Posted by Vincent_QC on January 3, 2009, at 8:22:17
In reply to Re: Parnate/40mg experience JadeKelly/Scoot..., posted by shasling on January 3, 2009, at 0:41:42
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> Actualy i believe you might be mistaken,of course this is my opinion.
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> Capsules,powdered tablets usualy can be opened emptied to a degree or split in powdered versions.
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> Whole tablest however,coated ones usualy have a delivery system about them as to how long they dissolver and well they do.
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> I always found breaking parnate tablets apart seemed to ruin the entire pill,but on the brighter side i dont believe there is any danger and hey if it works is what counts,but like you i love tabs like gabaentin who im a big fan of using partial amouints from the powdered pill by breaking,however encetric or headache pills or the like i usualy just leave be.cheers!Hi ;-)
Thanks for your advise...I don't know a lot of things about film coated pills...But I know more things about XR or SR capsules...and they don't work on me for sure...small intestine so I don't absorb all the drugs in my blood stream.For what I see, Parnate is not film coated. IF you cut it, the pill is just cover by a really slim red colored film coated, look a lot like an Aspirin pill. Nothing to compare to hard coated pills...so my guess is the Parnate will not loose his power if you cut it, since it's seem to be just a regular film coated pill who will disolve quickly in the stomach and intestine.
If you search on google, you can find the old Nardil version compare to the newer version...you will see the difference. The old version was a hard coated pill, and the new one is just a regular coated pill with color on it. It's why a lot of people complaints about the fact the newer Nardil was inneffective since they remove the hard coated film on it...
I'm not sure, but I think the Parnate in Canada is not made from the same compagny than in the States... I see some pictures of the Parnate pills you have in the States and the writing on it's in Black ink...the ones I have is not like this...and the pill don't look as brillant than the ones in the States also. So maybe in Canada we have a version not made with hard sugar coated film...
I think I see a studie about this. Parnate USA version VS Parnate Canada version. They was talking about the differences in the coated of the pill, hard coated film pill in the States and regular film coated pill in Canada and the results from the study show a similar rate of peak plasma or effect of the Canadian Parnate over the American version, so it's seem that the Parnate pills, cut or not, have the same effect...
That's too bad, I lost the link of that studies but it was a PDF document...I know some results for the Canadian version of the Parnate was lower, but not a lot lower, not to be consider like a "chepear" or worse good version of the Parnate.
I'm also convince that a lot of pills canno't be cut in 2...normally, all the XR or SR version tend to not working correctly if they are cut. They lost a lot of the powerfull effects but regular coated pills, i'm not sure...SR version sometimes are ok if cut into smaller pieces, but not XR...Anyway a lot of XR pills are made with gelatine caps with small granular pieces inside, so you can't cut pills, you can open it, but try to chew some Effexor-XR pieces , you will see, that's taste so disgusting, you will never do it again! lol
That's just my point of view...i'm not a professionnal or anything else, just a regular guy, who lost a lot of times on the Internet looking for essentials informations to recover from is problems... ;-)
Well, thanks for your advise and your answer ;-) Have a nice day!!!
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