u/Hol_1

TLDR: Dr says tablets are made to be split for easy swallowing, and that a 2.5mg dose is fine, but that I can’t split a 5mg tablet and take a 2.5mg dose.

(Just to preface, I will be listening to my prescribers advice, but am just curious if anyone has an explanation)

Hello all, I recently had a conversation with my prescriber and it’s left me a bit confused. For the last 4 weeks I’ve been prescribed 60mg of elvanse and a 5mg dex top up. I had tried 70mg but found it a bit too intense when it kicked in, and also found it wore off sooner than I’d like so we agreed to drop the dose and then take a top up later.

I found that the 5mg was messing with my sleep in the evening + also that the elvanse was taking too long to kick in in the morning, meaning I still found myself rushing around to leave for work if I was doing an opening shift (time blindness is a big issue for me). So I played around with it a bit and started splitting the 5mg dose, so I would take half a dex tablet first thing if I was working in the morning + then delay my elvanse until about 9am. And if I was doing the closing shift (and therefore didn’t need to be raring to go first thing in the morning) I would take my elvanse in the morning + then half a dex tablet at about 1pm which sustained my focus long enough for the rest of the day. (Total dose of 60mg elvanse and 2.5mg dex on any given day).

This has been working great for me, has removed any sleep issues and has increased my productivity in the mornings, but when I told my prescriber this today they said I couldn’t do it as the dex tablets aren’t made to be a split dose. I said that hadn’t occurred to me as the tablets are instant release, non-coated, and have the scored lines in them to be able to split the tablets and so I hadn’t even considered that it would be a problem (I understand medication delivery mechanisms and wouldn’t be messing with extended release or capsules or anything). They said the lines are there to split the tablet for ease of swallowing and that they could look to prescribe me a 2.5mg dose instead.

This is where I’m confused- if the tablet is made to be split for ease of taking, then splitting it isn’t the problem. And if they can prescribe 2.5mg, then the dose isn’t the problem. So where is the issue with what I’ve been doing? I can only assume it’s them covering their backs with following official guidelines, and maybe the risk of uneven dosage across the two halves of the tablet, but if I’m allowed to take the FULL tablet then surely that wouldn’t matter? I will be following the prescribers advice going forward and will just play around with the time I take my medication but it just seemed a bit nonsensical to me.

Can anyone with a MagSafe phone case from popsocket tell me how secure the magnets in the case are when attaching other accessories? I know the magnets in the popsockets themselves are supposed to be great but I’m looking to attach my xteink e-reader + want to make sure it’ll be a strong hold since the cases aren’t cheap. Thanks!

I’ve been reading a lot of recent release fantasy and sci-fi lately and mostly enjoying it, but I find myself pining for the times in my youth when I’d finish a book and get bored and my Granda would say ‘give me two minutes’ and then clunk around in the attic for half an hour, before emerging with a dusty mass market paperback with those sun-yellowed edges and that glorious Book Smell, written by someone I’d never heard of. Somehow those books *mostly* ended up being fantastic (and now their covers featuring scantily clad muscular folk and various fantastical enemies continue to yellow on my own bookshelves).

And so I ask you to please recommend your ephemeral books to me- the one you picked up at a charity shop because it sounded a bit interesting and was buy one get one free, or took from one of those tables in a hotel because it was the only one written in English, or was given to you by someone because ‘you MUST read it’ but then sat forgotten for an undetermined amount of time before you happened across it again when you had nothing better to do. The ones that really stuck with you after, but no one you’ve asked since has heard of them.

They don’t have to be life-changing works of epic fantasy (although if you have an obscure one of those, please do tell) but just ones that you would never have picked up on your own, but are glad that you did.

(This was mostly inspired by coming across a book purloined from my Granda’s attic called Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw. If you’re a fan of RPG’s or are impatiently awaiting DCC 8 you should give it a go…but don’t hold it against me if it hasn’t held up well, I haven’t read it since I was about 13).