Posted by yxibow on October 14, 2008, at 1:38:34
In reply to Re: splitting bupropion SR, posted by raisinb on October 13, 2008, at 21:12:46
> My pdoc told me that splitting bupropion XL was fine, that she's had lots of patients do it. But I don't know that she's a guru or anything.
Well -- maybe that's your doctor's opinion for you, and that's fine.
But I just can't see it from a psychopharmacology standpoint -- why make it an extended release medication, it might as well be IR. At best splitting an XL will probably cut its release part into the day, at worst, it will still be an IR.
I mean the same goes for OTC analgesics, for example, that are all-day pills -- I wouldn't want to get into splitting Aleve or something, who knows what sort of dose one would end up with.
But, that's just one view.
-- Jay
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