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I'm glad you did this Iama. My daughter has what you have. She was born with severe infantile esotropia. She had the eye surgery to relax her muscles when she was 6 months old. We were given little probability that she will ever gain 3D vision. She is 19 months now so we still don't know how well she sees and we are told we won't know until she can 'report' back to questions asked (probably around age 4 or 5).

I have a few questions as your experience sounds like a promising one for my daughter possibly.

What was the name of the surgery that was performed on you? Obviously her surgery didn't involve the same procedure that you had when you were awake (which seems to be what really made the difference).

Are there other doctors performing this or is it a new procedure your specific dr has developed?

Would she be able to have this surgery even though she already had one on those muscles?

Is there an age that gets the best results? Is earlier better? Or best after the child is done growing and is an adult?

My daughter still has alignment issues especially if she looks to the far sides or up. Also sometimes when she is 'zoning out' one seems to be a bit exotropic after the surgery. We want her to have the best chance at normal vision so I've been aggressive in doing everything we can and your Iama may open opportunity to do more.

Thanks

I saw that other comment and I actually found the dr who probably performed yours. Is this him?

http://www.rmeyecare.com/d_peterson.html

Did they ever say if there would be a possibility that you would need to go back and have more surgeries in the future? Was this a one time thing where you will never need anything else from this dr?

Edit: grammar

Ha. I'm one of those Internet stalkers (no creepy). I also think I found what surgery you had probably. It's called adjustable hang-back muscle recession surgery.

Here's some info on it. http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=1998;volume=46;issue=1;spage=21;epage=24;aulast=Mohan

I'm definitely going to ask my daughters ophthalmologist if she does this surgery. My daughter's dr may also do this and just couldn't until she was older and could follow directions. I'll see. Thanks for the info!