Practical ways to keep up
with your eye drops
The prescription matters, but keeping to the right times and intervals is often the harder part. The EyeDay blog works through the questions that come up most often in the clinic — reminders, dosing records and tracking eye pressure.
How to keep your eye drop schedule straight after cataract surgery
Cataract surgery does not end when you leave the operating room. Using the prescribed drops correctly for the weeks that follow is a real part of recovery.
Do artificial tears need reminders too?
Artificial tears feel like the casual option, but if dry eye keeps coming back, simply recording when and how often you use them tells you a lot about your own patterns.
Why multiple eye drops need a five-minute gap
When you are prescribed two or three drops, it is tempting to put them all in at once and be done. But different drops usually come with instructions to space them out.
What to look for in an eye drop reminder app
A plain alarm app can get you to the right time. But once you have several drops, or you are managing them for months, it is worth checking whether an app was actually built for eye drops.
Why should glaucoma drops go in at the same time every day?
Glaucoma needs steady management even when you barely feel anything. With drops in particular, the habit that matters is using them at the prescribed times rather than whenever they come to mind.
Eye drop reminder apps and medication apps compared
Search for an eye drop reminder and you get eye-drop-specific apps, general medication reminders and your phone's built-in health app all at once. They are good at different things, so what to pick depends on whether your prescription is simple or complicated.
Why eye drop reminders matter after LASIK and LASEK
After vision correction surgery, using the prescribed drops consistently until your eyes settle is the part that counts. The first few days in particular can feel like a complicated schedule.
How to build a schedule when you have two or three drops
With one drop, a single alarm can be enough. Once there are two or more, times, order, left and right eye and duration all mix together and mistakes creep in.
What to check when the family helps with a parent's eye drops
When a parent is on long-term glaucoma drops, or came home from cataract surgery with several bottles, having the family check in is often enough on its own to cut down on mistakes.
What to watch when using steroid eye drops after cataract surgery
Steroid drops are often prescribed after cataract surgery. What matters is less the name of the drug than following the count and duration your clinic gave you.
How not to forget timolol and latanoprost drops
Glaucoma drops come with a generic name, a brand name and a bottle shape that all differ, which makes them feel complicated from the patient's side. What matters is using the drug you were prescribed, the way you were told, consistently.