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A member asked:

The instructions for using cosopt eye drops say to wait 20 minutes before inserting a contacts lens. why do you need to wait that long?

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Help absorption: 20 minutes is probably a conservative amount of time, but you want the drop to get into your eye so your eye pressure can go down, not absorb into your contact lens.

Answered 4/24/2015

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