Has anyone developed bags under eyes after cataract surgeries?

I hate to say this but I’ve had bags most of my life.
Give your body to heal. Hopefully it will get better in time. Give it one year.

I had cataract surgery in August 2022 and October 2022. Great to be able to drive at night and to be not wearing glasses. Still have bags under my eyes. Sigh!

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Yes, I have bags under my eyes after cataract surgery. I still have one more appointment with my optometrist and I am hopeful the blur on my right eye will go away. And, I have a bruise under that eye most likely caused by the clear plastic lens that I wore at night. I still have access to this doctor for ninety days at no charge. The $300 he received after each surgery pays for this. These are recent surgeries so @minnesota10 has good advice about giving my body time to heal. The first surgery was awful because I was not given enough anesthesia and I felt pain. I had the nurse's hand in a death grip. I heard the doctor who was operating say "We need to give her more Versed next time." I had been telling the anesthesiologist all along that I was difficult to sedate and the little amount of Versed did nothing for me. The next time, I had a different anesthesiologist and he put a port in my hand and gave me Versed and two other drugs and I felt no pain. I was so grateful to the second doctor who listened to me and most likely there was the notes from my first surgery. I wrote a "thank you" note to him. My husband had these surgeries two years ago and has a massive floater in one eye and he has a film on the back of both eyes. We are told this is scar tissue that formed and now he will have a laser treatment on both eyes. It is called Yag; however, nothing will help the floater. I only have a few of these, but his is terrible. It is always something. With all good wishes, @joybringer1.

I have bags under eyes overnight. Very strange. I slept and woke up with bags under eyes. Not sure why. FDA has cleared AGNES RF. Research it. It can be done on face and under eyes. I can't get it done as I have mild psoriasis.

Yes I have. I had both eyes done March 19,2019rt eye and then left eye on the 26th. A few days later I noticed bags under both eyes also I had to return to the surgeon because I went to my optometrist when I noticed a fog going across my eyes as I move them from right to left. My optometrist advised me to go back to the surgeon. to get laser in each eye to see if that would take care of the problem. I went back for the right eye To be laserd.Within a week nothing changed.I have not been back.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I also have a film across both eyes after the surgery 2019, I still do. My Optometrist can see the cloudiness so she advised me to see the surgeon to laser both eyes. 2 weeks aftersurgery I had the right eye lasered,no results! I haven't been back
since. I still have cloudiness in both eyes..any suggestions?

Oh golly, kaylin7, I do not know what you can do. Your experience makes me worry about my husband's eyes. He was told the laser would break up the film (scar tissue). He has two appointments in September. He needs to have good eyesight because he drives me everywhere and runs all the errands. Have you asked why the laser did not work for you? I do not understand why your laser treatment did not work and I think I would go back to that doctor and demand an answer. Our eyes are so precious to us. With all good wishes, @joybringer1.

I figured the bags under my eyes were there because for the first time (since I was 10, 63 years ago) I can see my face without glasses. I asked the assistant at the ophthalmologist office about people noticing bags under their eyes. She agreed with my assessment. (Or, maybe, she was just humoring me.) I’m 73. Seeing better than I have most of my life. What’s a couple of bags. I also figure if you smile, they’re not as noticeable.