Squint eyes

[OnNaturesCourse]

Anyone have any experience with this?

My LO has two squints. One eye has a squint when looking up and to the side, one eye is just when looking up occasionally.

Awaiting further communication from hospital about way forward.

Ds1 developed a squint as a teen.
It was operated on not because he looked odd (which he didn't), but because trying to see with his eyes pointing in different directions was giving him migraines with the strain.

I've also heard that children with untreated squint might lose the ability to see in stereo vision.

I was also a child with a squint, I had an operation on each eye. My parents chose to have both done by the time I was three which I am so pleased about as I have basically no memory of them. I'm squeamish and might not have been brave enough to make the decision myself.

My squint was severe, but now I can just see the remnants of it when I take my glasses off and am tired. No one in my life has ever noticed or commented, and trust me I was properly cross eyed!

@katmunchkin my consultant said there is no risk not getting it done and that the glasses should help it again, I no this is your experience but I'm going on my instinct and if it went wrong and she was blind in one eye for life I would never forgive my self, in a couple of years when she is a bit more ready to talk about it I will listen and respect her choice however I'm not going to go ahead on my only knowledge being cosmetic.

@waxy1 I'm not repeating my choices to a stranger on the internet who has no idea or understands the situation I'm in. I'm going to teach her the right things in life, you don't have to please other people by looking a certain way and that surgery to change how you look is necessary. I'm going to teach her to be happy with who she is and to be a strong confident person. But cheers to your one sided input :)

@Bumply my child's squint must not be as severe as yours, glasses seemed to help correct it last time so I'm willing to try them again

That’ll befine, when a time comes when looks don’t matter.

Maybe that will happen soon.

That was @leanne

I had two operations on each eye when I was young (aged between 4 and 10) and don't remember them. (This was after several years of patches/glasses to try and correct the issue) The operations corrected most of the issue, I now only have wandering eyes when I'm tired and haven't worn my glasses for several days (supposed to wear them every day).

It is bad for self esteem when someone points out my eyes have gone funny, I can't imagine being known for that being a permanent issue rather than a one off. I'm pleased I had the operations when I was a child.

My older child has been tested and her eyes are fine. My baby will have his eyes tested when he's old enough and I assume we will have the operation for him if it's needed.

Risks include:
• further surgery being needed to fully correct the squint – this is quite common, particularly if the squint is severe
• permanent double vision – this may require special glasses to correct your vision (read more about how double vision is treated)
• an infection, abscess (build-up of pus) or cyst (build-up of fluid) around the eye – this may require treatment with antibiotics and/or a procedure to drain the pus or fluid
• the eye muscles slipping out of position – further surgery may be needed to correct this
• a small hole being made in the eye as the eye muscles are stitched in place – this may require antibiotics to prevent infection and a procedure to close the hole
• loss of vision – this is very rare

No chance I would risk any of this in my child.

@waxy1 you just make a judgment but you have no idea what it's like to have a child go through this, you can only assume. I have no time to talk to you anymore your a vile human being

Leanne I had a squint diagnosed when I was 10 months old. Years.of glasses and patches fixed my eye til I was in my late teens where it then started to turn out. My actual eyesight was perfect it just looked a little odd.

It wasn't til I was in my mid twenties when it started to bother me cosmetically. I had it operated on and the operation was a complete success. However i was warned it was not a permanent fix and will probably need operating on again 10-15 years down the line.

If the ophthalmologist isn't pushing for surgery then I wouldn't worry about it. Fgs it doesn't make you a neglectful parent! My ds' eye turns out too, I have not opted for an operation yet as his eyesight is not affected and I wouldn't want to change that.

“I have no time to talk to you anymore your a vile human being”

You are ploughing a lonely furrow, so far as I can see.

This thread is full of one sided opinions when things have gone smoothly with the operation. If people came on with the bad effects then some would think differently. The decision is down to the parent and if they choose to that their choice I was giving the OP my opinion on it not to be confronted for a decision I made for my child

Varying opinions are how you find balance.

@MinesABabyGuiness thankyou for understanding my decision and I understanding the effects of not having too, my little girls eyesight is not affected either by the squint just both eyes need glasses for long/short distance viewing like mine ant remember which one it is,
The other poster is just trying to annoy me by saying that about my parenting of course it isn't neglect,

@waxy1 that's fine but you are pushing a one sided view just make your opinion clear and don't get involved in other people's decisions

Well, if it’s an invisible squint that has no effect on eyesight, then I have no opinion on the matter at all.

@waxy1 your obviously uneducated on the matter and I would appreciate if u wouldn't comment further. Thankyou and goodbye

I’ve not been on a course about it, but I’ve known many people with corrected and uncorrected squints.

How they are treated by people they meet is very noticeable.

Waxy I'd appreciate if you didn't sit and shit stir on a forum topic I raised to gather some support and guidance.

Leanne - is your LO sight at all effected? Like I say I wonder if my LO is struggling with depth perception

@waxy1 I'm not bothered about your opinion. The op wanted people's experiences not to comment on other people's decisions, your obviously a keyboard warrior with nothing else to do but stir things up.
Are you my child's parent NO how dare you Insult my parenting. Get a life and fuck off

I had a squint had operation when I was 7 . It doesn’t work when you reach a certain age for it . I am so glad it was done . My eyes are not straight when really tired.

@OnNaturesCourse sorry about his all I'm getting really upset by it.

She has to wear glasses but it's for both eyes and just a general short/long distance issue, the consultant said the squint is minor although mentioned the surgery, she also said the glasses will help pull the eye back in by pulling the muscle

Dd had a squint op age 4 as she still had a squint with her glasses on. She now only squints with her glasses off. It's unlikely she will need further ops. Her prescription is +3 and +5.5 I think and will always need specs

@OnNaturesCourse posts to soon, as the squint could be corrected I decided I would wait and see, I do know that it needs to be done by a certain age for it to work best and will review my decision after trying the glasses for a few years x

If glasses correct the squint then no need for an op as then wearing glasses could make them overcorrect. Dd only got her op as the squint was still noticeable with her glasses on

I have to agree - the people I know with squints very much wish they had been corrected when they were young, as they know their chances are much reduced now of having it successfully done. They are definitely noticed and it has affected their self esteem. I have totally different issues, but my parents also decided that I would be taught to be confident and that looks didn't matter and to be happy with who I was. yeah right. With all the will in the world, you can't necessarily make that happen. I'd be seriously researching the balance of risks and benefits to having the correction now. Nothing is risk free - but that includes the risks to leaving them, whether that's stereo vision (I know people who find driving, cycling, etc difficult), migraines, poor self-esteem, etc. I think those risks have to be weighed up just as much as any risks to having the operation (and finding out how common those risks are, in order to make a comparison). You might blame yourself if anything went wrong, but you might also blame yourself in the future if it can't be corrected then and causes problems either physically or psychologically. A better course of action might be to try to not think of either choice as something to potentially blame yourself for, but to know that anything that happened was a by-product of the best decision that you could make at the time in relation to all the factors. There are very real risks to not acting on something as well, but we often ignore that in the decision making process, because it seems more removed from us since we are not having to make an active choice to do it - as a result, we feel better about it/more in control/less like we are to blame. But really, that's just fooling ourselves. There are risks both ways that need to be balanced.