What Is Recovery Like After Laser-assisted Cataract Surgery?
Recovery from laser-assisted cataract surgery at Shenandoah LASIK & Cataract Center is the same as traditional blade surgery.
After your brief surgery, we’ll place an eye patch on your treated eye. We provide you with a protective shield to wear when sleeping for the next several days. Your vision will be blurry at first, but this rapidly improves in a day or two. Your eye may itch somewhat, but you cannot touch the area at all. You also need to avoid actions that increase blood pressure to your face: heavy lifting, bending over, and other actions that move blood to your face. We provide you with eye drops that prevent inflammation and infection. They also control the pressure inside your eye when healing.
Complete healing can take up to two months, but you can return to normal activity in just a few days. You may or may not require glasses for some tasks after your surgery. This depends on the replacement intraocular lens you selected. If your other eye also has a cataract, we usually schedule the second surgery one to two months after the first.