Drifting Eyes

My son did eye therapy, and the pencil exercise is one of them to do. We also had a ball on a string, and I hung it up in the doorway, had him lay down on the floor under it, and i let it sway back and forth, and in circles, and had him follow it with his eyes. He had trouble with reading and this really helped him with his lazy eye. The dr also had him cross his eyes too, to make the muscles stronger. It helped with everything. Glad we did it but it was a bear to get him to do this everyday. I'm glad those days are over!!

My child has a lazy eye. we have tried eye patches, stonger glasses. apparently it can be corrected by 4-8. were seeing specialist. we go in every 3 months. Have you tried a web site called icansee ? Or eye training web sites on line.

Please continue doing the exercises with her. I think it's called "lazy eye" and the doctor suggested just what yours did when my sister was a young child, the muscles in her eye did get stronger and I recall her being told to continue to do them on her own into her early teens.

One of my brothers, on the other hand, had the same problem when he was only 2 and by then the damage was already done and the one eye kept getting weaker and weaker and the other stronger to compensate, to where as an adult he says he doesn't use the weak eye anymore, he's trained himself to "ignore" it.

My son had this problem when he was in Junior High. The eye doctor had us do eye exercises and my son didn't want to do them. So he developed a wondering eye (also known as a lazy eye). When he was 21 and working full time (with Medical benefits) he chose to get it fixed. The Dr. goes in and cuts the mucle and re-ties it to the eye socket somehow making it shorter and re-align the eye so it's straight again. I feel if he did his exercises he wouldn't have had to go through all that to begin with. When you are a single mother of three boys you have to pick your battles.

When I was 5 I had to do eye exercises too. I had to look and focus on an object a foot in front of my face, and then focus on something across the room, and back at the close object, and back at the far away one. I had to follow a toy in my moms hand as she moved it back and forth in front of me. I had to look at an object, close my eyes, count to 5m and open my eyes and focus on the object again. I started wearing glasses at 6 dispite these exercises but I think it kept me from having more extreme vision problems anyway.