Well that's something to consider but I just got a patch for different reasons and I'm testing an eye that I was suspecting that was going bad. Holy fuck what's going on is really weird. Basically the lights are going out on the one eye's ability to process. It's clarity is perfectly fine, but it's use in processing is fading in and out. Like the lights are dim and pulsing on it's processing.
So if I patch the good eye only, using the 'bad' one for vision. Then the 'good' eye will continually try to process it's input into the picture, causing a cloud of darkness to go in and out. If I patch the other and only the 'good' eye is seeing, then it's a crisp image with no in and out pulsing.
So I genuinely need to train and strengthen the brain to just use the bad eye, not that the eye is visually under performing.
You have exotropia. Your eyes aren't locked binocularly and you have a single dominant eye you focus with. Tape the other eye shut. A patch won't do. It will strengthen the weak eye. Tape then patch it has to be kept close for it to work.
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