An eye drop schedule you can follow for six weeks

Why these schedules are hard

A typical regimen is an antibiotic-steroid drop six times daily, a second anti-inflammatory drop four times daily, an ointment at night for the first five days, and tablets for four days. Each has a different frequency and a different end date, and every drop applies to one eye only. Held in memory across six weeks, mistakes are close to inevitable.

Spacing the drops

Choose six times a day and the drops are placed three hours apart — 8 AM, 11 AM, 2 PM, 5 PM, 8 PM, 11 PM — which is the pattern most surgeons ask for. You can move any time to fit the household. Where two different drops share an hour they appear stacked in the same box, a reminder to leave a few minutes between them rather than washing one out with the next.

Marking the eye

Put left eye or right eye in the site field and it prints inside every dose box. This matters more than it sounds: many patients have the second eye operated weeks later and end up running two different schedules at once. Make a separate chart for each eye and keep both on the wall.

Tapering weeks

When the drops reduce from six times daily to four after the first week, add the reduced schedule as its own entry starting the day the change takes effect. The chart shows both phases on one sheet, with the changeover visible as the grid thins out.

How to make one

1. Add each drop with the eye in the site field
2. Set six times a day for the first week
3. Print on A3 and keep it beside the drops

Questions

A note on safety. PillsChart reproduces the schedule you type. It does not check doses or interactions. Always follow the instructions from your doctor or pharmacist, and check the printed chart against the prescription before anyone relies on it.

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