Hello,
I have an eyeglass prescription of -19.75/-20 with an astigmatism. The glasses your daughter is wearing look like the ones I wear. When I was her age my glasses were awful, they did not have many choices. Ask about having her glasses thinned, if you have not done so already. I am 27 now and have lived with this most of my life.Once she is old enough for contacts she will be very grateful. I actually feel I see better with contact lenses
One way to get an idea of how she sees is to put on her glasses. The way you see with her glasses on is how she sees without her glasses. Just do not wear them for a long time since they can damage your eyes.
If you have any other questions I would happy to answer them.
First off, thanks for the reply!!
I have asked about having her lenses thinned, but you can't w/her prescription (from what I've been told).
As far as me looking through her glasses, I have done that before because I had read before that that was the solution, but then I heard it wasn't.
About contact lenses, her eye doctor had said that he has seen a lot of little kids wear them, but she is scared of them at this point so I'm not going to force it on her. She'll get there eventually. He said that she would still have to wear glasses, but nothing like the ones now. We went ahead and ordered her a pair and went in for a few different appointments to try to get her to try them on, but she was too scared. She was all about watching me do it since I stupidly volunteered....never having wore contacts before. I was SO glad I did it though because I was surprised with how they felt. I always thought that it would really feel like having something in your eye, but it really wasn't bad at all. I had to ask the girl that was helping if it was really in there or if we were just trying to fake Ky out so she'd try them. So, until SHE'S ready to try them, we're stickin' to her stylin' frames. ;)
Your child has pathologic progressive high myopia. At age five her vision should be easily quantifiable by how far down the chart she can read with glasses on. It is not possible to tell her vision from the glasses RX just as its not possible to tell a person's weight or height from knowing their shoe size.
She needs to be under the care of a pediatric "team" as she likely will need to see a pediatric ophthalmologist and periodically a pediatric retina specialist. You don't indicate where you live.
Many US ophthalmology departments are set up to take care of young patients like your daughter. Emory University in Atlanta where I trained is one place and the Department of Ophthalmology at Kansas City's Children's Mercy Hospital is another. Often exams need to be done under anesthesia and these clinics do them right there rather than the hospital. Children's Mercy Hospital in KC Missouri has set up the first Pediatric Refractive Surgery Clinic under the direction of pediatric ophthalmologist Scott Olitsky MD and Erin Durrie Stahl MD.
Be sure your other childre if any are checked as well as nieces and nephews as this often runs in families. These problems are more common in premies and low birthweight. Also there are a group of diseases (syndromes) in which Ear and Eye abnormalities occur together (e.g. Usher's Syndrome).
JCH MD
Dr. Stahl and Dr. Olitsky are doctors that we see. Children's Mercy in KC is the team that keeps check on the things you mentioned above. She has been 'put under' and checked for retinal tears/detachment signs, etc. Her vision and ears are something that we keep a VERY, VERY close eye on. As far as the syndromes/disorders/diseases..... we are actually going back up there this week (on the 13th) because Ky had a microarray done and we are going to meet up with the genetics team to see if Stickler's, Marshall's, Usher's, etc. are going to be diagnosed.
Thank you SO much for the reply! Everything you said is on the list of things we have already been doing/working on. It tells me that we are still on the right track!
I know both of those two pediatric ophthalmologists and they are world class and the referactive surgery pediatric center is the first of its kind in the world.
Be sure to discuss with the peds Eye MDs things like eye protection, recommendations for sports, amusement rides, etc.
JCH MD
Thanks again! We've known that kind of thing since day 1, 4 years ago. We were told immediately about the risks of contact sports, hard hits to the head, etc. She's VERY happy....and we're VERY cautious! ;)
My son have high myopia -16and stasionarry night blindness both eyes and his 4 years old I need a doctor for this case I leave in new York to help him the max to slow his myopia progressive
I do not know any personally. You can go to www.geteyesmart.org and look for a pediatric ophthalmologist near where you live.
JCH MD
My son have high myopia -16and stasionarry night blindness both eyes and his 4 years old I need a doctor for this case I leave in new York to help him the max to slow his myopia progressive
I do not know any personally. You can go to www.geteyesmart.org and look for a pediatric ophthalmologist near where you live.