What Is The Recovery Like After Lasik?

Most people know that lasik has a quick recovery. This is a good reason why lasik has become so popular. If you ask someone who has had lasik years ago, they may have even forgotten that lasik had any recovery whatsoever! Lasik does have a small recovery, however, and this recovery can be broken into two parts.

Most of the recovery after lasik is within the first day

Initially everyone has some degree of burning or scratchy eye pain, light sensitivity and difficulty keeping the eyes open. This fortunately goes away after about two to three hours. It is for this reason that many surgeons recommend taking a nap after lasik so that you sleep through this portion. Also, immediately after the surgery, many people notice an improved yet still blurry vision. This vision continues to magically sharpen up over the first six hours until the joy of getting lasik starts to become a reality.

During the first few days after lasik vision still won't be at 100%. It is normal to have a haze with your vision, almost like looking through a fog. This fogginess fades over the first few days of lasik. And after that, we are on to the second and longer recovery of lasik.

The recovery from dry eye and some halos around light

Everyone after lasik will have short-term dry eye as well as some halos around lights. Everyone after lasik will have short-term dry eye as well as some halos around lights. Fortunately, for many people, the dry eye improves pretty rapidly and becomes occasional or infrequent by the one month mark. In some, (especially those with some preexisting dry eye) the dryness can take a little bit longer to heal.

Modern lasik technology has greatly improved the symptoms of halos after lasik. But some people can notice short term halos in the first month or two after lasik. Rarely are these halos bothersome. But similar to how dry eye heals up, the same happens for halos after lasik. Over the course of the first few months, these symptoms diminish.

Lasik is a very nice procedure to undergo and get out of glasses and contact lenses. There just isn't a whole lot to recover from after the procedure. But being prepared and knowing what to expect makes the process even easier!

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