- splitting capsules (klutz)

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Does this sound right? I'm just filling them up trying

to get them ready..

I got size 00 vegetable capsules. That's all the

heatlh food store had. They are pretty huge. I dumped

a little DMSA into one big veggie cap, then the rest

into another one, then dumped back and forth 1 or 2

times till they looked equal (hopefully this is close

enough???

I had no luck at all with that paper splitting knife

spreading process. I just made a huge powder mess.

Should I try to fill up 2 little capsules too? Right

now I have an empty little capsule sitting here, and

two huge veggie caps with (hopefully close enough to)

12.5 mgs in each....

and its ok to have all the air in them, right?

--- Jackie wrote:

> ----You need to get some empty capsules. I

> ordered a bigger size, I think " 0 " , so they would be

> easier to fill. They don't have to be full! I pull

> apart a full capsule of 25mg of DMSA, and the first

> time I dump it all out on a piece of paper. I then

> use a knife to split the pile in half. (You can

> leave one of the piles on the sheet of paper as a

> visual as to how much is half.) I then push one of

> the halves onto a smaller piece of paper that has a

> crease down the middle of it. In one hand, I hold

> the empty capsule, and with the other, I dump the

> powder into it, gently tapping the paper crease on

> the capsule to get it all in. A little bit may

> spill, and I hold it over the bigger piece of paper

> while I'm doing this. They don't have to be

> perfectly exactly half, it won't kill you! Once I

> can " eye " about how much half is, then I only dump

> half out of the capsule, and just recap the original

> capsule with half still in it. Then I only have to

> " fill " one capsule for every one I split in half.

> This does get easier as you do it more times! I

> know this isn't a video, but I hope it helps you to

> visualize it. Good luck!

>

> Jackie T>

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