Hi all. First post and apologies if this has been discussed before (can't find it if it has) or if this is the wrong place to post.
I have two 200mg slow release morphine tablets. How would I break this up in to controlled normal-release doses? I need say 20-40mg at a time.
What I've read so far has been warnings not to do it, and I understand the reasoning. You don't know how the pill is structured, you don't know where the morphine is within the pill, so any splitting risks dosing on 200mg in one go. Understood.
But surely if the WHOLE THING was ground to a fine powder and dissolved in a suitable liquid, it could be dosed out accurately. Is there any way to do this? With my limited knowledge I'd be inclined to grind to a fine powder then simple dissolve in water and keep in a bottle. Each time shake it to mix it, and drink a set quantity. e.g. 10ml for 20mg, if I'd mixed the whole lot in to 100ml of water. Obviously water's probably not the best to dissolve it in, so welcome to any other suggestions. To basically create something similar to Oramorph.
What do we think? Surely there's a way of doing it.
I have two 200mg slow release morphine tablets. How would I break this up in to controlled normal-release doses? I need say 20-40mg at a time.
What I've read so far has been warnings not to do it, and I understand the reasoning. You don't know how the pill is structured, you don't know where the morphine is within the pill, so any splitting risks dosing on 200mg in one go. Understood.
But surely if the WHOLE THING was ground to a fine powder and dissolved in a suitable liquid, it could be dosed out accurately. Is there any way to do this? With my limited knowledge I'd be inclined to grind to a fine powder then simple dissolve in water and keep in a bottle. Each time shake it to mix it, and drink a set quantity. e.g. 10ml for 20mg, if I'd mixed the whole lot in to 100ml of water. Obviously water's probably not the best to dissolve it in, so welcome to any other suggestions. To basically create something similar to Oramorph.
What do we think? Surely there's a way of doing it.
