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(Message started by: achinghead on Mar 29^th, 2003, 10:23am)

Title: splittin imitrex.. need advice
Post by achinghead on Mar 29^th, 2003, 10:23am

Hey.. I use the imitrex tip and it seems to work fine .. however, I dont always get the dosage even and I have tried to split it into 3- 2mg doses but havent had luck. Is there a way to get the med out of the vial and put it into something to where I can get some syringes and draw it up into even doses? Or is there a way to draw it from the vial into just the syringe? Please let me know how you guys do it... thanks..
Johnny, You seem to be the expert here.. how do you do it

Title: Re: splittin imitrex.. need advice
Post by Frank on Mar 29^th, 2003, 10:58am

One of the little glass bottles with a screw on cap that a gram of cocaine comes in (ask a friend who does that stuff). Boil the bottle for a couple of minutes so it is sterile. Inject your Imitrex into the bottle. Then you can draw 1/3 or 1/2 dose from the bottle into a syringe. That should do it. Any similar (narrow diameter) bottle should do, but MUST be sterile.

Title: Re: splittin imitrex.. need advice
Post by cbolony on Mar 29^th, 2003, 11:04am

achinghead tell your doctor to order the imitrex in the vials.They come in 6mg i use them all the time.and make him write a scrip for needles with the vials

Title: Re: splittin imitrex.. need advice
Post by Frank on Mar 29^th, 2003, 12:36pm

cbolony's suggestion is the best way to go. If you have to split the statdoses here's another idea (I just got back from the hardware store)....

Get a 6-32x2 inch screw and a nut. (Don't use #4's... the nut is too small).
Screw the nut almost all the way up onto the screw.
Carefully set the screw down into the statdose vial.
Adjust the nut down so the distance from the nut to the top of the vial is equal to 1/2 of the amount of Imitrex in the vial (assuming you want 1/2 a dose).
When you push the screw down until the nut hits the top of the vial... that is 1/2 a dose.

If this works ok for you... you can make a permanent rig using two nuts tightened together (locks them so they can't move).

Title: Re: splittin imitrex.. need advice
Post by jonny on Mar 29^th, 2003, 1:14pm

Expert?.....I dont think so......Any and every thing I know about CH I learned from this website.

All I did when I used Imitrex was to peel the lable back so I could see the level and eye the amount I was taking.

.............................jonny

Title: Re: splittin imitrex.. need advice
Post by achinghead on Mar 29^th, 2003, 2:00pm

Frank.. good sugestions. I just went out to my shed and got everything I need.. Why didnt I think of that..
Jonny, sorry .... u just seem pretty knowledgable on this stuff.. Ive learned more in here in the past few weeks than all of my 16 yrs of having this...

Title: Re: splittin imitrex.. need advice
Post by jonny on Mar 29^th, 2003, 2:04pm

on 03/29/03 at 14:00:41, achinghead wrote:

u just seem pretty knowledgable on this stuff.. Ive learned more in here in the past few weeks than all of my 16 yrs of having this...

Thats what im talking about.....the longer your here the more you learn......LOL

Dont be sorry!!!!

Keep reading and one day you will teach your Doc about CH.

...................................jonny