- The first post-op visit is 24 hours after surgery, and the next visit is followed by your surgeon, which is 4-6 days later.
- Visit at regular intervals during the first 6 months
- During the first visit, your doctor will assess your eyesight and eye condition.
- Avoid applying lotions, creams, or cosmetics around the eye for at least a week or until your doctor allows.
- Avoid violent sports such as boxing, soccer, karate, etc. for at least 10 weeks
- Avoid scratching and scratching your eyes in the first few weeks after surgery
- During the first few months after surgery, there is a possibility of fluctuation in vision. Your visual stabilization in PRK and LASEK may take 3-6 months and during this period you may experience symptoms such as impaired night vision in driving, glare in the field of vision and luminous auras.
- Wearing sunglasses helps you to tolerant postoperative conditions.
** If you feel severe pain at first night after surgery, consider the following tips:
- Do not worry
- You can take more painkillers and even use suppositories.
- Rest in a semi-dark room
- Use ice compresses with towels or towels that are placed in the refrigerator.
- Drop eyedrop into the eye only by lowering the lower eyelid
- can bathe on the second day after LASIK and 3-5 days after PRK, LASIK and epiLASIK until repairing the epithelium and contact lens removal.
- First days, prevent water get entered into the eye
- Use baby shampoo for washing
- In early days, just perform your ablutions with earth or sand
- Avoid watching TV, reading, working with computers and other activities that cause eye fatigue; however, they do not cause damage to the eyes and not produce refraction again in the eye.
- No worries about visual fluctuations, slight burning and headache in the first few weeks
- Use of eye drops and other prescribed medications