Double vision after squint surgery. Any experts/experiences?

[ddoublevision]

Hi I was wondering if there was any eye experts or people who've had similar who might be able to answer a question or 2 I have regarding this. I do have a check up in a weeks time but thought I'd try asking here in the mean time.

I had the surgery on one eye, 7 days ago and have had double vision ever since. I was told this might happen but didn't fully realise how tiring it would be I thought my vision was bad before 😂

Over the last few days I've been patching one eye for parts of the day to get a bit of a break (normally the one operated on - but am trying to take turns). And I will probably need to keep one eye covered when I return to work next week. I will definitely need to be able to see as clearly as possible in my line of work.

I'm just wondering if a) this will slow the progress of getting back to single vision and b) if it makes a difference which eye I patch.

@ddoublevision I've been offered this surgery. Did the double vision improve after a while?

Hi @ddoublevision I have exactly the same questions as you following surgery 6 days ago but I still have only milky white vision in the operated Eye. So can't make any real use of it.
Have you got any advice now you're more than a year on?

Hey, wondering how did it all go for u? I'm due to have this surgery at the end of January. I'm worried about getting double vision post op

Lovecats27 - I don't know what your vision is like before surgery but without the prism in my glasses I used to have only a small central area of single vision, I needed the prism in my glasses to correct the rest.
So the surgery (detaching and reattaching two muscles) was supposed to increase that area of single vision but I don't think it was realistically expected to mean I didn't need prisms afterwards, just less prism.
I bought super cheap distance glasses with no prism online and tried wearing those after surgery. I could cope but didn't feel safe driving. It felt like a continual effort to maintain single vision and was tiring. Gave me headaches.
I've resorted to my old prism glasses which I think give too much help now. Going to opticians for new glasses this week. Hope this helps!
It took at least 2 weeks before I could see well out of the operated Eye so don't plan to do much! I was working on the computer with one eye closed and my face really close to the screen for a week!

You have to use both eyes all the time and not patch one. It is about training your brain to join the images and not focus separately, this is what we were told. Glasses with prism help but a couple of years on double vision is still possible and it’s worse when you’re tired too but with focus it’s a big improvement.

Thank you for your reply. I'm having the surgery for cosmetic reasons, I don't really have any double vision at the minute. I wear glasses for longsightness but I don't need prisms
I'm just worried that I will end up developing double vision post surgery.
I think I'm just getting in a bit of a panic as I'm only having this surgery for cosmetic reasons and I'm worried I will mess up my eyesight.
At the same time having people staring at me when my eye turns out makes me depressed too x

I worried about making my sight worse too but reasoned with myself that this is really common surgery with statistically good outcomes. And I had waited about 20 years to do something about it so thought I should just get on with it!
I am about 11 weeks post op now and although I had a slightly droopy eyelid initially it is now back to normal pretty much. The white of my eye is still slightly red but I'm hoping that will continue to get back to normal eventually.
My eye only turns out at the extremes of peripheral vision so that has never really bothered me as no one seems to notice unless I make it happen. And that hasn't changed since the op.
I'm not sure it's made as much improvement to my double vision as I'd hoped but I know that's not what you're doing it for.
I'm 51 and I suspect you bounce back more quickly the younger you are!!