TW poop + extended release tablets.

[snarp]

Today I learned about ghost pills. You poop out a pill and think it didn't absorb, but it did absorb. The pill you pooped out is inert, merely a ghost of the pill it once was. A ghost which is haunting your colon.

I have objections to this delivery method. They are perfectly rational objections that are not just about me not wanting a haunted colon. I offered them to my psychiatrist, in one of my many whiny emails describing problems which she obviously cannot solve:

I think this is a really irresponsible XR technique, particularly for a psychiatric drug. I skimmed some message boards before finding that article, and a lot of people refuse to take drugs that do this, or suffer a loss in perceived effectiveness, because they're convinced that the tablets aren't being properly absorbed. It makes me wonder if the goal's just to make the things impossible to halve for market-control reasons.

[/practicing medicine which I am totally competent to do]

Comments

[vass]

Metformin does that. I hadn't heard the term 'ghost pill' for it before. I love it. The term, not the pill.

[wordweaverlynn]

I'm fascinated and a bit appalled.