does anyone on here with glasses or contacts have/as had a turn in thier eye and if they have but got it straightened what did you have to do
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rachel
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I'm sorry DYD but that post made no sense to me.

A turn in your eye? What in the world is that?

hello

yeh i wear glasses and contacts but wot is a turn in your eye

jen xxxx

Do you mean like a slightly lazy eye?

sorry i mean lazy eye it can make your eye turn in or out

I know what you're talking about, but I don't have it... one of my best friends has a lazy eye and she doesn't wear contacts or glasses. Sometimes you'll be talking to her and she's looking at you, and one of her eyes looks down or goes the other way than her other eye that's looking straight at you. One of our friends teases her sometimes about it, and she thinks it's hilarious.

I do. I've had 2 surgeries. One when I was a baby and one when I was 11. Before I got the surgery when I was 11 kids teased me everyday, I cried almost every night and had about 1 friend. I got the surgery right before middle school, and no one noticed my eye anymore. Because of it, middle school and high school where bareable for me. I HIGHLY reccomend surgery.

I don't.
I have a 5 year old cousin who has to wear a patch attached to his glasses that covers his lazy eye. I don't quite understand it. Can someone explain what a lazy eye is?

I think you might be talking about cross eyes??? I don't know. I have a 'lazy' eye, that has a really badly scarred cornea, so I can't see anything (other than light/dark/color) out of it. Is that what you're talking about?

A "lazy eye" is basically when one of your eyes wanders, either off to the side, up, or down, without your knowing it. Most people who are labled "crosseyed" have one or two "Lazy eye(s)".

I'll try to explain:

When you have a lazet eye- this is because the eye muscles aren't strong and the vision in that eye is also very weak. With this impaired vision, the eye cannot focus like a normal strong eye does. So you tend to use your stronger eye while the other eye kind of "shuts down" and you don't use it. When this happens you'll automatically put all your focus on to your stronger eye and the weaker eye will sometimes turn in or outwards.

I had this problem in infancy like DanceChamp01 explained, but I had eye surgery twice- once at 9 monthes and again at 18 monthes of age.

I have strabismis (sp) where the muscles behind my eye come loose and I have to have it surgically fixed. I've only had surgery twice though. It's not that bad.

A lazy eye is when the one of the muscles in your eye is weaker, so it will drift off to the side. I used to have a lazy eye, but I got better as I got older. I'm not sure why. I only notice it now sometimes when I'm really tired. My cousin had surgery for it, or if you can wear a patch over your good eye for a few hours every day, to help strengthen the muscles in your weaker eye. I'm not sure if that can still help if you're older, they usually do that with younger children.

my eye is always turned in but when i have my glasses on it straightens i am thinking of getting surgery so i can get contacts do you think i should

I have a turned/lazy/crossed eye, i can only see through one eye at a time, the other one just goes inwards, its not always bad, but it does get really bad, especially when im tired, i really hate it when people make comments about it!! I'm goin to get surgery done on it, because i want it fixed. I wear contacts and glasses as well! i think if you want the surgery then go for it!

strabismis

That's what I have too. I always forget what it's called.

i got a lazy eye or cross eye, it goes in, but wen i wear my glasses no1 can tell, i cant wait im gettin green contacts soon

Sleeping Beauty:

That's so rude people make comments about it!!!

That's like pointing to someone with a limp and saying "uhhhh, you walk funny."

Or telling someone with a acne: "Damn...you have major skin problems."

I can't believe people sometimes.

My science teacher has one..at first before I knew what a lazy eye was and before I knew she had one, I wasn't really sure what was happening, lol. Because she would be talking to me but it looked like she was looking somewhere else, so I'd kinda stop talking..then one day she told the class and I understood. I don't think she wears contacts or glasses though.

I had a lazy eye when I was younger, but I wore glasses for like 8 years and finally grew out of it

One of my friends had it when she was very very young and had the surgry so I only knew once she showed me pictures.Jim Rose of the Jim Rose Circus had crossed eyes(as did most kids in his family) and underwent two surgeries to correct it.He talks disarmingly about it in his book(Freak Like Me) and has great humor and candor about it and other things. Colin Hay from Men At Work has a lazy eye("I come from the land down under where women glow and men thunder"..that guy)He got so tired of people staring and commenting he would deliberately let it wander more to make the obnoxious people uncomfortable, which he says was wonderful revenge and helped him get a good chuckle a their expense..as far as I know he never had the surgery.

I have a lazy eye just like yours and i wear a contact cause its my bad eye go figure. and its fine. I didn't need surgery i mean it will still wander from time to time or when i am really tired but having the contact does not effect it at all.

Shannon

crisy: TRUST ME, you should see some of the people in my school.

before I got my skin fixed: what the hell is wrong with your face? eww look at her acne! why do you wear foundation, it's gross!

when I had braces: hahaha eww you have braces, you're so ugly!

they've also called me flat chested, stupid, a whore... and none of them really know me. I'm so glad I have my friends