rmr236

As someone who has ROP and a lazy eye (Though outward), my parents had me undergo the surgery at two. It did not keep, even after wearing a patch for a couple of years on the other eye.

Like you, I also can relate to the fear of losing vision. I had the retina in my left (stated differently, good eye) detach at 17 and nothing has been the same since, especially as I was learning how to drive.

I know above OP you said that you notice people noticing your lazy eye -- People tell me the opposite, that they usually do not notice it unless we are having like a face-to-face conversation.

I cannot look anyone straight in the eyes and it tends to piss people off. Have you had the same experience?

I totally get VERY sensitive and self-conscious, yet I never really have had stage freight or any real social awkwardness (Outside of the normal stuff haha). But yeah the pain is annoying, rarely is it in the eye itself. I have a scalarel buckle over my left eye and that can cause me pain. In my right eye which I have a drag macula on, it sometimes gets ocular bone pain or sensitive to ocular migraines or other headaches. Do you have wet or dry AMD in the good eye? Being a super preemie certainly has its pain, I was born a few years after you at just under two pounds and 26 weeks gestation.