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Eye exercises after cataract surgery

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roni88316
roni88316

How long should I wait after cataract surgery, before doing eye exercises (involving eye movements to all directions)

Thanks

Roni

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  • Sue.An2
    Sue.An2 roni88316

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    There shouldn't be any restrictions on eye movements after cataract surgery. what kind of eye exercises were you thinking?

    Years ago I recall my grandmother having to look downwards. She'd watch TV angling a mirror from the floor. A lot has changed. You'll be asked to not rub your eye or put pressure on it from doing strenuous exercise like jogging for a couple of weeks. Avoid bending over to point where you feel pressure and avoid lifting anything heavy as that puts pressure on your eye. I was given an eye shield to wear overnight or any time I took a nap to avoid rubbing the eye.

    Other than that normal activity like walking driving a car household chores is fine.

    You'll also be given eye drops to out in several times a day for several weeks.

    • roni88316
      roni88316 Sue.An2

      Edited

      Thanks Sue Ann!

      I was thinking about these eye exercises you can find online, for example,

      looking left , looking right, moving your eye balls clock-wise etc.

      These should help improving blood flow to the eyes and strengthen eye muscles.

  • RonAKA
    RonAKA roni88316

    Edited

    I found this information for after surgery care of a cataract surgery at a Kaiser Permanente site.

    1. Tape the shield over the operated eye for 1 week.
    2. Avoid strenuous activity or heavy lifting (over 20 lbs) for 1 week.
    3. Avoid swimming for 2 weeks after surgery.
    4. Avoid rubbing or pressing your operated eye.
    5. You may resume driving within a day or two after surgery if you are

      comfortable with your vision, but please do not take unnecessary risks!

    • roni88316
      roni88316 RonAKA

      Posted

      Thanks Ron

      I think I will wait a little with those exercises 😃

    • RonAKA
      RonAKA roni88316

      Posted

      That seems a little strange. This study was done with contacts, and I am aware that contacts can change the shape of your cornea and impact the refractive error. I think that is more likely with hard contacts than soft ones. In any case I believe that is the reason you are told not to wear contacts before measurements are take for cataract surgery.

      As far as the implanted IOL with monovision not being stable, that is the first I have heard of it.

    • roni88316
      roni88316 RonAKA

      Posted

      It is about Monovision contacts - so the issue cannot be the contact themselves.

    • RonAKA
      RonAKA roni88316

      Posted

      There is nothing different about monovision contacts. They just leave you with one eye at about -1.25 D. Having the contact on your eye is something that can temporarily change the shape of your cornea.

      It just doesn't seem probable that having one eye not fully corrected with an IOL would change anything over time. Your eye is not able to change the shape of an IOL lens like it can change the shape of the natural lens. But, I suppose anything is possible... My understanding is that with the lens removed and replaced with a IOL vision is more stable over time. You would not want to have to change IOL prescription as often as we change eyeglass prescriptions.

    • roni88316
      roni88316 RonAKA

      Posted

      Thanks for the info. I was wondering as to the meaning of these results and why nobody mentions that.

      If the action of the contacts on the cornea is the reason, there would be be no point in doing such study, wouldn't it ? I believe they must had a control group of some kind to rule that out.

    • RonAKA
      RonAKA roni88316

      Posted

      It seems to me that the study was a little weird. It seemed to start with monkeys, and then to people with contact lenses. It seems a bit of a stretch to extend that to monovision IOL's in people. If they really wanted to know if there was an issue with monovision IOLs they should have just compared a group with monovision to another group that had monofocal lenses.

    • RonAKA
      RonAKA roni88316

      Edited

      You may find this information helpful. These are the results of 30 patients followed over a period of 10 years. The table below shows the spherical equivalent error of each eye at 1 year, 5 years, and 10 years. I don't see any significant change in the values over the complete time range. This suggests to me that the monovision correction is stable over long periods of time.

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      You can find the complete report by Googling the information below:

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      Monovision Strategies: Our Experience and Approach on Pseudophakic Monovision Misae Ito CO* and Kimiya Shimizu

    • roni88316
      roni88316 RonAKA

      Posted

      That was helpful. Thanks Ron for your efforts .

  • Chris53317
    Chris53317 roni88316

    Posted

    Hi Roni

    I think I started using Eye Care Plus from the Google Play Store about 3-4 weeks after my surgery. That was 8 months ago, and I am still using their training plans 2 or 3 times per day. Who knows if it has made a difference, but the 10-15 minutes a day is not a burden. Had hoped to get an assessment of any changes/improvements to my vision at the 7 month checkup, but that has been put on hold.

    • roni88316
      roni88316 Chris53317

      Posted

      Hi Chris

      Didn't know about "Eye Care Plus". Will check it out.

      Thanks!

  • roni88316
    roni88316

    Posted

    It is about Monovision contacts - so the issue cannot be the contact themselves.

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