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HAL9000 So we patch the weak eye to make the dominant eye work harder / get stronger itself as its dominant anyway?

I do not think so, but please note that I am not a specialist and I am only inferring. You are not trying to make your dominant eye stronger. If your eyes are unable to work together, i.e., one eye is lazy, your brain may have a hard time, and temporarily using only the good eye could be less fatiguing than using the good and the bad eye together. Your dominant eye must be able to "see well", though, so, if it is astigmatic, you will need to wear corrective glasses while you are patching. This is not going to make your dominant eye better nor it is going to improve the condition of your weak eye, and in the long term it is of no use according to the neuro-optometrist. He recommended prismatic lenses. The two orthoptists I visited instead prescribed eye exercises and agreed to patching my dominant eye to attempt to teach the weak eye to behave. As I said, different schools of thought…

ryans Thanks for that link, which you had already posted in another thread. In fact, that is how I found out about neuro-optometry, but the closest specialist trained by Dr. Feinberg is two flights / 10 hours away one way and does not work on weekends. Besides, typically one needs a few iterations for such a complex problem. Add the making of the glasses. Not viable for now, but if the local neuro-optometrist cannot help I may consider getting on a plane…

Have you consulted one too?

By the way, six months ago I saw another optometrist that did not call himself "neuro-optometrist", but did carry out pretty much the same tests, in between an optometrist and an orthoptist. So maybe the name of the specialization is not universal.

@mike did you consider checking out neurolens? I read that it has helped serveral patients whoms issues began after lasik, and thet neurolens complety removed their issue.

I wrote to Them on fb and asked if thry have any providers in Europe. They do not but sounded like thry Are looking into opening ik Europe. However, they would not give a eta

mike I do not know what to tell you. That is "their" statistics, not mine. I did not want to say it, but perhaps selling glasses and lenses is their way to make pennies?

CrestfallDreaming I am sorry to hear that. Keep trying!

mike CrestfallDreaming

It could be the case that Mike trained his brain to suppress vision of one eye which made sense if he only use one eye for longer periods of time. This helps his eye muscles to relax.

This is possible in adults and not uncommon especially if one eye has far worse vision than the other even without explicitly training it.

However, VT tries to avoid this most of the time, since it can lead to a situation in which your non dominant eye gets weaker, since it isn't part of your visual system. In Mike's case it is maybe not that problematic if it is only limited to close range.

So if we assume that Mike has suppressed his non dominant eye then doing VT which helps both eyes to work better together doesn't make sense. In this case it could be "helpful/harmful" to cover your non dominant as long as possible when working close range.

CrestfallDreaming if you want to try it with its own risks, it can work since it is not the same as learning binocular vision when over a certain age.

@mike You may have already said it, but can you quickly remind me how you came up with the idea of patching one eye? Was it suggested by an orthoptist or your initiative? Cheers.