Took a month or so to settle down?
if i remember, more like three months to settle totally - but let me detail my experience;
left surgery 2pm ish thurs
taxi home (couldnt really see anything - much like an out of focus camera, underwater)
spent the rest of the day laying in bed putting drops in every few hours (actually the Mrs did the drops - but that say more about me than anything!!)
gotta be honest - eyes hurt (burning) like hell that evening and the next day. but then i had just has them burnt!
went for a following up 9am the next day (less than 24hours they ussually say to wait) - have vision GHod enough to drive. (although it was dodgy enough walking!!)
it hurt to watch tv for more than a few hours the next couple of days.
went into work on mon and did an intense IT training course for the week - vision was still blurry (on a scale of 1-10, 10 be healed, 1 being vision when not wearing my glasses), it was probably a 3 -4 all week.
eyes were really red and freaky looking all week.
after the first week i really started to notice my eyes calming down - the antiinflamitories and antibiotics you have to take (every 3 hrs if i remember) do kick in well and work brilliantly
after that eyesight got to about an 8 pretty quickly, but still very, bloodshot looking (went to an interview that week and they commented on my eyes!)
i would say after a month it was an 8.5-9. then took another few months to settle to a 10 - i still have a little blurred vision at some acute angle in certain light conditions
for me - 6 months was the total healing time......but im talking 100% completion. in reality, 1-2 weeks and you are pretty much "normal".
personally i would say take two or three days after the op to rest up (from my experience that is)
worst thing is having to tape plastic cups over your eyes before bed everynight - bloody annoying to sleep with those on!
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in summary, the op is VERY intense - most intense 15mins of concentration if my life. you smell the smell of burning flesh as they burn your cornea (its a lovely smell IMO!!), your eyes will sting like someone has burn them and then poured vinegar in for appx 10 hours afterwards (although this is helped a fair bit by drops) and water will steam out of your eyes like an open tap
i have had two side effects - some halo-ing in low light and an increase in "sleep" (the white stuff) building up and needing wiping away, although that has decreased over time if not gone away (maybe it will go back to "pre surgery levels" in a year or so)
