Binocular Error

binocular amblyophia?

hey i have amblyophia in both of my eyes due too refractiive error i think is this dangerous i am 17 and i need my eyes for yers to come. its not noticible but often drifts when i look at things for long
any improving suggestions?
any at all?
any hope for a cure? i know there is none now

Bilateral amblyopia is also know as isoametropic amblyopia and can only be due to refractive error as you stated it was. Your “double vision” may be caused by not having your refractive error fully corrected. Most isoametropic amblyopes are farsighted. Your eyes may try to compensate for the blur by focusing the lens inside the eye. The neural mechanism responsible for this simultaneously makes the eyes turn inward. This works great if you have no distance Rx and are trying to read a book because your eyes need to be turned inward to see something close simultaneously, but if you are trying to see distance you don’t want your eyes pointing in your brain has to try and push the eyes back out to align for distance. If this doesn’t happen properly you can get double vision.

At any rate there is no cure and likely will not be anytime soon. The reduced vision is caused by the lack of development of optic pathways in the brain. It is like trying to feed an HD signal into a standard definition TV. No matter what the signal is the TV doesn’t have HD resolution capability. Until they figure out a way to improve neural circuitry it is unlikely vision will be able to improve. Unless you have an additional eye turn patching probably won’t do much, especially if your vision is equal in both eyes.

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