u/RiviereArgent

So my prescription was that my left eye was +5.25 and my right eye was -1.75 with prism and astigmatism. My left eye is lazy. At my last doctors appointment we have discovered that my left eye has basically no vision power. No lens she tried would make it see clear. So she has decided to try a balance lens but purposely removed the prism. When I asked her about no prism she told me to "just try it."

So I'm trying a balance lens right now of -1.75 with a cheap pair from amazon. So they have no PD in it either since its not custom at all. I have noticed when I first put it on my eyes will align, but after awhile my eye will go lazy. As for double vision its basically the same amount as if I have my prism glasses on, but it is worse when I don't have glasses on. I called them today, and they said it would be the prism that helps the alignment. She said try for two more weeks then call back if I still have issues.

So I did go officially put a prescription in at an eye center and awaiting them to come in, since I can have them change if needed. Am I gonna end up needing to have some prism put back in, or will just getting the my balanced prescription with PD be enough to stop my eye from drifting? I keep seeing mixed things online if prism does or does not play a part in that.

I didn't have my eyes checked until I was 5 years old, and it was only because my school took pictures. For years now, I have been wearing quite the crazy glasses prescription: +5.25 in my left eye, also lazy, and -1.75 in my right eye. The left eye also causes double vision and I had an extremely strong prism in my lenses, and I still had double vision even with my glasses.

I had my annual eye exam Thursday, where my doctor decided to try something and tried all kinds of lenses in my left eye. Nothing would make it see clear, everything is a blur in that eye. She is now trying me on a balanced -1.75 prescription with no prism, since there's no point in putting all that power in an eye that's not working anyway. Kinda nervous to try it, but again, whats the use if my eye isn't using the prescription anyway.

Thinking back, I realized I've been this way for years, no doctor just decided to look deeper into it like that. I've always noticed I manly see from my right side. I can block my left eye with my hand and see no difference except some peripheral vision.

I just wanted to rant a minute. Even though this has probably going on all my life, just finally realizing my eye wasn't working the entire time like I thought is bumming me out.

Ever since I was a child my left eye has been lazy and misaligned and I have worn very heavy prism glasses. My prescription for my left eye is +5.25 with prisms for both eyes as 1BU/4.5BI/1BD/4.5BI (vertical and horizontal prism). At one point the BI numbers were up to 6, but my doctor didn't wanna use so much prism. Also has astigmatism. My double vision is absolutely horrible and not even glasses solves the issue, but helps a lot. My right eye however, is pretty strong standing with a prescription of -1.75. I have had prescriptions like this for 20+ years now (I'm 26).

During my eye doctor appointment yesterday she has discovered that my left eye basically has no vision. Like it can still see, but everything is extremely blurry and no prescription was changing that. She also discovered that my right eye basically has cured itself of its astigmatism. She had me try on a test pair of balanced -1.75 for both eyes, and I saw really clearly where my usual prescription was blurry (but I was also dilated it's normally not blurry). But I only had it on for like 30 seconds, not enough to really test my double vision in them. She wants to change me to balancing lens and do no prism. I mentioned the missing prism but she was very adamant saying "just try it". I did google that this can possibly cure my double vision since my brain will maybe learn ignore the eye. But I absolutely HATE my lazy eye. I'm unsure if she's willing to go the prism route with the balancing if my double vision doesn't get better. And my lazy eye will just get worse if my brain gets trained to ignore it with no prism. My current prisms do make my eyes align when wearing my glasses. She is OK with keeping my current prescription too, which I may do just to not have a obvious lazy eye, but it is very expensive even with insurance. ($183 for JUST LENSES. That does not include frames).

So is there anything really to lose with doing the surgery? I already have horrible double vision and as far as seeing goes the eye is basically useless.

So I took a test and I got a match saying they match as my aunt on my dad's side. But the weird thing is, the account name is my biological dad's name, the account has no family trees or anything, and hasn't logged on in over a year and the account was only made a year ago. Just a blank account stating it's my aunt with DNA results attached with my dad's name basically. Messaged my dad, he said he has never taken a DNA test. I know he has two sisters, and I put them in my family tree, but its not linking to either of them. One of them also had passed away in 2017, so it can't be them. I told my dad about the result, and he didn't really react to it other than "Lol". Tried to give him a nudge to also test and he didn't seem interested. I don't recall him having any brothers either, and double checked with my brother (same dad and mom) who said as far as he knows, he doesn't have any brothers. I tried to message the account but never got anything back.

Anyone else have a weird unexplainable result like this? I'm sure they got my DNA accurate because it also matched me with my uncle and my granduncle on my mom's side and I know them.

Edit update/clairfy: So I do have a half sister that I know of on my dad's side, and I messaged her and she said she has never done a test and also doesn't have a clue who it could be. I am unfortunately not very close to my dad (we didn't talk until like 2 or 3 years ago because my mom is spiteful and holds grudges; growing up family drama stuff) and he doesn't reach out to me too much anyways. I unfortunately do not know too much of his family members other than my aunts and grandparents. This mystery aunt (or half sister as some say usually comes up similar) and I share 1,902 cM and 40 segments. Currently trying to dig other matches family trees and using ProTools to see if I can find anything, but unfortunately not finding much. Debating on reaching out to some cousins and see if they're willing to give insight.

So I work in the pharmacy and apparently our deli has been struggling lately. My pharmacy manager sent out a message stating someone needs to volunteer to go cross train into the deli or else they are just gonna have to pick someone. Can they really make you cross train if you don't want to?

Edit: clarification.