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What will my vision be like after a vitrectomy?

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Vaughan Tanner, a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeons at Sapphire Eye Care, describes how your vision will vary depending on where you are in your recovery process. He explains that your vision will ultimately depend on your condition.

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Vaughan Tanner, a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeons at Sapphire Eye Care, describes how your vision will vary depending on where you are in your recovery process. He explains that your vision will ultimately depend on your condition.

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  Following your vitrectomy, the visual recovery very much depends on the reason as to why the vitrectomy was done. If you are suffering from floaters and all that was required was removal of the jelly, then this is often followed by around a week of blurred vision as the air bubble inserted in the eye is absorbed. Vision should be pretty normal at the end of a week, maybe with a little bit of redness and irritation. More complicated procedures require longer-acting gases and more work on your retina. If you had a macular hole, for example, you may not have good visual recovery for at least a month as the gas bubble is absorbed and possibly longer as the retina recovers. With epiretinal membrane surgery, similarly, we see most recovery in the first month or so, but recovery can continue as your eye recovers for up to six months or possibly more.