eye drops to cure a lazy eye - anyone any experience of this?

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My 3 yr old has been wearing patches to try and help his lazy eye. The eye doctor told me today that if it doesn't improve in next 6wks they are going to have to use eye drops.

They put eye drops in the good eye which prevents the child from seeing out of it which then forces them to use the lazy eye. It sounds horrible and dead cruel...and yes I know that it's all for his long term good and yes I know that many other children have much, much worse experiences but even so it's still not nice.

Anyone any experience of this? How did it go? How long did you have to do it for? Did it work?

This is our next step if DS's eye doesn't improve. We have already had a prescription for them as DS wasn't wearing his patch. As soon as he heard the word drops he has worn it happily since.

We were told we could put them in at night so we didn't upset him too much. They don't stop him seeing out of it, just blur it. After 2 weeks you have to go back to get checked out. Boots had to have them specially made for us (but we didn't pick them up as DS wore his patch )

If the patching doesn't work we will have to start using it though.

Good Luck