Posted by colin wallace on May 11, 2003, at 4:33:02
In reply to Pill Cutters, Anyone?, posted by cubbybear on May 7, 2003, at 12:31:20
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Hi Cubby,
You may already know this, but many film coated tablets are designed to pass through the stomach undigested(to be absorbed in the small-intestine)and are rendered useless by stomach acids if split.Here's a few pages of a usefull link...
http://www.hi.com.au/seniorsci/pdf/SenSci21_5.pdf
PS. great to see you're well on the road to recovery...say hi to Nana from me..(nostalgia!!)
Sometimes it seems that the scoring the med manufacturers use on the pills don't give you a real neat split into halves. Since I probably will want to cut .5 mg Klonopin into quarters or even eighths, I'll probably buy a pill cutter. Has anyone used one of these and found it helpful (for really small dose reductions)? And, what about using the cutter on hard pills like Parnate, which are not meant to be cut? It's made only in 10 mg. size,so if you'd like to try something like 35 mg. you'd have to cut this little red pebble in half. Anyone with precision pill cutting experience, please speaketh.
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