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Reviewer: Patrick, 75 or over Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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Unlike several other bottles that my eye surgeon prescribed this one is nearly impossible to use properly. The design is absurd and requires very strong fingers which most of the people who need it simply do not have. After trying to get drops out over two weeks I managed to empty the bottle of all its contents. Fortunately my pharmacist was good enough to sell me another one. Is the manufacturer
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Reviewer: 65-74 Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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Nevanac is great medication but bottle is horrible and very difficult to get 1 DROP OUT as you have to squeeze so hard you may get one or several drops. it is a struggle. many people who use it are seniors and find the bottle to hard to manage. please helps with the bottle problem. Many of my friends have this difficulty.
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Reviewer: mayday, 75 or over Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I don't like using this cream in my eye as it is very thick and takes a while to come out of the bottle and doesn't always make it easy to get it into the eye. I have arthritis in my fingers and you have to press the bottle very hard to get a drop out. But I must take it as am under ophthalmologist's orders after a cataract operation. I have been taking it every day, three drops per da
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Reviewer: 55-64 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I had no side effects from it after cataract surgery. For a week after the surgery, whenever I felt a dull ache in my eye, the Nevanac seemed to soothe the ache, like an aspirin for my eye. My vision in the surgical eye is now 20/20.
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Reviewer: solaas, 65-74 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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Nevanac was prescribed for me following bilateral laser surgery for glaucoma. Withing one day after applying the drops I lost visual acuity excepting for response to light and dark and my eyes felt like they had been stuck with a hot polker. A week after cessation of the drops my vision was radically altered and I have cataracts. the doctor thinks I had a rare allergic reaction. Two days aft
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