Process Of Cataract Eye Surgery

Pain After Cataract Eye Surgery Is To Be Expected

You have just had the cataracts removed from your eyes but you are experiencing pain after cataract eye surgery. You are concerned and think that something is wrong. Cataract eye surgery causes pain after operation?

One should not be feeling any kind of severe pain after cataract eye surgery. but more discomfort of some sort. It is normal to feel itching and mild discomfort for a while after eye muscle surgery. In most cases there will be some fluid discharge. This is very common, and you may find that your eyes are extremely sensitive to light and touch.

After a day or 2 you should not have pain after cataract eye surgery and even moderate discomfort should disappear. In most cases, healing should take about 6 weeks.

Discomfort And Pain After Cataract Eye Surgery

After surgery you will be given anti-inflammatory eye drops and antibiotics to ensure that your eye doesn’t get infected. If you need them, you can take over-the-counter painkillers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen.

There are ways to minimise the pain after cataract surgery. It is advisable to wear an eye patch at night and you may even wear one during the day for the first few days to help protect the eye and avoid rubbing or pressing on your eye. Rubbing or pressing on the eye is a normal reaction. We rub our eyes when they itch normally don’t we? In addition to this you may rub your eyes while sleeping.

Constant rubbing and touching of the eye will cause pain after cataract surgery and should be avoided. It is not absolutely necessary to wear the patch during the day and should you choose not to wear the eye patch it may be advisable to wear your normal eye glasses instead.

Preparation For Surgery

In order to prep you for the surgery you will be given eye drops to dilate the pupil. The Doctor will ensure that the entire area around your eye is cleansed and made sterile. In this surgery sterile coverings will be placed around your head.

Duration of eye muscle surgery is less than 30 minutes. It is an almost painless procedure. Most people will choose to stay awake during eye muscle surgery and will have an anaesthetic to numb the nerves in and around the eye area. Drops may be put in the eye and the eye will have to be kept still once the drops go in.

During Surgery

During eye muscle surgery an instrument known as a lid speculum will hold the lids open so there is no need to worry about keeping your eyes open. You will most likely see light and movement during eye muscle surgery, but no discomfort will be experienced at all.

After Surgery

After the eye muscle surgery, an eye patch will be placed over your eye and you will rest for a while. Most people who have eye muscle surgery will be permitted to go home the same day. You will not be able to drive, so always make sure you make arrangements in order to be able to get home.

Causes Of Choosing Cataract Eye Surgery

Choosing Cataract Eye Surgery Over Glasses Or Bifocals

The purpose of cataract eye surgery is mainly to improve vision and quality of life of the patient.

Glasses And Bifocals Only A Temporary Measure For Cataract Eye Surgery

Most people who have cataract eye surgery are so grateful to have better sight afterwards that they clean forget that the condition can return with time again only for them to have more cataract eye surgery later in life again. If it is the patient’s choice of not opting for cataract eye surgery, the only other options for them are glasses or bifocals. However this does improve their vision at first, but the cataract will still continue to cover the lens more and more with time, rendering the glasses or bifocals as useless if they whole lens is covered.

The lens surgery including the extracapsular and intracapsular surgery are the types of cataract surgery.

Pre And Post Eye Surgery Care

The cause for cataracts is still unknown, but it has been proven that it does come with age, sickness, adverse effects to some medication, and if there has been an injury to the eye this could be reason enough too for cataracts to grow therefore inflicting blindness, blurry vision, partial or unusual vision such as extreme brightness or dimming of colours and halos around everything that is focused on. Having cataract eye surgery does not guarantee that the cataracts will not grow back again, as this is just a way to improve your current eyesight.

If you do have a cataract in your eye, it is best you have it removed surgically. The process is done under local anaesthetic within an hour. You will definitely not be able to see perfectly immediately after the cataract eye surgery and you will have to strictly follow the ophthalmologist’s instructions to use your cataract surgery eye drops as prescribed for your own benefit to keep the eye moist while recovering, and to lessen infection from setting in.

While care has to be taken after the cataract eye surgery, it is important to still go for regular checkups at your optometrist where they will perform various tests to see if you suffer with glaucoma or how bad or good your vision may be. Over the counter pain killers are prescribed by the ophthalmologist for relief of pain. While it is not easy to try and not rub your eyes, they will also be relatively itchy and may also ooze some extra fluids after the surgery.