I was wondering if anyone had heard of amblyopia having a "sudden" onset vs. it being a gradual loss of vision? My daughter has been being seen by an ...
MBJB340@...
Jan 1, 2004 6:53 pm
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Jill, I am not sure about a sudden onset of amblyopia. However, our 10 year old had gone to the PO since he was 12 months old, every year. His eyes were...
Hi Juli, ... it being a gradual loss of vision? I have not heard of rapid onset, although it seems as though it could happen gradually over time since visual...
That was my understanding as well, that this was a gradual process of declining visual acuity that if left uncorrected would develop into amblyopia. In my ...
MBJB340@...
Jan 1, 2004 10:02 pm
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Joann, Thank you for all of the advice about patching. I'm sure the info will be useful. To answer your question I really don't know how identical twins...
Hi, I posted couple of months ago. My son Evan is 4 years and 9 months old and was diagnosed with lazy eye when he was 4 with 20/400 on his right eye. He is...
We go to Dr. Hunter at Boston's Children's Hospital. He's awesome! Joann ... From: chang030201 To: LazyEye@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 5:54...
We go to Dr. William Boger in Arlington (Lexington Eye Associates) http://www.lexeye.com/ Wesley was diagnosed when he was 4 yrs 3 months with amblyopia only,...
LazyEye is an email list for parents of children with amblyopia and related conditions such as strabismus. Adult amblyopes are also welcome. We are not...
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Jan 3, 2004 3:28 pm
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Hi, I just posted an intro but I haven't seen it come through yet, hopefully there isn't a problem. (I'm posting directly from the YahoGroups website.) ...
Hi all, My daughter, Amelia just got diagnosed with ambylopia yesterday morning. She is 5 years and 2 months old. We had no clue there was anything wrong...
Hi Shelia, Welcome to the group. I'm sure you will find it a great support system. ... He says the Dr didn't say anything about 20/20 vs 20/200 etc but only ...
Hello My four year old son just about 3 weeks before had a surgery (Rectus surgery "one muscle" in both eyes. He was having squint in both his eyes. Before...
Hello, We had the same thing to happen with our son, only one year earlier. What a shock it was to us. I had never heard of Amblyopia until my son's...
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Jan 4, 2004 11:44 pm
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Hello everyone, wishing all of u a bvery Happy New Year. I took my daughter Aparajita to the ophtalmologist yesterday and her vision has improved to...
... her vision has improved to 20/30!!!!!!!!!!I was estatic. I don't have any suggestions since I'm new to this list and we haven't even started patching since...
Dear Simran, 2]Since she had such a rapid improvement should I not patch at least for some more time for further improvement? This is exactly what we ran...
Congratulations on your daughter's rapid improvement! I do not have a lot of experience with this; I can only offer what my son's treatment is. My son had been...
Here are a few items that will hopefully make this list more manageable and a fun place to hang out. 1. HELPFUL ADDRESSES (POSTING AND UNSUBBING) Post message:...
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Jan 6, 2004 1:38 pm
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The holidays were jam-packed for me as I'm sure they were for many of us. I am surprised at how many of us had checkups during the holiday season. I guess...
Congratulations!!! One more to show that it never hurst to try patching no matter how old they are!! My daughter improved from 20/200 cv in April to 20/30cv in...
Simran, I have many of the same thoughts that Joann does. Why quit now? It's such a great accomplishment to now have 20/30! It's spectacular! But why not...
Hello Simran, Congratulations on your daughters improvement. Our daughter (age 7 yrs) was diagnosed in September with amblyopia. The weak eye was 20/200....
... Judy, I'm very new to all this (my 5yo daughter was just diagnosed with amblyopia 4 days ago) but I was curious about this 6 days on / 1 day off type of...
... That's what I kind of wondered, thanks for your reply, Kate. (And by the way, it was a godsend to find your journal online and this group!) - Sheila p.s....
Thank you all for the response.It's such a pity that doctors are so "myopic" in their views on treatment of 'older" kids......we have seen so many older kids...
Joann,thanks for answers to my queries.......My concerns are exactly what u asked the PO. I agree with u totally that patching has become such a routine.and...
Hello Judy, I know that my doc has a negative attitude in treating older amblyopes.When he saw the improvement in my daughter he passed it off as a kind of...
We didn't start patching Ann full-time. The first day was a Thursday, we waited until after school and the plan was to patch her for just a few hours. I don't...
