Can you get CDL after cataract surgery ?

I understand. However you do have some restrictions because of the real danger of the retina detaching if you put pressure on that eye. I doubt a DOT ME will give you a medical card if they know you just came out of the OR a few days before. You do need some time after. But yes you are right.

 

I will ask mt doc...

 

Here is a great link. I had mine done at the Hampton VA hospital and they really got onto me about these things.

 

Retinal detachment is a true no *&^% heart attack medical emergency. Once you start seeing silver lightning bolts and sparks in your vision, you have less than 4 hours to find your eye surgeon or similar in a ER capable of making repairs to it. Once the 4 hours have passed, you have lost vision forever.

I had to give up shotgunning for that reason. I love it too much.

 

So how much time off after cataract surgery for otr?

 

If you can avoid bending over to a point your head is not below the waist, I would say a week. However for Pete's sake follow your eye docs instructions. You still have eye drops to use.

 

Cataract surgery is for all the marbles. I had one so far and expect the other to be done when it's time to do it. My ex has both eyes filling with Cataracts now has been for a year, we are just waiting for them to grow big enough to be chopped out and a new lens dropped in. That should happen sometime this summer. Im already seeing signs that she is essentially legally blind in some situations. It's almost time. (That includes no driving at night etc)

I myself have begun to be with her constantly. There will be a time I will be with her 24/7 for every little thing in life until surgery is completed and the necessary healing is done. I have the time for her. No worries about that. She will be taken care of. She has witnessed the depression that hit me when I had mine before the surgery fixed me and saved my life. Suicide was a real possibility that year.

My surgery had me down 4 days. They had the cover shield off next day to see if the #### thing worked or not and how close to 20/20 they got. I was driving the next day against orders. Changing a tire against orders. Bending over against orders. Looking straight up against orders (Argon gas bubble was installed into the eyeball to collect the trash that we all have inside our eyeballs) In short abusing that poor eye. Even had a procedure in which the body went ahead and scarred over the new lenses, the doctor aimed a no #### laser and BURNED IT OFF. THAT was a experience I do not care to repeat. It's too close to getting hit with a green weapons laser pointer in that class. It can destroy your retina among other things.

One thing. I gave up shotgunning. I use slugs at 30 yards and am very very good at it with the old 870 mag. And breneke rounds. Each slug goes through the hole previously left by the prior. That's ok, I continue to bowl (Better) and took up handgunning which is really good once I learned how to process the sights.

There is ONE big important thought that makes all this so worth it. As a deaf man who relies on eyes to communicate and see to do things that are necessary in life being blind to cataract that year in 2009 led potentially to a careful selection by thinking about how I would prefer to reach the end of my life. It literally was not worth living to me 24/7 dependant on another person for everything. If you cannot do it yourself, don't bother living at all, it's a form of parasite to involve others in your trouble. They have their own lives too.

My grandmother had full on cataract back in the early 80's in those days surgery to fix that is truly barbaric and deemed too damaging to us children to attempt so she spent the last 7 years in bed on oxygen in a totally dark room on medicine that's not living. Just existing waiting for the next hand delivered mystery meal served by someone who probably would have his or her own troubles in life at work there.

With that said, I don't think you qualify for trucking if you had both cataracts removed and fixed lenses with no depth perception installed. Generally people who had cataracts are too old and frail to be DOT legal medically to continue trucking. I don't know why we are dealing with that kind of medical problem relatively early in life in our 40's was when I had mine. And expect to do it again before 60.

I have a feeling it might have to do with radiation from the life we lead with the smart phones and all that crap which is reinforced by what they plan to put into low earth orbit soon if not already in support of the new 5G which is really destructive to our bodies, slowly.

Fortunately it's a miracle to pop in new lenses like you install a contact lense. Poof done and fixed. What cataracts? They are gone.

I'll stop writing. There is nothing good to follow up on something that is not expected until you are like 80 or something decades ago when there was no technology like we endure today.

 

Oh that reminds me. When you show up for that surgery you will be told to close your mouth and get hit with 12 or so the reason being is the drops in at least one case is capable of comatizing you beyond reason. (They did not say which one) within a specific time those eyes treated with the cough drops

 

My Surgery was a year ago I still have 20/20 vision. So far no problem. It was not a gamble since I was legally blind before the surgery.