How eyes position themselves when you put eye patch on?

mazury

My patch is just a black tape on one glass. Now when I go from seeing with two eyes to wearing the patch, what exactly happens to the covered eye? Non-covered eye focus direction obviously stays at point where it was focusing before, but what about the covered eye? Does it move to more "neutral" position, does it point straight now or does it follow focus point of the other eye somehow? I don't think it points straight though, because you can tell it's moving when the other eye is moving. However it doesnt point to the same point as other eye, becuase after wearing a patch for a while, and then taking it off, there is a short time (1 sec) when you can tell that this patched eye moves so that now both eyes focus on the same point and images from both eyes are fused.

Another question: should my eyes hurt at the beginning of wearing a patch? Because I just started and they do.

KM

It should move to a different position at least slightly for most people. The German Wikipedia says about 70-80% of the population have a slight heterophoria, where the eyes move inwards when not focusing. It is compensated by the use of muscles and usually does not cause issues.
If you can try to hold the eyes' positions when removing the patch, you can see how far they are misaligned.

should my eyes hurt at the beginning of wearing a patch

Not sure.

arturpanteleev

Hello, i started to do eyespatching(again, a few previouw attemtion were failed) 3 days ago. This time, i do not follow recommendation about palm blocking of screen, i just cover one of my eye fully(i use hat for this).

Unfortunatelly, i am feeling pain while i am patching, but others guys in this forum wrote that they do not have any pain while they doing it. But anyway. i do not have other options and wanna try training like this about a few weeks(or even month. if i can) and lok at he screen with 2 eyes.

Now i make this exercises about 0.5-2h per day(split into a few period) and want to increase this time day by day

ensete

arturpanteleev Unfortunatelly, i am feeling pain while i am patching, but others guys in this forum wrote that they do not have any pain while they doing it

Patching was immediately pain free and offered near 100% relief.

Your issue may not be BVD. Different folks here are triggered by different things. You see plenty of people who are triggered by flicker I am completely unaffected by flicker, colors will trigger me, other people have no issue with any colors. Some folks get help with patching, others don't

If patching isn't helful, you likely have a different trigger thn folks it does help