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[quote=Anonymous]I believe your DD is where my DD would be in a few years if we hadn't corrected the vision in her left eye.  At her 5 yo visit to the pediatrician, she did that simple vision test.  Her binocular vision was fine, her right eye was fine but the vision in her left eye was significantly poorer.  We had her checked out be a pediatric ophthalmologist who said there was nothing structurally wrong with the eye but that the good eye was doing all the work and if we didn't improve the vision to the left eye one of two things would likely happen:

1.  In a couple years, her brain would 'turn off' that eye, she would have little vision in it and it would become susceptible to become a 'lazy eye'.
2.  Her brain would continue to try and use the input of that eye but wouldn't be able to do it well, her vision would become blurry, she would likely develop headaches and her reading would be impacted.

We started with glasses but the fashion these days is small lenses and she frequently would be looking over her frames rather than through the lenses.  Her vision, uncorrected, didn't improve so we started patching her stronger eye several hours each day.  The research seems to be mixed on that but the alternative was putting a contact in that eye.  I had a very difficult time accepting that a 5 year old could wear a contact.

We patched for 6 months with very little improvement.  DD was about 6.5 at this point and the doctor said we were nearing a crossroads.  The vision had to be corrected or one of the two things above would be likely to happen.  This wasn't acceptable to us so we went with the contact.  She only needs the one and a vision tech spent about an hour with us teaching DD to put it in and take it out.  The tech was very patient and DD did really well.  Initially, DH and I had to put it in and take it out but we had DD practice it each time.  She's now to the point she can take it out by herself and she can get it in by herself when it doesn't get stuck on her finger.  I have to say, the contact is far better than the glasses.  We observe DD cleaning it each day and we've had no problems.  Her vision is improving and while she likely won't ever have 20/20 vision in that eye uncorrected, it's better than what it was and we don't have to worry about the above 2 things.

Of course, I don’t know but from your description, it sounds like your DD is suffering from thing 2.  Whatever is going on, you need to correct the vision in that eye.  Have you talked to your doctor about your DH’s concerns?  I’ve never heard that getting glasses young has anything to do with the need to get increasing stronger prescriptions.  I don’t know how it would.  Of course, you should talk to your doctor about it as bodies grow, so do the eyes.  I have two other kids who have tone issues and they both have been evaluated by the ophthalmologist.  The doctor told us that at some point, the boys would likely need glasses for nearsightedness.  At this point, their vision is within normal ranges for their age but at on one end of the spectrum.  It might be one year, it might be 5 years but they are likely to be nearsighted.
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