Posted by barbaracat on March 20, 2005, at 0:17:51
In reply to Re: To BarbaraCat, posted by Rhapsody on March 19, 2005, at 18:39:14
What I do is empty the entire capsule into a small container, wet my fingertip and pick up an approximate amount and either flick some off or swallow what's there and add more. I just lick the pellets off my fingertip and swallow some water, either before or with breakfast. Each little grain is enteric coated and doesn't dissolve until reaching the stomach so it doesn't matter if some of the flicked off ones get a little wet because they don't melt together. I use up the pellets until they're gone and a capsule lasts a ridiculously long time.
I'm using 30mg capsules and don't know how different dose capsules compare, i.e., if 60mg capsules have double the amount or are bigger pellets, are filled by weight or volume. I'll have to get out my magnifying glasses, a tweezer, and compare them one day. I started with 3 and as I increase the difference between one pellet isn't as noticeable, but I still take pains to be exact - a challenge since they're so tiny.
> Do you take the 10 pellets of Cymbalta in your mouth with water or do you put them in a capsule?
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