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eating Nurofen

I can't guarantee but from what i've heard and experienced, is that even the ones that aren't easily splittable are codeine on the N+ side they just made some way that makes it harder to break with that clean smooth appeal.
I've found if you do a quick extraction, eg putting it in cold water the N+ side dissolves much faster confirming my suspicions only more, also i've been told by quite a few different people that the only difference is that they just don't split as easily.
 
Thanks Doooofus & Baker.

Yuppers Doooofus, I know the Ibuprofen is the blank side. I was just wondering if my first 2 points were not correct, and Ibuprofen and codenie side were sometimes switched, could I test 1 and know the whole pack was the same. Question answered, thanks ;)

gleep
 
come on guys!!! I am tryin' to kick my codeine habit here.

Anyway, just wanted to add a thought. Do you think the manufacturers could easily print N+ on the other (ibuprofen) side of the tablet, and make it appear concave when split..? I have had trouble with the clean split tablets as well as crumbly ones.. best to stick with the CWE and save your liver.
 
are splittable N+ becoming extinct?

goddamn

five damn packets of neurofen and 50 bucks later i still cant get the goods... all of them come from different pharmacies...

anyone else findin that they are getting rare??? or is it just bad luck?
i know about the batch numbers but you cant exactly ask the pharmacist to check it for you! gargh what a cunt, i could have spent that 50 on some real drugs hehahahh

heh the people at work gave me some wierd looks when i 'donated' 5 packets of neurofen plus to the first aid cabinet

as a side note... i managed to split a couple of the bad ones... it seems as though they have made the pills more crumbly than the good uns... this can be seen by the logo not being as cleanly pressed.

so the good ones are harder pressed, so the stuff binding the two halves gives way before the actual pill crumbles. POP ... damn i miss that sound lol

the shitty ones are made the same but the pills are softer, so they crumble before they split. i managed to split a couple so i wonder if theres anyway to figure out how to split these suckers...
 
Why not learn how to do a simple cold water extraction? If they are indeed becoming harder to come by, you will have learn it eventually if you persist with codeine.
 
agreed, cold water extract is the way to go.
That said I've got no idea what your on about despise
 
i like the convenience of splitting N+... once i went ice skating and on the way suddenly decided to grab some, split them in the car park and ate them. that was some fun ice skating... like floating on a rather fast cloud...

CWE takes alot more time and effort :( plus im paranoid that ill screw it up and swallow a fatal dose of paracetemol (probably the shittiest way to die i can think of)

perhaps i can engineer some sort of splitting machine... like two pieces of wood with grooves cut in, so the pill is held inbetween the two pieces of wood. then you could slide the two pieces across each other to split it... (does that make sense/???

basically i think you need some way to hold the halves together to stop them crumbling while you split them...
 
psy_taco said:
agreed, cold water extract is the way to go.
That said I've got no idea what your on about despise
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^^^^ well thats pretty self explanitory... anyone would think that CWE id great if they didnt know about N+

your saying that doing a whole extration proccess and then drinking some fould sludge that may or may not contain paracetamol is better that having 12.8mg tabs of pure codeine?
 
hmm the last several packet i've bought in north-west syd were perfectly fine

i find a ultra sharp heavy kitchen knife works wonders in cleanly splitting the tablet - if it does start to crumble i turn the pill over and come in from the other side - always works.
 
DeSpise said:

perhaps i can engineer some sort of splitting machine... like two pieces of wood with grooves cut in, so the pill is held inbetween the two pieces of wood. then you could slide the two pieces across each other to split it... (does that make sense/???
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I think you would find that such a 'device' would only make matters worse, as one side of the N+ pair is convex and one side is concave (can't remember offhand which was which), so if you tried to shear them apart then you'd be forcing the convex side to crumble instead of split apart.
 
I'm pretty sure that you wont be drinking a fatal dose of paracetamol of you do a cold water extraction on Nurofen Plus.... hell you wont even get it if you eat them whole............


That said, I've found the whole 'new batch' of Nurofen Plus tablets to be absolute BS as every single packet I have had has split fine. You are correct tho, there are some which appear to have bound a little stronger or such but I have always seen two distinct halves in the tablet.

Maybe you're just crap at cutting them in half? I know when I bugger up the cut they dont break cleanly.

stace.
 
I believe the age of the tablets causes them to be unsplitable (even though they can still be split). Heres a few tips:
- Pinch the tablet with your left thumb and index finger, with you right hand place the blade of a sharp knife ontop of the tablet in the middle and rest the handle on the table. Push down hard.
- If it doesn't look like it is going to split properly turn the tablet over and try again.
- You can use a serated knife and saw down the middle of the tablet, it will fall apart into two halves with a few scores.
- Put the tablets on your tounge with the n+ face down, swallow down with grape fruit juice.

I do CWE on Nurofen Plus because I can't stand the taste of the binders in them. What do they use? it makes me want to gag just thinking about it. Coffee filters cost $2 for a pack of 40 and it takes 10min to do. Mix the result with some cordial and you have one tasty drink :D

armadilliO: You can always buy a new knife, you can't buy new teeth ;)
 
A sharp knife should work well with hard tablets, but if they've modified their game by making them more crumbly then why not just scrape away at the paracetamol side until youre down to the codeine half? a cheap disposable razor would probably do the job
 
stacyrox said:
I'm pretty sure that you wont be drinking a fatal dose of paracetamol of you do a cold water extraction on Nurofen Plus.... hell you wont even get it if you eat them whole............
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you are 100% correct. you wont OD on paracetemol from eating N+ tablets because they do not contain any paracetemol

stacyrox said:
That said, I've found the whole 'new batch' of Nurofen Plus tablets to be absolute BS as every single packet I have had has split fine. You are correct tho, there are some which appear to have bound a little stronger or such but I have always seen two distinct halves in the tablet.

Maybe you're just crap at cutting them in half? I know when I bugger up the cut they dont break cleanly.

stace.
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if im 'crap at splitting them' then please explain why i can split 100% of the N+ with the clean crisp logos with no problems whatsoever. there is definately some that split cleanly almost every time, and some that crumble.

as i said before you can see a definate difference in the logos. i can tell if a pack will split or not by looking at one tablet. the good ones have a cleaner, sharper imprint on them.

the 'ageing' thoery is interesting but it doesnt explain the difference in the logos, since they are coated and the logo will stay the same as the day it was pressed.

i guess i will have to track down some splittable ones, and compare the expiry dates to the crumblers... if the clean splits expire before the crumbly ones do then that will prove (to me at least :P) that there is a difference in the tablet composition.

perhaps they are on to the N+ racket, maybe theyre just manufactured differently, or whatever, but since so many people seem to still be getting the splittables i will take that as a good sign :)
 
It's just a matter of luck. Some batches are good, some are bad (regardless of age - I've had many 2007 expiry batches that don't split easily/well) - but they haven't changed the basic fact of ibu on one side, codeine on the other (n+) side.
To prove this - when you get the ones that "don't split", dump the blank half in a glass of cold water and the codeine will quickly disolve and leave you with the familiar concave ibuprofen side.
Some batches are difficult, but practice and varying your chopping angle/pressure/knife can help make them split just like the good batches most of the time. Other batches are damn near impossible to split as per normal and you're left with the options of CWE or just accepting the smaller amount of codeine from the bad split.

:)
 
Nurofen threads merged. OK people there are almost 7 pages of replies here now - everything should be covered ad nauseum. Please try reading a few pages to see if your questions have been covered...

BigTrancer :)
 
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