Im having eye muscle surgery in a week. I want to know how it will go and how will i be afterwards.?

Question

I was told that it would only take 30min and that I would be awake the entire time..is that true. And Im doing my pre op the same day as the surgery how is that going to go? please help me nobody is telling me anything at the hospital.

Answer 1

I'll assume that you are having surgery on your actual eye muscles.  I've been through two such operations. If the operation will only be on one eye they will probably use a local anesthetic and you will indeed be awake. They will give you a shot to  block the nerve to eye so you won't be able to see anything during the surgery and for several hours afterwards.  

My surgeries were not that painful to recover from - I only needed the pain meds for a day or so afterwards.  In my case the surgeries were for an eye alignment issue, so that was the biggest part of recovery.  It took me about a week to get used to the new alignment - during that time there was some disorientation.   You just have to be patient and realize that it will indeed go away - it just takes time.

You'll also be putting medication in the forms of eye drops and ointment in your eye for several weeks afterwards.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I think that you mean eyelid muscle surgery although I may be wrong.

Either way, when they say you are awake you will be given an injection called medazelam (or spelt something like that). It is often called twilight sleep. Basically you will be awake for most of it although you will occasionally nod off to sleep for a time as well. The good thing is that athough you are awake, you will probably not remember anything about it as it makes you lose your memory.

Now, presuming you are on about eyelid muscle surgery. They cut into the eyelid and do what they need to do with the muscle, i.e cut it, shorten it etc.

Again, either way, when you come around your eye will be bandaged up, and feel sore and tender but you will be given painkillers. It wont be too bad a pain. You will normally have a black eye for a couple of weeks.

How it goes is depending on how well your surgeon goes, but if you ask him, he will tell you a success rate.

Try not to worry and remember that the surgeon probably does loads of these every day.