Posted by John2222 on December 31, 2003, at 20:46:16
In reply to Re: Effexor withdrawal - my approach » John2222, posted by baddog55 on December 31, 2003, at 19:11:37
> I took a 75 mg cap today, pulled it apart, divided the grains into 3 piles, and cannot for the life of me figure out how to get them back into the capsule without them going everywhere! There has got to be a trick to this, but not being a jr. pharmacist, I must be missing someting. Help?
>This may sound difficult but it really isn't:
One choice is after opening the top of the capsule, to look at the bottom half, and then just dump approx in the trash.
The other choice which I took was to buy the empty gel caps from the health food store. Open up 2 gel caps, put the bottom half of the 2 gel caps in your left hand between your thumb/first finger.
Then carefully take an opened Effexor capsule in the right hand and pour half in each gel-cap. It's easy this way to judge the half in each one. And if it's not exact enough, you can pour a little from one into the other to balance it out. Finally put the two tops back on.
I agree though that once you pour the beads onto some other surface, it's impossible to get them back in!
Good luck.
(totally off Effexor now one month)
John
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