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Anyone got any good tips for putting eye drops in am right handed and sometimes find it hard put drops in my left eye

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I have also attached 2 links regarding putting your drops in which you may find helpful. Alternatively there are many compliance aids available to buy.

youtube.com/watch?v=pBFogtg...

youtube.com/watch?v=utwEaeA...

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Stairs10 in reply toTrish_GlaucomaUK

These are brilliant. Thanks for putting the videos online. He did a workshop at the local eye clinic and taught us these techniques which were very well received by participants. I learned so much and improved the way I use my drops. Nobody had ever shown me or even explained that there was a correct way . For years therefore I had been using them incorrectly.

Would be good if patients were told about these links etc when we come to the eye clinic ! Or even as a footnote to the clinic letters.

Thanks once again.

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Decorator123 in reply toStairs10

Would love to have a lesson in how to put Single use drops just started on them two days ago panicking that I’m not putting them in right or getting them in

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