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Extended release was hard with some, but I had one insurer that would only pay for 1 pill per day, so I had to use ER with them.
by aidenn0 2y ago
Extended release was hard with some, but I had one insurer that would only pay for 1 pill per day, so I had to use ER with them.
- kstrauser 2y agoI have heard ahem that you could get 30 pills that were each an entire day's dose, cut them in half, and take them as 60 separate doses. For example, you and the doc think you should take 10mg in the morning and 10mg at lunch, so get a prescription for 30 20mg pills and buy a pill chopper. Purely rumor, I'm sure.
- aidenn0 2y agoThat would work if the pharmacy reliably provided tablets rather than capsules.
- ajb 2y agoWhen I was tapering off a capsule med, I used to pull the two halves of the capsule apart, pour out a bit of the powder, and plug the halves back together. Not amazingly accurate I admit. But it shows that it's not impossible to disassemble and manipulate at least some kinds of capsule, tedious though it is to do.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoLast time I tried that, I had to vacuum the stuff from the floor. Turns out some CR capsules are filled with a lot of tiny little frictionless spherical pellets instead of powder.
- ajb 2y agoProbably "Extended Release". The ingredient is coated with a range of thicknesses, so that different ones become bioavailable after different lengths of time in the gut. That is actually what my "powder" was I had a way to avoid spilling them, but it's too long ago and I don't remember what it was.