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Splitting Proscar tablets in advance


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Hi everyone,

 

I was wondering if there's any issue with splitting Proscar tablets ahead of time. Suppose I split and get ready an entire box of Proscar tablets for convenience, would it still be potent? How does everyone do it?

 

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I split mine one at a time (at the most two, if I'm feeling ambitious and am afraid I'll forget later in the week) - but one at a time is ideal so as to avoid the medication potentially losing its potency once it's been exposed to air.

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Hmmm, makes sense I guess. It would be so convenient to get more tablets ready, though. I'll pick up my very first box of Proscar tomorrow. Bought a small box cutter. Hope that will do the trick.

 

Does anyone else have some input on this?

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I have a pill splitter that I brought nearly 10 years ago and is still cutting my proscar. I do cut into quarters and take daily as splitting it into 5 pieces is too difficult. You will loose some in the cut but works out much more cost effective than buying Propecia.

 

This is similar to what I have.

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Just opened the box and they're actually round-shaped so I could split them into quarters. Isn't 1.25 mg too high though? Or would it be better to split them into eights and get 0.625 mg to start off?

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I don't believe exposure to air does them damage. I cut many pieces in advance and keep them in a pill box. I find using a knife to cut them is best and cut them into four pieces and discard any significantly smaller ones. Cutting the pills into smaller than four is too difficult without a lot of crumbling.

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I thought they would be round initially, but when I took out an actual tablet, turns out they are the odd shape. Split 3 pieces. Indeed, it is very difficult to split them into fifths. Too much crumbling. Hard enough to split them into four.

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I cut them into 4ths and I will cut up 3 to 4 at a time. So, I will have anywhere 12 and 16 days before I have to cut again. I have not seen any issues with it.

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My generic 5 mg finasteride is round also. I cut up a week's worth in advance. My personal feeling is that cutting up too many in advance could affect their potency but I don't have any data to support that.

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My dosage is 1 mg everyday and is available in 1 mg dosage so no need to open them up before to make pieces and expose to atmosphere. I assume they come in blister packaging for a purpose. Else they would have put numerous ones in an air tight small box.

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I get the 5 mg generic round Fin and into quarters. I figure by the time you are done you end up with about 1 gram pieces.

By far the best way for me to cut is just by hand using a small replacement razor blades used for scraping paint of windows from the Hardware or Home depot. That big knife is crazy;

Was a popular tool for chopping all kinds of drugs back in the 70's and 80's :)

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Sorry to bring up an old thread but i was wondering if anyone had any updated studies/information on the potential issue of splitting proscar into 4s.

Potential issues as in moisture and oxygen affecting the split pill and ultimately affecting its efficacy.

I find someone brought this up 10 years ago in the following thread: 

 

 

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