have you developed a droopy eyelid or eyelids and you're looking for
solutions there's a brand new eye drop called upneeq with one eye drop you can have an eyelid
lift now who is this drop for and how well does it work let's focus in
hey howdy everybody this is Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy with the show that keeps your eyes healthy
and your vision clear and i do a lot of educational and review videos like this
one so make sure you're subscribed for my future videos now let's talk about up nick now make sure
that you stay towards the end of the video because i'll have before and after footage of when i put
an eye drop in my left eye as well as my wife using an eye drop so you can kind of see the
differences and see how the drop actually works now who is this drop made for this drop is made
for people that have developed a droopy eyelid or eyelids also known as a ptosis or a blepharoptosis
a ptosis is defined as a lower hanging eyelid or eyelids lower than it should be or lower than
they used to be about 11 percent of the people over the age of 50 usually develop a ptosis or a
blepharoptosis now ptosis can not only bug people cosmetically because they don't want the look of a
droopy eyelid or eyelids but also can give them symptoms of blurry vision it can decrease the
amount of light getting into their eyes it can also tire their eyes out because they're having
to spend a lot of muscle power trying to lift their eyelids up and get the eyelids out of the
way or they'll tilt their head back so they just get the eyelids out of the way they don't have
to deal with it anymore up nick was designed for this person in mind for this person that's having
symptoms and maybe they're looking into possibly a blepharoplasty or an eyelid surgery maybe they're
not eligible for their insurance yet they're just looking for a solution to get that eyelid up this
drop may be the answer now who is this drop not for now important note here is you need to make
sure that you have an eye exam with a proper diagnosis for the cause of your droopy eyelids
there are a few neurological conditions that can cause your eyelids to droop such as horner
syndrome myasthenia gravis or a cranial nerve three palsy you need to make sure that you rule
out these causes because up nick won't work for this type of droopy eyelid and they're actually
a little bit more serious condition so make sure that you get a proper diagnosis also if you're
born with a ptosis where one eyelid is lower than the other one up nick won't work for a congenital
ptosis where you're born with a droopy eyelid also if you have a condition called dermatochalasis
where you have baggy eyelid skin upneeq lifts the eyelid using the eyelid muscle but it won't lift
your baggy eyelid skin that baggy skin will still be there people that have high blood pressure or
hypertension need to be careful with this drop also this drop is contraindicated in people that
have sjogren's syndrome or cerebral and coronary artery insufficiency so let's go over a little bit
about the drug specifics of upneek now the actual drug is called oxymetazoline which is also found
in afrin a nasal spray for congestion and it's an alpha adrenergic agonist which means it mimics the
mechanism of epinephrine or adrenaline now upneeq targets the muller muscle of the eyelid there's
another muscle called the levator muscle which is a voluntary muscle meaning that you can purposely
open up your eyelids with that muscle the muller muscle is involuntary meaning it automatically
keeps your eyelids up and that's what up knee targets it will contract that muller muscle
keeping your eyelids up and lifted so what should you expect when you use the upneec eye drop now
this drop is designed to use once a day usually people put a drop in the morning and it should
last between 8 and 12 hours some people may get more than 12 hours some people less than 8 hours
totally depends on the person here now when you put the eye drop in you should start
seeing effects at the 15 minute mark and at the 2 hour mark is when you have the peak or maximum
efficacy of the eye drop now the fda found it to be clinically significant at raising your eyelid
two to three millimeters now this does depend on the person a little bit at the end the video
you kind of see the difference between me and my wife when we use the eye drop my wife you could
barely notice a difference me you can definitely notice a difference if you haven't noticed already
i put an eye drop in my left eye before we started this video and it almost makes it look like my
right side is having a stroke but this is how i normally look is on my right side so the eye drop
definitely works on me uh as you can see now let's go over a little bit about the side effects that
somebody might experience if they use this eye drop now usually what they say with this
eye drop is that it will make your eyes bright and white meaning that it will constrict your
blood vessels making your eyes more white which is also nice cosmetically looks great now what
you potentially could have as a side effect when the drop wears off you can have rebound redness or
sometimes a lot of the redness will come back even maybe more so than you did before so it might make
your eyes more red after the drop wears off now some other side effects that you might experience
would be dryness headaches blurry vision pain now a small percentage of people in the studies
experience these symptoms but still might happen for me i actually experience dryness when i use
the eye drop my wife actually experienced a little bit of a headache behind her eye a little bit
so it is possible now the dryness symptom is the one i'm more curious about because it does lift
your eyelid up causing more of your eyeball to be exposed to the air which could lead to exposure
dryness also because it tightens the eyelid a little bit your blink does feel different
when i blink this left eye feels different and so people might experience an incomplete blink which
also could lead to dry eyes and like i said before people with high blood pressure might
not want to take this because it does constrict the blood vessels it's a vasoconstrictor which
might increase blood pressure now how do you get the eye drop this one's a little bit more
unique it is a prescription eye drop from your eye doctor but only one pharmacy in the united states
fills that prescription it's the rvl pharmacy in new jersey they're the ones that will send
out the drops to you when you have a prescription now you don't even deal with insurance this is all
cash pay for the eye drop and i'll put the updated prices down below in the prescription so make sure
that you check that out and i'll try and keep it updated if the prices do change okay for the end
of the video i'm going to show you my results when i use the eye drop i'll show you a video footage
before i put the eye drop in 15 minute mark and maybe the two hour mark as well as my wife's
results so you can kind of see the differences in different people using the eye drop now remember
i'm not diagnosed i don't really have a big ptosis or an eyelid droop neither does my wife
so people that will have or are diagnosed with a blepharoptosis will definitely have better results
or should have better results more noticeable results than than than i would or my wife would
hey if you have any questions about up nick make sure that you leave it down
in the comments below i do purposely try and answer every comment every question that i have
so let me know thanks for checking out the video everybody i'm Dr. Neal Guymon,
Dr. EyeGuy focusing on you and your eyes make sure that you check out my other
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