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Strabismus surgery result, not entirely content, suggestions?

Strabismus surgery result, not entirely content, suggestions?

Hello,

I'm 19 years old now. When I was young (5-9 age) I was a bit cross eyed, but did not need surgery. Instead I was given excersises to train my eyes to work normally. That worked. For a while. Until it weakened, got headaches and began having problems with my eyes (left eye going inward) again.
Until I was about 15/16. Now, a year ago I came forth with my problem (nobody really noticed i had problems with my eyes)and together with my mother I went to several eye-specialists. It was a long journey, but finally, last June I got a small operation done to my left eye, to position the eye normally (cosmetically, one muscle)
At first I thought it was going fine, that the left eye was going straight, but maybe this was just a overall confusion.
Now, about two months later I don't feel too happy or confident.

I still feel that my left eye goes inward and stays there too much ( seperate Q: for some reason it looks more inward when i have my glasses on, to me atleast, do you have an idea why doctor? this is important to me)
Also, i feel a lot, mostly constant presure on my left eye. The thing is, i can only look with one eye at a time ( for some reason  happened when i was bout 18), which is my right. However whenever i look with my right eye i feel constant and irritating presure on my left eye, which makes it really hard to look straight ahead. I had this before the operation, but i'm not sure if it became worse after it.

Do you have any advice? Any help? 2nd operation? What i could ask the doc? I have a checkup with the eye-specialist next thursday..Thanks!

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this is very, very difficult to fix in an adult.  possibly UNfixable.  

but:

"seperate Q: for some reason it looks more inward when i have my glasses on, to me atleast, do you have an idea why doctor? this is important to me"

if you are NEARSIGHTED and your glasses have MINUS power in them, then this makes perfect sense (and will be difficult/nearly impossible to fix w/o further surgery OR making the Rx in that eye "blurry").  if you are FARsighted and your glasses have PLUS power in them, then i have no iodea why and it does not make sense.

the strain/pressure on the left eye is b/c its pointing in.  fix the pointing in and yu'll fix the "pressure" feeling.

you may need PRISM glasses to fix this.

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