any news on this?

lunarx did you ever get anythign done?

thanks prettycandles!

and thanks everyone for their responses.. i've made some notes and am going to bring it up to the GP at next visit.. i dont think it warrants a separate visit for now...

My ds also had pronounced ptosis. He had surgery a year ago and is so much better. Feel free to ask any questions about it!

dd has pronounced ptosis, which is why I asked, we have ahd her checked and it is not affecting her vision ( whole lot of other stuff is but not ehr eyelids)
It has got better with age, surgry to correct will be her choice, if she ever decides she needs it.

Ooh he's absolutely gorgeous - what a super smile!

My two both have similar situation with their eyes, and so for that matter do I. Both my children appeared to have lazy left eyelids when they were tiny, sometimes the left eye would close earlier than the right, and also open later. Their eyes, or rather the flesh and hair around their eyes, were not symmetrical either. With dd it was particularly obvious that the whole left side of her face was smaller than the right, but oddly enough nobody else could see it. I seemed to be considered a fussy mummy, attention-seeking, I don't know what. But now, when people look at certain photos of dd they are amazed at the discrepancy she had had in her face.

Both children also have uneven jaws, which only became apparent once they had molars: their molars met on the left, but not on the right, and they had no bite at all in front, they literally could not get their front teeth to meet unless they slid their mouths sideways. Again, no dentist would take my concerns seriously. But ds is 5 and his teeth have evened out almost completely, and the discrepancy between his eyes is only visible in some photos, otherwise they appear completely even. Dd's jaw is still uneven at 3y (not that it stops the little chomp-monster eating anything and almost everything) and her eyes are also almost evened out as well. I'd say it's even less visible in her photos than in ds's, but that could be because they smile differently for photos.

I have one eye different shape to the other: one is very rounded and the other is flatter on top. AFAIK nobody notices. My mum doesn't remember whether they shut differently when I was tiny.

lunarx, I have a droopy eyelid too - see here (you'll have to scroll down a bit - it's dh's thread on another talk forum ). As you can see it is hardly noticeable now (it's my left eye in case you are wondering!!). Never stopped me getting work when I was an actress anyway.

After reading Frog's answer I'm now worried. My son's (12 months) left eye is smaller than his right. Sometimes it is not really noticeable other times it is. I had just thought that was how his face is.

I'd better check out ptosis

Drooping eyelid is technically known as ptosis and is likely to be related to some issue of the muscles surrounding the eye. If you google ptosis you should find lots of info, possible more than you wanted!

Ptosis may be harmless and 'just one of those things', but it can also be indicative of various more serious conditions, and you should get it checked out by an eye specialist to rule these out. In your situation I wouldn't panic, but I would make sufficient fuss to get a referral to eye hospital. If your GP won't play ball, I probably would go to A&E dept of eye hospital or paediatric hospital until I got some proper answers.

I speak from some experience here as I had ptosis as a teenager from one of the less harmless of the various causes, and it was endlessly misdiagnosed, resulting in my condition becoming much more serious than it needed to be. GPs don't know about ptosis -- eye specialists and neurologists do.

Do feel free to CAT me if you want.

I have a droopy eyelid, not as noticeable as in your son's pic (he is GORGEOUS btw!). An optician told me I could have a cosmetic operation if I wanted. It's just a muscular thing and doesn't get any worse with age (yet). I think ds may have an even less noticeable version.