Symfony and Amblyopia?
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I have Symfony lenses and see 20/20 both eyes for distance.
However, for near vision one eye is J8 while the other is J4 meaning I can read newsprint with one eye but not the other. If I put on a pair of reading glasses, I can read much better.
My doctor says he can do nothing as I have Amblyopia or lazy eye.
This seems odd to me because I am 50 years old and never had anyone suggest this to me all my life - and before surgery when I had my natural lenses and used glasses I could see equally well in both eyes at both distance and near (newsprint equally well in both eyes)
So, I guess I'm not understanding how Amblyopia is the cause? And with amblyopia it sounds like the reading glasses wouldn't help... but they do.
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Sue.An lance01698
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How long ago were your surgeries?
at201 lance01698
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Actually, if you really ended up with one eye being slightly nearsighted, count that as a blessing (even if the surgeon or you did not plan on it). Essentially, you have ended up with mini-monovision which many people aim for to be able to read fine print as well as see well at distance (using both eyes). If both of your eyes had really ended up at plano prescription for distance, chances are that you would be needing glasses for reading fine print even when using both eyes.
lance01698 at201
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Both eyes measure plano and a farsighted situation is NOT happening since the bad is is WORSE AT ALL DISTANCES. However, it's only mildly worse at far (still 20/20 but barely), but increasingly becomes noticeably worse as you move nearer. My good eye beats it all around.
Plus if I look at the computer screen through a little pinhole punched in a piece of paper, it clears everything up for the bad eye! Would this be possible if it was a lazy Amblyopia eye?
at201 lance01698
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If a pinhole in a piece clears up everything, that usually means that the eye is not fucusing well but the retina etc are fine.
If your eye prescription is being measured as plano, then that is good (although you could still have irregular astigmatism or even a dry eye, which will make that eye see worse).
However, please note that if you did have a slight amount of farsightedness, that also will be consistent with your statement that "the bad eye is WORSE AT ALL DISTANCES. However, it's only mildly worse at far (still 20/20 but barely), but increasingly becomes noticeably worse as you move nearer. My good eye beats it all around."
jantje32476 lance01698
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There are some useful info at this website, MORANCORE UTAH EDU
If you shut your good eye, use only the "lazy eye" for 10 - 20 minutes each time, it might help with focusing. Do this exercise a few times a day, and see if it helps you.
jantje32476
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I can't seem to find that particular link as I was multi-tasking with several windows opened all at the same time, I could have bookmarked it on Google Chrome or Firefox, or saved it on Pocket List, or even accidentally deleted it. Both you and logan72565 can see 20/20 both eyes, but the "lazy eye" is fuzzier. After the cataract surgery on my good eye, the vision of my bad eye suddenly went wobbly. It is now normal again as I continue to work on my bad eye. At first it was very difficult to focus it for even 10 minutes; I thought I had Ptosis not uncommon after a cataract surgery except that my bad eye had a cataract removed 7 years earlier. This kind of "lazy eye" issues is outside the Cataract surgeons' realm once the surgery is over.