For about the last 18 months I been suffering watering eyes. Friends told me will be hay fever and I should get eye drops, so I bought some hay fever eye drops for about 3 quid.
They did precisely nowt. Friends next told me I needed Antihistamine as well as the drops :rolleyes: so I got some antihistamine tablets but the drops and tablets did precisely nothing as well.:(
So I went to Boots Opticians where I get my specs from, they told me it was Dry Eye syndrome. Yeah! .. I know! ...my eyes are watering not dry, that's exactly what I told them, if they were dry I wouldn't have a problem, I told them.
They said they are watering because they are short on the tear film that protects them so because of that they are watering. You need some dry eye drops so I bought Boots dry eye drops for around a fiver, can't remember exactly how much now. They might have helped a bit but not that much it made a lot of difference I was still continually crying.
So went back to Boots Opticians and they said I probably needed some more effective drops which were a bit pricey by comparison to the others at 13 smackers. Reluctantly I forked out 13 green ones and bought the super eye drops.
They didn't really do any better than the 5 quid drops, after using them up I returned to Boots own at 5 quid and persevered.
Now here is the rip off. One day my wife said I saw a new dry eye treatment advertised on TV last night. It's a spray you spray on closed eyelids and it's supposed to be really effective as it artificially replaces tear film.
Couldn't wait! Went to Boots Chemist, and there they were Optrex at £15-99 and Boots own at £12. I read both instruction and ingredients and both seemed to be identical so I bought the boots spray and it does seem to really help, doesn't stop it completely but it seems to really reduce the watering to an acceptable level. Now I bet you are thinking that's the rip off but it's not.
Shaking the spray a few days ago I could tell it was nearly empty so time to buy another £12 spray. As it happens that day we went to our local Asda and I noticed they had a dry eye spray on sale for a fiver. The box looked to be the same as the Boots box but with Asda on it instead of Boots. I thought maybe it's a lookalike con but I'll try one for a fiver. When we got home I realised the boxes were not identical but the design was very similar. I looked at the ingredients and they were identical, I took out the spray and compared the two, they looked identical.
For those who don't know plastic container usually have an identification mark on the bottom which identifies which injection molding tool produced them, they had the same markings so the Boots spray bottle and the Asda spray bottle had been produced on the same production line.
OK so maybe they both buy their containers from the same independent supplier. So I looked on the box to see if it said who produces the spray for Boots and for Asda and blow me if both the Boots eye Spray and the Asda eye spray aren't made by the same Italian pharmaceutical firm in Italy.
What a rip off! from £15-99 to £12 to £5 for the same product.:mad:
And Yes! ... I have tried the Asda one and it works just as good.
They did precisely nowt. Friends next told me I needed Antihistamine as well as the drops :rolleyes: so I got some antihistamine tablets but the drops and tablets did precisely nothing as well.:(
So I went to Boots Opticians where I get my specs from, they told me it was Dry Eye syndrome. Yeah! .. I know! ...my eyes are watering not dry, that's exactly what I told them, if they were dry I wouldn't have a problem, I told them.
They said they are watering because they are short on the tear film that protects them so because of that they are watering. You need some dry eye drops so I bought Boots dry eye drops for around a fiver, can't remember exactly how much now. They might have helped a bit but not that much it made a lot of difference I was still continually crying.
So went back to Boots Opticians and they said I probably needed some more effective drops which were a bit pricey by comparison to the others at 13 smackers. Reluctantly I forked out 13 green ones and bought the super eye drops.
They didn't really do any better than the 5 quid drops, after using them up I returned to Boots own at 5 quid and persevered.
Now here is the rip off. One day my wife said I saw a new dry eye treatment advertised on TV last night. It's a spray you spray on closed eyelids and it's supposed to be really effective as it artificially replaces tear film.
Couldn't wait! Went to Boots Chemist, and there they were Optrex at £15-99 and Boots own at £12. I read both instruction and ingredients and both seemed to be identical so I bought the boots spray and it does seem to really help, doesn't stop it completely but it seems to really reduce the watering to an acceptable level. Now I bet you are thinking that's the rip off but it's not.
Shaking the spray a few days ago I could tell it was nearly empty so time to buy another £12 spray. As it happens that day we went to our local Asda and I noticed they had a dry eye spray on sale for a fiver. The box looked to be the same as the Boots box but with Asda on it instead of Boots. I thought maybe it's a lookalike con but I'll try one for a fiver. When we got home I realised the boxes were not identical but the design was very similar. I looked at the ingredients and they were identical, I took out the spray and compared the two, they looked identical.
For those who don't know plastic container usually have an identification mark on the bottom which identifies which injection molding tool produced them, they had the same markings so the Boots spray bottle and the Asda spray bottle had been produced on the same production line.
OK so maybe they both buy their containers from the same independent supplier. So I looked on the box to see if it said who produces the spray for Boots and for Asda and blow me if both the Boots eye Spray and the Asda eye spray aren't made by the same Italian pharmaceutical firm in Italy.
What a rip off! from £15-99 to £12 to £5 for the same product.:mad:
And Yes! ... I have tried the Asda one and it works just as good.
What a rip off!
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