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[Ghoul]

I have gotten the 4mg tabs and they are scored and easy to split in half to 2mg tabs.

Ironically they are not scored in the US. I suspect it’s because, even as a generic, they know the higher price (and profit margins) would tempt 2mg users to split 4mg.

 

[BP_6]

Ironically they are not scored in the US. I suspect it’s because, even as a generic, they know the higher price (and profit margins) would tempt 2mg users to split 4mg.

I have noticed in the USA a lot of certain medicines seem to literally be designed to make the medication difficult to cut in half evenly. With odd shapes and such or the pill is pressed in such a way that it is difficult to do without the pill crumbling. Complete bullshit.

Even have seen them especially with some expensive brand names they say the pills are coated, and shouldn't be cut in half. Only to look at the foreign version of the same pill from the same manufacturer that says it is just fine to cut in half if you do it correctly. I do know some pills you can't cut in half due to certain time release factors, but this wasn't one of them.

 

[Ghoul]

I have noticed in the USA a lot of certain medicines seem to literally be designed to make the medication difficult to cut in half evenly. With odd shapes and such or the pill is pressed in such a way that it is difficult to do without the pill crumbling. Complete bullshit.

Even have seen them especially with some expensive brand names they say the pills are coated, and shouldn't be cut in half. Only to look at the foreign version of the same pill from the same manufacturer that says it is just fine to cut in half if you do it correctly. I do know some pills you can't cut in half due to certain time release factors, but this wasn't one of them.

My understanding was lack of score line meant there was some pharmacological reason a pill couldn’t be split. But Zydus Pitavastatin from India can, while the tablets they sell in the US (also made in India) can’t.

So much for “pharmacological reason”.