In 1993, after 7 years of double vision and wearing very thick glasses with prisms, I did have muscle eye surgery to correct my double vision. The doctor is was a pediatric eye surgeon, and the surgery improved my vision. However he did not succeed in correcting my left eye totally. He told me he was not sure he could correct that eye completely. The brain compensates and is able to pull both eyes together. I have prescription glasses with a small amount of prisms in them. I don’t wear them all of the time. I do wear them when I drive. I am really glad I had the surgery because living with extreme double vision for the rest of my life is something I did not want to do.