This helps to open the holes and lets fluid drain better through them. Your eye care professional will check your eye pressure shortly afterward. He or she may also give you some drops to take home for any soreness or swelling inside the eye. You will need to make several followup visits to have your pressure monitored. Once you have had laser surgery over the entire meshwork, further laser treatment may not help.
Studies show that laser surgery is very good at getting the pressure down.
But its effects sometimes wear off over time. Two years after laser surgery, the pressure increases again in more than half of all patients. Although your eye care professional may suggest it at any time, this surgery is often done after medicine and laser surgery have failed to control your pressure. Surgery is performed in a clinic or hospital. Before the surgery, your eye care professional gives you medicine to help you relax and then small injections around the eye to make it numb.