This is my predicament....I have to learn to sleep on my back during recovery. Problem is I have always been a side/belly sleeper. Any suggestions or techniques welcome!

I had same issue w LASIK 15 years ago.
All resolved w a couple of doses of Diazepam.
Billy

Those bed wedge pillows. Get two. Prop yourself up enough and it is a lot more comfortable to sleep on your back and it also makes it really difficult to roll over on your side. I’m a side sleeper and had a surgery where I was cut from my sternum to my pubis right down the middle and those pillows were the only way I could sleep or get myself up off the bed.

A comfortable recliner worked for me when I couldn't sleep on my side a few years back.

What kind of eye surgery?

If the danger is disturbing the eye, wear an eye shield.

My doctor gave me a crappy one when I had LASIK and I wrinkled the cornea, I was lucky with an easy fix with no further problems.

When I had cataract surgery they gave me a hard eye shield to tape to my face.

No way I was going to move anything moving around with that taped over my eye.

Surgery is cataracts and corneal implants, I need to sleep on my back for the implants, so they float to the surface. I see the the Doc in January so maybe he'll have some advice. Surgery won't be till second half of March. Damn I only have 2, got to have hope!!