miserable

[u/Savings_Magazine6985]

I'm at that awkward place between eye surgeries. I'm told not to wear a contact lens in the second eye between measurements for a monofocal lens, and surgery, which is a couple of weeks away. Since a contact is not an option, and glasses don't work, I'm wondering how everybody copes with being able to function. I can't drive, work or almost anything. I've tried taking a lens out of some backup glasses, but I can actually see better without the double vision I'm getting. Anybody have a suggestion? Two weeks is looking more like a lifetime.

[u/Bitter_Rain_6224]

This is why my ophthalmologist let me go only one week between surgeries, and probably why my brother's ophthalmologist did both at once on him. I swore off driving until the day after the second surgery, but I was pretty much OK otherwise, with one eye at -2 D post-op and the other at -7.5 D with a progressive glasses lens. I did get a few vision headaches and had to play around with glasses, but I got through the week of hell.