I’ve tried and tried… My eyes don’t trust my hands. And it’s worse if somebody tries to do it for me. Let me spend all day at the dentist or ob-gyn, but don’t come near me with those eye-drops! I’m an eye-drop wimp. 
My ophthalmologist taught me this…
Instead of holding the eye dropper a few inches above your eye and dropping the drops directly onto your eye, gently pull your bottom lid down, then, holding the eye dropper fairly close, put the drops in to the little “well” that is formed. If he hadn’t given me that trick, I’d probably STILL have conjunctivitis.
P.S. Almost forgot: use a mirror when doing this so you don’t poke yourself.
You’re probably trying to hold your head back and let the drops fall into your eyes, right? Big mistake. That will never work.
It’s much easier if you carefully place the drops on a smooth surface (for example, a coffee table) and then try to hit them with your eye. Don’t worry if you miss the drops the first few times – your accuracy will improve over time.
That’s ok hon, I can’t do it either. Somehow, I’ve been wearing contacts for over three years now and have never had to put that terrible terrible stuff into my eyes yet.
The doctors can do it to me tho’.
You have my sympathies hillbilly queen. After many years I have mastered the drop to eye technique but have as yet to conquer mascara. I end up with the mascara goop all over the place yet somehow not on my eyelashes.
You are not an eye-drop wimp it is merely a slight technical hitch in the hand-eye communication system.
I can’t stand eye drops. I can’t put them in my eyes. I can’t flush my eyes with water either. If I get soap in them I just press down REALLY hard until the paid subsides. Contacts? Not in my wildest dreams.
You have my sympathies.
I put the nozzle of the dropper right up against the bridge of my nose at the inside corner of the eye and squeeze out the required number of drops. Blinking a few times draws them into the eye. I don’t even need to use a mirror.
Until the PAIN subsides, not the paid.
Gah!
Oh yeah, tilt your head back. That’s important.
What Q.E.D. said. Even though you may end up with several ounces of fluid on your face, a sufficient amount will reach your eyeball.
I hate the eyedrops too. Last time I needed some, it took three people to get them in my eye.
I use one of those little eyewash cups like come in first aid kits. You know the ones, an eye-shaped thing that looks like an elongated plastic egg cup. Fluid goes it, eye goes over the top, tillt head back, swish fluid all over eyeball … ahhhhh, soothing.
This, of course, only works for the kinds of fluids that you can put into the eye in larger quantities - like eye wash solution, saline, etc.
As far as having to get three drops of this particular MEDICINE in my eye? WHAT?? ARE YOU KIDDING???
- yeah, I’m an eye-drop wimp too…
My dad had glaucoma, and it used to drive me CRAZY to watch him lie back on the bed, open his eyes, hold the dropper over them, and hit the target on the first try EVERY time.
Glaucoma is often hereditary, but I don’t worry about getting it because of possible eye damage – no, it’s the thought of having to put in those godawful EYEDROPS that gives me the willies!!
Tip your head to the side so that the eye to be dropped is the upper eye. Look towards your nose, put the eyedropper nozzle next to the non-nose corner of your eye (or, if you’re having trouble and don’t mind losing sterility, allow it to sit on your lids in that corner), and squeeze. Painless, and allows for good aim.
Eww I can’t do eye-drops either, and that air puffy thing they do if ya go to an eye doctor? Forget it!!
Last time I went to get my eyes checked out, they puffed air into my first eye just fine, but the second took over an hour. Even with trying to have nurse-type folks HOLD my eye open, it wasn’t working. We finally got lucky, but sheesh.
I KNOW it won’t hurt, but I just can’t handle things being in my eyes, especially the second eye.
I haven’t figured a way to get past this either… If anything, it’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older. Wish I wasn’t such a weenie; it’d be nice to wear contacts.