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Effects of Intractable Diplopia
I hope someone can offer some feedback to me. I am 54 year old male with a left amblyopic eye that never developed useable sight. The eye has no lens. There is a suppression scotoma that is present centrally and continues to nasal side. Just left of the scotoma there is a small amount of discernible vision, but barely finger counting at 2 ft. distance. What little bit my left sees is. mostly in its medial periphery. Well, for the past 34 years this little bit of information has been causing diplopia (binocular type, compliments of my left amblyopic eye).
I am at the point where the daily struggle to cope with the visual confusion is causing MUCH distress. Closing my left eyelid provides instant relief as does wearing a patch. However, the absence of the peripheral information the left eye provides makes seeing the world with one eye difficult and disconcerting. I feel between a rock and a hard place.
Can someone offer me some encouraging advice? Between the diplopia and presbyopia, I am feeling visually exhausted from the moment I wake up.
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I have strabismus from birth. 3 muscular eye surgeries. I have some vague amblyopia in my right eye but am very left eye dominant. Then I had glaucoma and cataract surgery. My right eye decided it could see better and created “visual disturbances “ like it’s trying to see double but not quite. I’m seeing an adult strabismus specialist. ( they are the only specialist that really can help with this condition) Have they prescribed eye glass prescriptions that have prisms in the lens?
The visual disturbance can be very tiring on the brain. I am becoming visually challenged. My right eye has been doing all the work my entire life but my left eye for the last 30 years has been encroaching a second , blurry and misaligned world into my field of vision. I never developed sight in my left eye so there is no. medical way to develop sight. However, the confusion is wearing me down. My right eye is so tired and lately looking around is a confusing experience when a tired right eye and a problematic left eye are trying to work together. Have you tried occluding your right eye with a patch or a lens?