# Looking for Corneal Transplant Experiences.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-corneal-transplant-experiences/602453>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 10, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-corneal-transplant-experiences/602453 "2011-11-10T00:52:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-corneal-transplant-experiences/602453/1 "2011-11-10T00:52:25Z")

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I have keratoconus and had a corneal transplant in my left eye two weeks ago. I’m looking for any people who have also had one to ask about what to expect in this early recovery time. I know the timing is different for everyone but I’m guessing the sequence of improvement milestones is similar. Things were going good at the end of last week when I stopped taking pain medication of any sort but yesterday morning I went to work for a few hours and it totally wiped me out for the whole day. Even today I haven’t really been able to spend very much time with my eyes open. All I did at work is sit in a meeting and I think the brightness of the drive was a factor too.

AFAIK I’m not having any problems that need a call to the doctor.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-corneal-transplant-experiences/602453/2 "2011-11-10T02:14:47Z")

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When you say “it totally wiped me out for the whole day” what do you mean, you were feeling pain again?

I also have keratoconus, but I haven’t had a cornea transplant (yet).

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**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-corneal-transplant-experiences/602453/3 "2011-11-10T02:18:43Z")

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My mother has cornea dystrophy, which has been treated by something short of a whole cornea transplant.

But, I can vouch based on her experience, that becoming tired more quickly than seems entirely reasonable is par for the course in healing from eye surgery.

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**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-corneal-transplant-experiences/602453/4 "2011-11-10T02:36:14Z")

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It wiped me out as in tired. Not really any more pain just a little more irritation, like scratchy, dry eye feeling. I was away from home around 4 hours including one hour of driving. I took an hour nap then the rest of the day I could hardly stay awake. Today my eye is a little more scratchy than before yesterday and I’m still tired.

**Eureka** , that’s good to hear. It just seems like having one eye healing shouldn’t make my whole self so tired.