One eye ball is smaller in compare to other

[qwer098]

Hi friends,

I'm 28 yrs old guy from India. I have a problem which is affecting my life, confudence and my career. My right eye ball is smaller in compare to left one since birth. because of this my looks are not good. And hence I couldn't have confidence. I'm crossing age of marriage and still finding hard to get a bride. Giving a picture of my eyes so you may understand my problem better.


Please help me and tell me if this problem can be cured? By operation or transplant or any other way? I'm suffering mentally since my teens. Please docs advice something for my future and my life. I don't wanna die alone.

Regards,

Manoj

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

You need to see a pediatric ophthalmologist. There are a number of conditions that take a trained MD to diagnose.  One eye may be larger than nomal, or one eye could be smaller than normal, both eyes can be normal size but one look bigger because the upper lid is retracted or smaller if the lid droops. or both eyes can be normal size, lids may be normal but one eye socket (the orbit) could be shallower or deeper than it should.

Again it takes a trained Eye MD to work through these. Please work on getting the child in to an ophthalmologist.

JCH MD

[vito_kang]

hi Teekie, I'm from China, my son is 6-month old, its right eye ball is small than the right one, Just same as qwer098. You said qwer098 is because of ptosis. But he sames the eye ball size are really diffirent. And my son is also such situation. Today, are there any way to cure this problem?

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[Teekie]

you will not believe me when i say i have the SAME thing.  I am in the USA and i have never in life found anyone with this.  Mine is a little worse then yours.  I dont think there is anything they can do because the thing is, one socket is totally smaller than the other so you cant put a regular sized eye in the small socket.  I got my doctors to match my eye color to a contact and i wear it in the small eye so the eye looks better then it did without.  I have been traumatized by the whole thing and understand your fustrations
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[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

I answered this question on the other "Expert" Eye Forum.

JCH III MD