I went back to the gym six weeks after my corneal graft just for light sets: the day I held my breath under the bar, I understood what my discharge papers never mentioned
Six weeks after corneal graft surgery, a patient returns to the gym for light bench presses and encounters a pressure spike behind their eye that no discharge papers ever mentioned. This is the story of the Valsalva maneuver, intraocular pressure, and the gap between clinical guidance and physical reality.