After the Surgery: A Caregiver's Guide to Recovery and Red Flags with Dagny Zhu, MD

Over the years, I’ve learned that some of the biggest vision problems don’t come from inside the eye at all—they come from the eyelids. I see patients every day who are preparing for LASIK or cataract surgery and feel completely fine, yet their eyelids are quietly inflamed and their tear film is unstable. When that happens, vision can fluctuate, measurements can be off, and recovery can be more uncomfortable than it needs to be. Once you understand how much the eyelids influence the surface of the eye, it changes the way you think about eye surgery altogether.