Posted by daizy on May 7, 2003, at 17:40:25
In reply to Pill Cutters, Anyone?, posted by cubbybear on May 7, 2003, at 12:31:20
I dont think that some pills are meant to be cut, ones with a score on are fine, but ones with coating, and some others can actually make you Ill if you cut them. I think its because some of them can be slow release ones, and not necessarily say so on the packet, and its also got something to do with the way they are digested or whetever, im not sure.
> 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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