Cataract surgery...how long does it take to heal?

[dflprincess]

15. I was pretty much back to normal the next day

Able to drive. They want you to be a bit careful for a few days, don't get water in the eye, wear the eye guard when you sleep (my doc said for 3 days, I used them for a week with each eye).

I spent most the time between the two surgeries marveling at how much better I was seeing in the "good" eye. It was like I had a piece of yellow cellophane over the eye the still needed suregry.

The weird thing is driving. I had wondered if they'd have to pop the lens out of the one side of my glasses until I had the 2nd surgery, but the sight in the first eye was so improved my doctor said I didn't need to wear glasses when I drove. It's amazing how the good eye just takes over.

As noted above, just use the eye drops like they tell you to do both before & after surgery.


BTW, the surgery itself is easy. Whatever drug was used kept me awake but made me pretty much unaware of what was going on - and the prep took longer than the procedure.