Struggling to cut my t3 tablets in half even wi... - Thyroid UK
Struggling to cut my t3 tablets in half even with very sharp knife. Some are perfect, some just fragment. Any ideas?
Get a tablet splitter from chemist, much better then a knife. They are not expensive.
They snap easily between forefingers and thumbs with the score mark pointing away. Always crumbled if I tried to cut.
I agree, forefingers and thumb nail in the centre.
You need to buy a tablet cutter sharp box to prevent any injuries and safely measure your medication
I got my tablet cutter from Superdrug and the pharmacist also uses the same one. It works well. If it is slightly out it doesn't matter. It wasn't expensive. I fill up my 7 day box weekly.
Yep Me too - pill cutter from Tesco's excellent little gadget - very accurate! xx
Pill cutter does it for me too..(Boots)
I'm far more relaxed about the precision cut these days ...rightly or wrongly saying to myself that over 2 days I get the whole 20 mcgs anyway.x
Pillmate cutter £2.99 from my local pharmacy.
Bite them. I have always done this with tablets. Scalpels. Any model shop or online - Amazon sell them.
I already had a pill cutter but spotted one last week in Asda costing only £1.00 - it works brilliantly!
Having had little success with a pill cutter (for Hydrocortisone - which is quite a "crumbly" tablet!) I tried a small, very sharp pair if nail scissors, and they work a treat - very precise and no waste, even when I have to cut the tablet into quarters 
Thank you all for your help
Hi I asked my pharmacist if he could cut them for me and he very kindly did it,
The advantage of doing it yourself, one tablet at a time, is that if one "half" is slightly too big or small, because you are taking the other "half" as you next dose, they balance out very quickly. If the pharmacist does a batch, you just might take all the small ones before all the big ones - and so end up skewing your dose - e.g. two weeks sightly under-dosed, then two weeks slightly over-dosed.
The other factor is what happens to any powdery, crumbly bits - I guess they get lost. Doing it yourself, you can make sure you don't lose anything.
Rod
