Hi all,

I had surgery just over two weeks ago, on just one eye. I'm male, early
40s, had it since I was maybe 9 years old. The doctor was very
confident of at least a cosmetic fix, which was my primary concern.  He
was highly recommnded to me by TWO eye doctors. I had double vision the
first few days, so obviously the correction was made. That cleared
up... and at 5 days post-op the doc said my eyes were "cosmetically
straight". That was very hard for me to tell because the red was so
distracting.

My next follow up is in another week, which will be almost one-month
post op.

I am very confused and upset. As anyone who has lived with this knows,
the offer of a cosmetic fox is HUGE to us. My hopes were set quite
high. Well I dont understand what has happened because now it looks to
me be 70 or 80% back where it was. Maybe I am just tired but I dont
know, does it vary much from day to day based on fatigue? In any case
it doesnt seem to be anywhere near fixed and this is quite a hope to be
dashed.

I dont understand why the surgery sometimes doesnt work. Is there any
hope that it will be anywhere near OK with a few more weeks of healing?
Does this result tell me anything about the chances of a second surgery
being succesful?

I'm sure my doctor will have some answers in a week, but from now until
then I am desparate to find some hope in all this.