After laser eye surgery, you usually avoid driving yourself home, swimming, eye rubbing, make-up, dusty work and contact sport for a short period. We plan the timetable around LASIK or TransPRK, your job, your driving needs and whether your follow-up checks show your eyes are healing as expected.<\/p>\n
Surgery has a habit of landing in a normal week. You may have work on Monday, a school run to cover, a flight booked, swimming planned, or a job that puts you in dust, screens or night driving. The useful question is not how quickly you can act as if nothing happened, but which activities need a pause so your eyes can heal safely.<\/p>\n
LASIK, which means laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, reshapes the eye under a thin flap in the cornea and usually gives faster early visual recovery. TransPRK is a surface laser treatment<\/a> with no flap, which can suit certain eyes, including some thinner corneas, but early recovery is slower because the surface of the eye has to heal. TransPRK sits in the same surface laser family as other no-flap treatments.<\/p>\n