Dry eye after month cataract surgery it’s normal?

Definitely normal after cataract surgery. Remember, you had a big surgery on your eye and have used lots of medicated drops after. These can effect the way your eye produces tears. Try to find drops without preservatives and hopefully it improves for you 😃

Hello elena, your doctor is right. Everybody has to cope with dry eyes after the surgery. As kevin said: postop-eye drops contain antibiotics, cortison and steroids and destroy the orginial balance of your tear fluid. Therefore use your eyedrops without preservatives during the first weeks/months whenever needed. Balance and recovery will be achieved in time. I don't need eyedrops anymore after bilateral IOL-implantation three months ago.

It's very individual. For example if you had dry eyes before the surgery it will take longer. I heard sometimes it will take six months for full revocery.

Best wishes, assia

Totally normal. Could take a long while and sometimes it doesn't go away. You can get preservative free drops that are better for your eyes. Systane has that available.

Also sometimes taking a daily flax seed oil capsule or Omega can really help with dry eye. I take one daily and rarely need the drops.

I had one eye done about 4 months ago. My post op drops ended 3 weeks after surgery. I can't say I have any real issues with this eye. I am using a contact in my non operated eye, and it gives me issues of irritation occasionally. I use Hydrasense Advanced eye drops with sodium hyaluronate 0.15%. It does seem to help with my contact eye, and I also occasionally use the drops in my IOL eye as well. At the rate I use it, the little bottle is likely to stale date before I use it all. I don't use it as a matter of routine every day or multiple times a day.

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One theory I have read is that older people are more likely to have dry eyes, and older people are most likely to have cataracts and cataract surgery. So, dry eyes may be an issue of coincidence rather than an issue of surgery causing dry eye. I am 71 so likely susceptible to both issues.

100% normal, the soonest it will go away is months, the longest is it will never go away. Its part of the risk to any procedure that will involve the eye.