It has been a long time since I've updated the information on our son's ptosis. He just turned 3 years old. We recently had his eye checked and his vision is now perfect. It took several months for the vision in his ptosis eye to catch-up to his normal following surgery. Supposedly, in 90% of ptosis cases, the ptosis eye catches up right away (within weeks), however, this did not occur with our son. We patched his good eye for a good 6 months following his surgery then eventually his ptosis eye caught up. At 3 years old, they were finally able to do a comprehensive eye exam with him since he could actually read the eye charts now and recite the pictures and his vision was perfect for his age. In terms of his lid itself, the doctor feels that it may be slightly more droopy then when his surgery first occurred, but nothing of any significance. There is no telling whether he will need additional surgery. He will be seen regularly; each time his vision is checked and his lid is measured until if and when we need to take further action. At each visit we bring recent pictures of our son, and this is very helpful for the doctor to see him on different days, his eye at different times of the day (morning, noon, night) and in different environments.
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