Eye Op

Scotslass2010 · Sep 30, 2009 3:37AM

My little man will be a year in November and has a squint which switches from eye to eye since birth. It's much worse in his right eye, after many trip to the hospital he has been refered for the operation to straighten his eye up and because he will have the op under 3 years of age he has to go to a Cildrens hospital because they have specialists that deal with babies under the anestetic. They talked me and oh through the procedure i try not to think about it as eyeballs creep me out and what they need to do makes me feel sick, im really nervous but i know im doing the right thing for him in the long run, aren't I?

Sorry just needed to get that off my chest because iv'e been trying not to think about it but i know the op will be soon, anyone esle had there little ones go through the op how long did it take them to recover?

Thanks

Lynsey

Joey0810 · Sep 29, 2009 11:36AM

Hello,
my lo has a squint in one eye. She was looking through one eye at a time but switching which eye she looked through. She wont wear her glasses so I out a patch on her right eye for 30mins a day. The patch has defiantely helped and she has started to use both eye together.

~they to have given us the option to straighten her eyes around her 2nd birthday. InEngland aparrently they wait until their 2nd birthdya. Although in America they say under 18months. This would be for cosmetic reasons.
At present we are not going for the opwill see whether it corrects itself. As its for cosmetic reasons my hubbys in the opinion of waiting until she is older. We will wait and see what her eyes are like when it comes round to may. Our choices may change.

Like you I think id rather not know i think as it makes me squeamish thinking about it, But I do admire the skill of suregeons who perform eye ops.

jennieclarke60 · Sep 29, 2009 12:29PM

I had a squint in my left eye when i was a child, i had the op at 2.5 years old and made such a difference as my mum told me i couldnt see very well at all (she said i couldnt even see clouds and that i thought clouds were only in storybooks) but after the op was like having a different child. I had to wear glasses though out my childhood but from about the ages of 12-25 i didnt need them at all. The bad news is my squint has returned but to my right eye and my sight in that eye is very poor now but is corrected by glasses.

xx

xCALLEIGHx · Sep 29, 2009 12:31PM

some squints are improved by patches, others arnt. execises help, but obviously the child needs to be older than 3!

i had an op on a squint in my left eye at 3. the problem is, it is not permenant. i had another op this year at easter on the same eye but a different muscle and i do need a third on the same muscle as the first op, but cant due to being pregnant. they want to inject botox in my eye ball first, as it gives the same effect as the op but is not permenant, so they can see if there will be any side effects before deoing it. so that's scheduelled in for after baby is born.

this time i was in hospital at 7am, op at 10ish, then thrown out at 1pm!!! when i was in as a child i was in days, not hours.

-kia- · Sep 29, 2009 1:44PM

Personally I would say do as much for your lo as possible as early as possible. I'm a total worst case scenario - I have a bad squint and lazy eye and my mum was dismissed as neurotic (bear in mind I'm 33 and it was when I was a baby and things have changed) and as a result of not enough being done early enough I am mostly blind in that eye.

I did have 2 ops done on the bad eye and 1 on the good eye to sort out the squint though - all before I was 18 months old and I'd have to say from the childs point of view its better to not be able to remember it at all - I don't remember any of it, but then I didn't get anything further done (stupid doctors not believing my mum that I still wasn't right) until I was 5 and I remember the patches and stuff still and I hated them.

Cole has had a minor latent squint which he is seeing a specialist for although they have yet to see it manifest (so now I look neurotic lol!) but I wouldn't hesitate to get the op or anything done for him as early as poss as I'd hate to have him end up like me.

I'm afraid I'm not squeamish about eyes and I'm so horrible I still delight in showing people the scar on my eyeball to gross them out (its just a little bit of barely noticable scar tissue that noone would notice if I didn't point it out so please don't worry that your lo will be scarred- as I said before my op was about 31ish years ago and i have no marks on the other eye which had 2 ops) - but I can still understand how worried you must feel - my goddaughter had a hernia op at 7 months old and I was nervous for her and she isn't my child!! She was absolutely fine though with no after effects from the anasthetic.

Hope the op goes smoothly and works well for your lo
xx

vikkijane · Sep 30, 2009 3:37AM

Hi i have a terrible squint in my left eye and this was left to see if i would grow out of it and i didnt it got worse and because of this i have had the operation to correct it 5 times, it is now sorted.

But my daughter has the same as me in her left eye we noticed it at 18 months and she had the operation at 3 1/2 and it wasnt nice after she woke up she screamed for a bit but after a couple of hours she wasnt to bad and 2 nights later she went to a fireworks display with her grandad and she was fine but her eyes were red for a while after.

She is now 7 and her eyes are perfect and she has had no trouble since, so i would recommend it done earlier in my experiance as they also recover faster as mine took longer. Good luck and hope op goes ok .
vikki xx

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