Re: Splitting Crestor

From: Sharon Hope (shope_at_anet.net)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:52:44 -0800

"William Wagner" <No1SpamStill__B2wagner@snip.net> wrote in message
news:No1SpamStill__B2wagner-D1185B.13275809022005@altnews.snip.net...
> In article <1107972124.809854.15490@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> "Zee" <zwalanga@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> John Keiser wrote:
>> > I've been splitting 80 mg. Lipitor into 20 mgs for years. Saves a
>> lot of
>> > money.
>> >
>> > Crestor seems less expensive but I noted at least one webRx says
>> "Crestor
>> > cannot be split."
>> >
>> > Is that true? Why?
>> >
>> > Ideally I would buy the 40mg and split to 10 mg or is that not
>> physicaly
>> > possible? How large are the 20 mg and 40 mg tablets?
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
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>>
>> You may only need a very small dose:
>>
>> http://www.medicationsense.com/articles/july_sept_04/crestor_truth.html
>
> I canıt remember where , but wasnıt there a post here essentially
> stating that there was no difference between Lipitor 10 MG and a
> placebo?
>
> Was of import to me but I lost the info anyway. 10 vs. 20 MG seems
> small to a guy that went from 80 to 40 and is shooting for 20. If you
> get my drift. I break 80 into 40. Then again Iım at risk.
>
> Drugs .....Yuk

If there was such a post it was wrong. 10 mg is strong.

It was strong enough to disable my husband for much of the 4 years of taking
it, and for 3 years and counting thereafter.

At the time it came out it was several times stronger, at 10mg, than the
common dosages of the other preexisting statins.

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