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Reviewer: tke1028, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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Dulled the redness from the pink eye but made my eyes hurt worse. Made the top of my head hurt and eyes felt swollen afterwards. My eyes also burned and felt more irritated. Actually had to use systane to make my eyes stop burning from this medicine. I have never had a med do this to my eyes so I stopped taking this med after 2 days. Called dr and got a better med. Be careful with this one!Why are
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Reviewer: 45-54 Female (Patient)
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Day three and my eyes are worse. It feels like there is glass in them. I will need to go back in or call tomorrow.
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Reviewer: 65-74 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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After I started using this my eye got worse. Have been trying 3rd day now. I will try to make it until Monday(this is Saturday),if not I will have to go to emergency room tomorrow. With all these negative reports, why are they still prescribing it.
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Reviewer: xXxLauraxXx, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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didn't work on my pink eye - have to see the doctor again with no coverage - costing more for another visit and a new prescription- not worth it - waist of time :/
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Reviewer: 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I had pink eye in both eyes. It took 48 hours before I noticed any positivie results from taking these eye drops. As soon as it began somewhat working, I got intense burning and pain in both eyes. Each time I applied the eye drops to my eyes, the burning worsen. My day 4 my vision started to beoome blurry. Call my doc and he told me to stop taking it. This product seems to be a 'temporary'
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