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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CarbsRok" data-source="post: 624613" data-attributes="member: 14029">Hi Paulina,if it helps I have had both cataracts done this year. Very much a chicken so chose to have a sedative. This worked very well as not really aware of what's going on. but main advantage was I was on my way home within an hour. GA means you will have to stay at least 5 hours in recovery. You obviously have to have the drops in first which takes about an hour then a cannula is popped into your vein and you not of for 15 - 20 mins. If you have a sedative or a GA though you do have to follow the nil by mouth rule. Blood sugars were fine afterwards as well. Hope all goes well for you.PS, the anaesthetist thought my pump was fab as he hadn't seen one before was asked lots of questions about it plus the sensor, he even took out his smart phone to photograph it then text the lot to his mate who had been type one for 27 years. I wasn't asked to take my pump off for the 2nd op. 1st one I was as told it was protocol! So I just said no op then as wasn't going to go DKA after being pumped full off steroids and no insulin to help out. There was no argument I kept my pump on. Two different anaesthetist two different surgeons and everything went very well.</blockquote>

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