I have to have surgery to correct my glacoma. I know my vision will be blurry for a week or two so I’m taking off work. But my boyfriend is driving across country and wants me to come with him and fly back. But will it be safe to fly a week or two after surgery?
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What kind of surgery are you having? If it’s the laser kind (usually called SLT, for “selective laser trabeculoplasty”, or ALT, for “argon laser trabeculectomy”) then you should be fine a week or two. If it’s the more invasive kind, i.e. actual surgery to do a filtering bleb or a trab or something, then you should check with your surgeon — off the top of my head, nothing’s coming to mind that would be a serious complication after a week (assuming you don’t have any complications in that week immediately after the operation!), but I’m also not a surgeon
i’m almost positive that you can fly after glaucoma surgery.
although i didn’t fly after my glaucoma surgery no one told me i couldn’t.
and the recovery time is more like 2-3 days but you have to be careful about not picking up anything heavy and stuff for 7 days.
why don’t you call your doctor on monday morning and ask them if its ok to fly after surgery.
what type of glaucoma surgery are you having. like what procedure are they doing to correct it?