Good resources for those who want a second or third opinion on strabismus
issues is to find your friendly neighbor hood developnmental optometrist.
They may also be under the heading behavioral or functional.  They can
sometimes help with non-surgical intervention.
Also, try finding out if Botox injections are indicated.

Elizabeth Thiers, OTR
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homepage: http://www.bv.net/~john/bethsot1.html

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> From: Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Eye surgery
> Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 12:37 PM
>
> Dave,
>
>         I am not a MD, but in grad school, I administered hundreds of
> Telebinocular Vision Tests. There were four muscle balance tests on the
> Telebinocular(near point and far point). I noticed that muscle balance
was
> quite unreliable and very susceptiple to fatigue. Since then, it's
bothered
> me that people are advised of surgery due to the results of one test on
one
> day.
> Go to an optometrist and see what they say.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Bobby
>
>
> >A while back I sent a message to the list about my impending eye
surgery.
> >The doctor I had an appointment with at first decided he was too afraid
to
> >do the surgery because of my asthma and seizures.  I'm sure this is
common
> >because of people's ignorance about disabilities in general.
> >
> >Because of this I went for a second opinion and received a very
interesting
> >bit of news.  After doing testnig he determined that BOTH eyes have
problems
> >with drifting.  This is interesting to me, because I had never noticed a
> >problem on my left(non-affected) side.  He said this was most notable
when I
> >looked up in that my eyes would both drift out.  He called this a "V
> >pattern" and said that this also accounts for my lack of depth
perception in
> >both eyes.
> >
> >I remembering hearing that a few on this list have had eye surgery in
the
> >past.  Have any of you experienced thsi V pattern resulting in surgery
on
> >both eyes?
> >
> >Dave, 27 yo Right hemi