Who's taking Requip?

[Polar Bear]

Hi TT
Charlene was saying about the requip 1mg pill being difficult to cut. You bet it is!! So I bought a pill cutter !!! and just want to say be careful if you use one of those cos I gave myself a very nasty sliced thumb, and threw the cutter into the bin. The doc can prescribe the pills in smaller doses i.e. .5mg which are long shaped and really easy to cut if needed.

Betty

[lorabell]

Hi TT. Welcome aboard.
I rotate Reqquip with several other meds, so as not to get used to it. There is a word for it, but ny mind is gone right now, and I don;t expect it back anytime soon.
I have some problems with fealing pukey, but not all the time.
You might want to try a cocktail of meds and see if it works for you.
If a Dr. KNOWS rls, keep him, if he THINKS HE KNOWS, fire him. Your paying the bill and it's your rls, not his.
Comew chat with us on mon. nights, 8 pM central time.
Lorabell
aka
wowobl

[Aiken]

Betty--

Slightly off-topic, but a good pill-cutter shouldn't be able to cut you. The one I use encloses the pill and the blade inside its box when the cutting is going on. I've used it every day for 10+ years and never hurt myself.

Mine looks a lot like this one:

http://www.marvistavet.com/assets/image ... cutter.gif

You'd have to push your finger inside the part with the blade in order to cut yourself.

There are other types, though, that are similarly safety-oriented. Some might even work better than what I use.

[Polar Bear]

Hi Aiken, Yeah, the pill cutter I had also had the blade inside the box but it was difficult to place the odd shaped 1mg pill, possible it was just that it was a cheap and nasty cutter cos I took the first one I found and didn't think to look into different ones. I'll know in future.

Hi Lorabelle, I read your post about rotating your medications. I take requip topped up with codeine in the evening. It might be an idea to take just one or the other for say a week at a time.... Hmmm.. just thinking aloud.

Betty