Use Lumigan 0.01 % one drop once a day in both eyes. 5.0 ml. bottle nearly empty in 28 days but pharmacy says that my drug insurance plan says that it is too soon to refill the presription. How many drops do you get out of a 5.0 ml. bottle of Lunigan?
Number of doses in 5.0 ml. of Lumigan 0.01%?
Question posted by rich08820 on 20 Feb 2012
Last updated on 3 October 2017
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jameswagner
31 May 2012
I get Latisse 3ml. (Lumigan for $63 with my pharmacy medicines mexico.
DemoninDC
21 Feb 2012
A medical drop is 1/12 mL. Therefore there are 12 drops in 1mL. Since you were given a 5mL bottle that would be 60 drops in the bottle divided by 2, total drops in eyes per day, means a total supply of 30 days. If you are really at day 28 you should be able to get a refill. However if they are using a metric drop which is 1/20 mL then you are nowhere near ready for your refill as the bottle should last 50 days. You need to ask your pharmacist what unit of measure they are using for your eye drops. They you should call your insurance company and find out what the problem really is.
gciriani
3 Nov 2013
That's not my experience. The bottle, according to the manufacturer, contains 2.5 mL, which using your 1/12 mL/drop, would mean 30 drops. The last Lumigan I finished this morning lasted almost exactly 1.5 months (both eyes), which is 90 drops. By the way I noticed a sudden decrease in duration. I've been using Lumigan every day since 2010. It used to last for 90 days, but that duration, with this last bottle, it went down in half to 45 days.
MICP-EMT-P
4 Oct 2017
A drop or gtt can be between 1/60ml to 1/10ml. Every IV tubing set I have used had drip chambers calibrated @ 10, 15 or 60 gtt/ml.
drop (gtt)
Etymology: AS, dropa
a small spherical mass of liquid. A drop may vary in size with differences in temperature, viscosity, and other factors. For therapeutic purpose, a drop is regarded as having a volume of 0.06 to 0.1 mL, or 1 to 1.5 minims. 1.5 drops = 1 mL.
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