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Lasik Eye Surgery Questions & Answers
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Recuperating
After Lasik Eye Surgery
OK. You have done all your homework. You have educated yourself
on lasik and other vision correction surgeries. You have
interviewed and chosen the right doctor to do your surgery.
You went without your contact lenses for the required six
weeks. You took a leap of faith and had the surgery. Now
what? What happens next? Recuperation is the next step.
Although everyone is different, most people who have had a
successful lasik procedure have a quick and relatively painless
recovery. Most go to sleep and wake up the next morning
seeing the world through new eyes. Be sure to follow your doctor’s
post surgery instructions. This could mean the difference between
a successful recovery and a recovery full of drastic complications.
Immediately
after surgery most doctors will require you to rest in
the office for a while and then send you home to sleep
for several hours. This is why it is a good idea to have someone
go with you the day of surgery. Sometimes the doctor will cover
your eyes to protect them from the sun and other things that
will cause problems with healing. Do not take these patches
off until your doctor tells you too. If he says to keep them
on until the next day, follow his instructions. This could
mean the difference between a successful recovery and a recovery
full of drastic complications.
Most
people experience several hours of discomfort after surgery. A mild pain reliever such as acetaminophen or naproxen sodium
is good at relieving the pain and discomfort. You never want
to take aspirin after surgery unless your doctor says otherwise.
Aspirin thins the blood and can cause bleeding from your wound.
There are lots of blood vessels in the eye that will be affected
if aspirin is taken. Your eyes will also feel itchy and you
may have the impulse to scratch or rub your eyes. DON’T! There
is a small chance that you could dislodge the corneal flap
made by the doctor during surgery. This can cause blindness.
So DO NOT RUB OR SCRATCH YOUR EYES! You may also notice sensitivity
to light, but that goes away after a couple days.
While
many people return to work the next day, it is best if
you schedule a few days off of work to recover from surgery. You don’t want to over exert yourself. You need to avoid exercising
and any strenuous activities. If you have a job that requires
you to lift anything heavy or where you do a lot of moving
around or if you work in a place with lots of dust, it is highly
recommended that you take a couple days off to allow your eyes
to heal.
Contact
sports should also be avoided for several weeks. This
is to ensure that nothing gets in the eye that can potentially
damage the eye while healing. You also want to avoid doing
anything that can cause the eye to be bumped or hit. This can
undo everything that the surgery fixed.
During
the first six months be prepared to visit your doctor on
a regular basis for checkups to make sure you are healing
fine. During the first six months your vision will fluctuate
before finally stabilizing. Some dry eye may occur and your
doctor can give you eye drops to counteract the dry eye. This
is because your tear ducts may not be able to compensate for
the new shape of your eye, so it does not produce enough moisture
to keep the eye comfortable. You should contact your doctor
at the first sign of irritation or blurred vision. Timing is
important when dealing with the negative side effects of lasik.
The best advice is to follow everything your doctor says. If
you can make it through the first six months with no problems,
chances are your eyes will do fine from then on.
Lasik is permanent, but your eyes naturally change over time.
You may need to get glasses or reading glasses again in the
future. There is no surgery to date that can fix your eyes
forever. Until then lasik is the way to go. It is the wave
of the future…for now.
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: 2006
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