WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER LASIK SURGERY; The first 4 hours

WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER LASIK SURGERY; The first 4 hours

This article contains medical information composed with real life experiences of BLU Meditravel staff assisting hundreds of laser eye surgeries performed by Dr.Nusret BAS, MD.

“Everything is perfect, your surgery is finished” says Dr. Bas after around 10-15 min take Lasik surgery. He takes out his one-time use gloves and leans back his surgeon chair.

Nurses take the transparent operation drape out of patient’s face and then clean out the face. Since before the surgery, they have sterilized the eyelashes and surrounding area with a yellow colored medical liquid.

Right after, patient assistant holds the hand of the patient to help him/her to sit up, and then stand up.

Generally right after the operation, Lasik patients can walk out of the surgery room by themselves. But patient assistants help them by holding their hands. Sometimes, patients feel that much better so they ask to have a picture with DR.Bas in operation room.

Normally immediate after Lasik, patients see foggy and little blurry. But some patients say they see well than they used to be before the surgery.

Patients should prepare themselves for surgery

BLU assistants make them sit in the patient waiting room for about 5-10 minutes, because some patient’s blood pressure falls down. Main reason of a fall down in body tension is because some patients do feel scared before the surgery and they make themselves anxious.

Some Lasik patients commend; “It was a piece of cake”, and some commends; “It was quite fast”. For that reason, psychological preparation of the patient is very essential before Lasik surgery. If patient is comfortable, then the doctor is comfortable and doing what he/she knows best rather than trying to calm down the patient.

A light pain killer, a box of tissues and a dark enviroment

In 5-10 minutes after the surgery, patient feels a moderate itching feeling, burn and tears comes down from the eye like crying. - As if you have sand in the eye-. However, some patients do not feel these at all. In addition to that, patient would also be light sensitive. So assistants may want patient to put on sunglasses (this prevents patient to rub the eye unconsciously) take him or her to a dark room, gives patient a travel pillow, pain killer, a box of tissue, a cup of water and some candy.

So, a dark environment, a comfortable pillow, a light pain killer, candies and a box of tissues are the best combination for a person who gets Lasik.

Around 30 min later, Dr. Bas makes a check up of eyes looking through with a bio microscope. And prescribe patient, how to use drops. From that time on, patient would be using 2 drops/hour, an antibiotic drop to prevent infection and a steroid drop.

The first two hours are the most uncomfortable hours, but as minute’s passes by this feeling goes away and vision gets better. And in the end of 4 hours, the patient would feel as good as going out and have a dinner.