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Was he or she fully recovered the next day?

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I had a squint operation myself 45 ish years ago. I was fully recovered the next day although in those days they made you stay in hospital for a few days just so the Ward Sister could bully you. I was ready to come home the next day, however. I am sure that the technology hasn't gone backwards so yes - fully recovered next day if all goes smoothly with the op. I am also sure that the nursing staff have improved.

Dd has one, she's 7 now, 8 in Feb. She had it a couple of years ago and was out a few hours after having it. It took longer to look healed and feel better etc but she was fine to come home. Not for school or anythign though and took 6 weeks for her to be able to be near sand etc. The school did a risk assesment.

Dd was in and out of hospital on the same day. She was allowed home as soon as she was able to eat/drink something without being sick. She was back at school within a week and back at swimming lessons after 2 weeks. Her eye was red for a couple of weeks and very uncomfortable for the first few days - she was prescribed paracetamol and ibuprofen and had eye drops that had to be put in twice a day.

I had my eyes done twice - and actually they'd like to do them again . It depends really on how the child responds to the anaesthetic and on how much the muscle is moved.

I was terribly, terribly sick both times (apparently is common with eye surgery), and the second time when they moved the muscle a long way it hurt quite a lot. Wasn't really recovered for a few days, and neither time did I want to go and do much for the first week. I was 13 the first time, 18 the second, so do remember it well !

Thank you

Her turn is bad so it will never be straight, but will be s=done as much as they can

dreading it now, it's tomorrow. I know its only aneye op but the last surgery she had was on her brain, I am getting nervous now

I'm sure everything will go well tomorrow, I know I felt awful before dd had hers though so it's understandable. She's had another op recently for a broken wrist, 2 places, wasn't nice for her at all and was an ambulence to the hospital job.

Dd also had a really bad turn in but with her glasses it makes a difference, her eyesight also requires glasses but since the op (a lot of the prescription was to correct the quint) they have been a lot lower and thinner which is good. Her squint is barely noticeable now and she's 8 in Feb, it does get worse when she's tired though.

Thinking of you for tomorrow.

We're hoping that dd won't need an operation on her squint. I can understand why you're apprehensive, but our hospital has always been very reassuring.

Best wishes for tomorrow.

Best of luck to your daughter. My son who is 5 had his squint op 2 weeks ago. The op itself was about 1.5 hours. We took him home the same day. He took eye drops for a week after (4 times a day) and I gave him calpol and ibuprofen for about a week too ( they advised me to give the max dose possible of these so that he didn't have a chance to feel the pain and it seemed to work). He hardly opened his eye at all after the op but when he did the next day he said everything was double!!! Luckily this went the day after that and it is meant to be normal. His eye looks a lot straighter now but he will need glasses anyway. At the follow up appointment they said that they eyes still didn't work together but that the eye was much improved. It is still a bit red but getting better day by day. Have signed him off PE for 3 weeks.

In answer to your question, I wouldn't say he was fully recovered the next day as due to the double vision he was staggering a bit! Also, he kept the eye shut a lot. He was a lot better after about 3 days. When the eye is healing it looks a bit scarey, very red and at one stage looked a bit yellow. It was also a bit sticky in the morning and I cleaned it with boiled water and some special wipes the hospital gave me.

Thank you. It went well. She has Special Needs also so hard to explain it all to her. It was very sore after the op and very red now.

We have to put ointment in for 2 weeks, 4 times a day which isnt easy! she is really good but eyes shut tight lol

I never thought about PE, nothing was mentioned about it?

thank you s much for your replies