. Dont worry, they will find a solution one day. I believe these theraphies seem also work.
My doctor said the same
There are alternate treatments that your doctor has not been educated about.
Hi im 23 years old my left eye is lazy eye since im a child plss help me my lazy eye 😔
i am 17. i had amblyopia
Can i fix?
What happened when i was old?(i going to blind)
Yes it can still be fixed.. do u have any glasses prescription? Is ur vision in the affected eye getting dark or maybe blurred?
@@justinfam4729 ofc i had glasses. my left eye is normal but right had amblyopia i think is just blurred'(
@@user-yemaung had/have glasses? U think it's blurred , so.. u're not sure if it's blurred? Have u been diagnosed with amblyopia or just self diagnosed ?
@@user-yemaung amblyopia can be fix at any age but it's harder to fix when u're old..are ur parents concerned about ur lazy eye..if they're not convince them to give u the surgery bc lazy eye is just going to be worst as time past by..but don't worry to much
@@justinfam4729 had been 2019 Not self diagnosed'(
Does this realy helps?
How long the Amblyopia therapy takes for 25 years adult?
Can this be treated at 46 yrs old? My biggest insecurity
Even at 46 the vision can be improved, but it’s a lot harder to fix because the amblyopia has been there for so long, so it will take a lot of extra work!
I'm going blind fun🙃
its not fun for me bro
@@user-yemaung u're going blind too?
@@justinfam4729 i had amblyopiam and you?
@@justinfam4729 i don't think i will blind maybe'(
@@user-yemaung u think u're going blind bc u have lazy eye?