Originally Posted by marytheres
Originally Posted by polarbear
Someone above mentioned VT doesn't last - and we're finding that to be true for our dd - she's starting to have vision issues again, but my gut feeling is if we could get her to do her exercises she'd not have the loss of muscle tone and wouldn't be dealing with regression in vision. While it's true that the exercises are work and have to be done daily (our dd had to do them twice daily for quite a while) - they aren't *that* horribly terrible and some of them were even fun for a child.

polarbear

This really concerns me. I plan on asking about VT in conjunction with surgery to help maybe prevent this? I have no idea as I have not asked yet ... I touched on it briefly with one doc and she said we could talk about that (ie explore the idea of surgery in addition to the VT) but we haven't yet. Polarbear or anyone else - do you have any info on how to truly "fix" (aka get lasting results) the problem of strasbismus? Is surgery and therapy a way to get that or is this it? Is this a challenge that will keep coming back to haunt DS? frown
I gave a call to one friend who has done VT for her child to get her opinion and she felt that the dr we were considering initially was very aggressive and that she wouldn't recommend that route. She did also say that she's seen the same thing as above with the impact fading over time and her child needing to go back for more VT repeatedly. OTOH, she was generally positive and would recommend VT just a different doc (whose name I am going to edit out from above - lol).