This surgery usually takes about 30 minutes and takes place in the doctor's office . Surgery for macular pucker will improve your vision, but does not bring it back to normal. I was be able to regain about half of the vision I was lost from a macular pucker. Mom have much more vision restored, brother less. Anyway, this kind of surgery can help you with vision distortion. My macular pucker surgery recovery time was about four months. The first time you will need to apply special moisturizing creams and use eye drops that you prescribe an ophthalmologist.