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October 14, 2008, 1:28 pm
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After a lifetime of problems I have finally been told that I have binocular instability. Its apparently common but opticians are not trained to pick it up. I cried when I was told, because it means I'm not nuts!!

So next comes discussion of treatment, but I'm not sure what that means. Any ideas how they treat this?

I've heard of this but haven't experienced it, nor known anyone who had it treated. Don't they use special glasses with prisms in them, to help shift the image back properly?

There are also some special exercises that are used to train the brain to see the two images as one again, but I don't know how they are performed. Coloured overlays can help with the blurring of writing, lowering contrast on PCs and using lower wattage light bulbs in the house.

I don't even know what binocular instability is, I had to look it up. I am near sighted right now and I am not sure how long it will last or if it goes any worse with age but binocular instability sounds very harsh.