When Can You Drive After LASIK?

Bensica · #1 (**permalink**) 02-05-2008, 09:43 PM

There's a post on this forum about recovery from LASIK, but no one said anything about driving. That's what I want to know. How soon after surgery can you drive a car? I suppose it varies from one patient from another, but what do the surgeons tell them?

EYEBIKE1 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-06-2008, 07:33 PM

It is generally not adviseable to drive yourself home from the surgical center. After that, it's when you feel your vision is good enough. Usually the next day.

Bensica · #3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by EYEBIKE1

It is generally not advisable to drive yourself home from the surgical center. After that, it's when you feel your vision is good enough. Usually the next day.

Thank you EYEBIKE1. I wasn't thinking about driving home from the procedure. I'm still surprised about driving the next day, though.

To say that you can drive "when you feel your vision is good enough" is kind of subjective though, isn't it? Is there some kind of test that you know of that will be more objective? Something like "If you can see the blades of grass in the neighbor's yard across the street"?

That sounds like one of those "redneck" jokes. "If you can read a newspaper headline at fifty paces . . . you might be okay to drive."