Pill Cutters and Creativity
People have mentioned that they cut Proscar into 1/4’s or 1/5’s…I haven’t had any luck finding a pill cutter that will cut a pill into such fractions – do they exist at all, or are all these people just using a standard pill cutter and trying to slice them up by eye? Seems like it would be very difficult to cut them accurately given the size of the pills…?! Or do multi-way slicers actually exist?
Every pharmacy I have been to has had pill cutters. Just ask them! Many of the drug companies do not want you to cut their pills (Viagra, Cialis, Propecia, Proscar) so they round the pills to make it difficult. Use your creativity and you will solve the problem. I’m sure someone out there has made a multi-split pill cutter, but I’m not familiar with any off the top of my head. Many people (and I even recommend this) will cut Proscar into 1/4 and get 1.25mg of finasteride per dosage, because it is easier to cut that way.
Pill cutters vary a lot in how easy they are to use, especially for odd shaped pills or cutting halves to get quarters. In my experience, the round ones with the separate magnifying cover with blade are very hard for this, since nothing holds the pill securely, and the blade moves as you try to cut. Others are more like paper cutters, with a hinged top and fixed blade, and many of these have various mechanisms for holding pills. Some of these are harder then others for odd shaped pills, and the ones with safety guards around the blades tend to mash the pills rather than cut then.