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Squint management as an adult

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snowmash · 06/04/2010 18:55

Has anyone had any form of squint management suggested other than prisms for a squint that wasn't corrected as a child?

I'm wondering what other options there are than prisms; I have to have fresnels due to the amount o fprism, so lose some acuity.

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CMOTdibbler · 06/04/2010 20:10

Ooh, I used to have fresnels before my second lot of squint surgery. Now I have 11 degrees of prism in my lenses, which works OK.

Is there no chance of them operating ? When I had to take DS to the hospital to have a thorough eye check, the consultant spent most of the time telling me how surgery had got much better now, and he'd sort my eyes out.
I declined to go down that route as apart from having reading and distance glasses to allow for different prism amounts, it doesn't inconvenience me as my sight is so bad anyway, and I have a fabulous optician who specialises in binocular sight disorders so really gets it.

But if I wouldn't have to wear glasses otherwise, I would have gone back for more surgery

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snowmash · 06/04/2010 20:43

That's what I'm hoping to find out in the next few days - whether they are willing to try operating (as my 'local' eye hospital now is much more specialist than my old one). It's good to know that surgery has moved on...

If nothing else, it's a pain to 'have' to go to the eye hospital for new glasses each time - I wouldn't lose the glasses due to bad sight anyway.

Where I used to live, one of the opticians' had an optometrist who would sort out fresnels, but where I have moved to I can't find an optician who will dispense bifocals with fresnels (all the independents suggested boots, and boots said they couldn't measure for them due to the strength needed).

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zapostrophe · 06/04/2010 20:45

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CMOTdibbler · 06/04/2010 20:51

If you are anywhere near, the guy who was certain that he could do mine was at the Queen Victoria in East Grinstead.

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snowmash · 06/04/2010 21:02

zapostrophe, that's great to know (as the theory used to be if it wasn't done early, there wasn't much point).

CMOTdibbler: Thanks, I'm not...but useful to know...

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CMOTdibbler · 06/04/2010 21:06

And I should have said, I had my first surgery at 13, and my second at 18, so not early at all.

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