Patients use eye drops for a few weeks after surgery to prevent infection and help with healing. A month after the surgery, patients begin wearing new glasses. This is when they achieve maximum improvement, notes WebMD. If both eyes require surgery, the surgeon waits a month or two before performing the second surgery so the first eye can fully heal.
A patient should contact his doctor right away if he experiences vision loss, light flashes, vomiting or pain that medication does not relieve. In general, cataract surgery is very safe; almost 98 percent of the surgeries have no serious complications, reports WebMD.
