Fairly certain ds2 has a squint [sad] - who do I see, GP or optician?

[Miaou]

I guess he needs referring. Argh. Just been through all this with ds1, had ds2 checked about a month ago and seemed fine. His squint has developed since then and it's noticeable (people have pointed it out). .

(Sounds pathetic but I can't remember who I go to in the first instance; seem to remember with ds1 I went to the "wrong" people first and got shoved from pillar to post to start with)

eeek piff, consider myself lucky!!

Your dd has other issues though iirc - noonans syndrome?

yes Miao but her eyesight is the only thing affects her within that.
she will never be able to drive we've been told.
so tis major life impacting. But she just charges on regardless. She is due to start patching as one eye is very dominant and she is not using the other in tandem.
but if patching does not work then surgery might be option. Scares me tbh
good luck with the squint know literally tons who have outgrown theirs of had it corrected!

piffle, we've just finished 9 months of patching with dd, and although she hated doing it, on her vision tests, there was a real improvement to her left eye. there's a pic of her wearing the patch i made for her on my profile, she didn't like the sticky patches as they kept peeling off, and she also didn't like the patches we were given that sat under the glasses lense as they were pressing on her eye, so i made one that went on top of the lense, so she could keep her eye open, but not see anything

Oh I didn't realise that Piff, that's excellent (ie excellent that it's only her eyesight that's affected iyswim !). LK, that was dd1's issue, the stick-on patches made the skin round her eye sore, but at the time it was felt the over-the-glasses patch wasn't as good. Ho hum, you live and learn!

If it's a regular squint, the patch will work really well, Piffle. I just wanted to say that I had two ops to do with my eyes when I was little, and I have no bad memories of it. I got a really excellent set of britains zoo animals and played with them with the boy in the next bed- that is my abiding memory of the whole thing. I just wanted to reassure you a bit.
I hated the eye patches, though, with a passion. I think yours are fab, Lucykate!

I would second cmotdibbler that only the best people have squints !

Mine was causght at about 18mo - had surgery at about 4yo but they couldn''t fully straighten beacause I am longsighted and the squint slowly improves with time - If they had straightened it completely I would now be squinting outwards instead of inwards.

I also have no bad memories about the op - I had fuzzy felt and was given jelly to eat!

My DH has said that he has never really seen me squint - if I wearcontact lenses my eyes are straight.. And if I am "au naturel" I make my eyes go fuzzy/out of focus and it doesn't show (years of training from my mum for school photos!).

I am currently watching dd like a hawk for any signs......none so far!

Miaou - at least children's specs are nicer than they were in my day - so your ds can still look cool!

and in answer to your OP - it is your GP you should go to first