After the LASIK procedure, your eyes will feel like there is foreign body inside them for the first couple of hours. They will simply close, even if you try to keep them open. There will be lots of watering, and they will seem red. All these symptoms should be gone after a few hours. If not, you should call your lasik eye doctor and ask for advise.
During these first few hours, you should be able to see enough to do some activities. But your vision may still be blurry, so we advise you not to drive or watch television and so on. After the first few hours, your vision will start improving. Overnight, your vision should return more or less to normal (i.e., you should be able to see as well without your glasses as you were able to see with your glasses before LASIK). Don’t worry if it is marginally less, though. It will recover in about a week’s time.
You should be alarmed the next day if:
a) Your vision is very blurry
b) Your eye pain is unbearable
c) You are not able to keep the eyes open
d) There is a pus like discharge from the eyes
e) Your eyes are red and blood shot. (Some red spots in the white of the eye are normal after LASIK, and will disappear in a couple of weeks).
In India, it is quite dusty. You are advised to keep sunglasses on throughout the first day, and later for a couple of months after the procedure, whenever you go out, or whenever you are in smoky or dusty conditions. Don’t rub your eyes for at least a couple of months after the procedure.
Don’t swim for two months after the procedure. Don’t lift heavy weights for a week after the procedure.
Have a normal diet, and unless specified here, resume a normal lifestyle one day after the LASIK procedure.
Do wash your face and the area around the eye. In India, one often has water which is contaminated. So don’t splash water into the eyes for a couple of months after LASIK, or at least till you are on eye drops.
Follow the eye doctor’s instructions on medications, and do keep to your follow up visit schedule.