I had surgery on my left eye this morning. Took about two hours. The surgeon moved a peripheral eye muscle about 5mm. and had a look at an inner muscle but decided against touching it today.
That sounds like a shitty day indeed. What was wrong with the muscle?
I may eventually need surgery for a worsening case of strabismus. I can hold it where I want it but it takes effort and eventually leads to headaches every evening.
Scarring tissue from repeated strabismus surgery when I was a kid and the normal ageing process caused the muscle to strain and pull at the eye whenever I tried to look to the right. Other muscles have some scarring, too, but other than removing some scarring tissue he din't do anything to the other muscles.
The enxt time around he'll move and try to repair one of the inner muscles--it's been thinned out and weakened to the point where he was afraid it might snap if he did the corrections now.
if you have a good surgeon you may want to do it while you are young.