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Hi all,


My son, who will be 5 next week keeps rolling his eyes - they sort of go off to the side and it looks really disturbing. He says that if he doesn't do it then his eyes hurt. He's not doing it as much when he's concentrating, and he's only starting doing it today, but he's doing it all the time and its really worrying me.

I'll take him to either the docs or the opticians this week but I just wondered if anyone has experienced this before? I'm getting myself into a complete panic about it!


ps, I know I can't get a medical opinion from here, but looking for a bit of reassurance!


thank you

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Could it be a twitch? My son had a series of twitches from that age.

Some didn't last for longer than a few weeks, others for months. One was eye related - he made his eyes go bigger and looked to the side.

No solution other than they pass in time and tend to pass quicker if ignored as much as possible.

Good luck

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Definitely take him to GP or optician. Both can refer to ophthalmogist. Both of my boys has problems around this age. One had exophoria (both eyes), the other a slight squint. Exophoria treated with eye exercise, the other has grown out of it. Nothing to worry about but worth checking out.
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