2 Months After Cataract Surgery

[john1969]

It has been 9 weeks since one eye was operated on for a cataract and a resore lense was put in.  I experience the glare, shimmering, etc. I can accept these, but I cannot accept the feeling that the lense is poking through my eye!   Some days I feel like I have a bad contact in my eye that is poking.   I am thinking maybe it is the incision site.  Wouldn't the incision have healed by now or were the nerves severed and will take longer to heal.  I recently had a cold last week and I felt like I was experiencing the surgery all over again.  My eye was so sore and painful, I wanted to rip it out!  

[john1969]

Thank you - I forgot to mention I live in Colorado (high altitude and dryer air)

[Michael J Kutryb, MD]

This feeling should be gone by now.  You should use preservative free artificial tears every 30 -60 minutes as needed and have your surgeon look at your eye and tell you why it is so irritated.  Have a thorough evaluation for dry eyes - that is most like the culprit - dry eyes aggrevated by cataract surgery and possibly still feeling original incision.  You can lie back and put cool, damp cloth over eyes after the tears.  Ripping out eyes strictly forbidden.  See your surgeon asap - it's his job to make you feel better.

MJK MD