I am a retired, burnt-out surveyor ...
Now, I know that surveyors, in general have a "special" relationship with numbers that possibly no other profession has.
Two hundred feet from one pin to another might mean 200', 200.0', 200.00' or 205', or even 195' ... and the specific situation may change from time to time. Sometimes(usually), the numbers are secondary to where an item is to be found and thus the number is left to a sort of interpretation as to what the number assigned really meant or an interpretation of how the number was derived in the first place.
What other profession has this "special" relationship to numbers? I can't think of any other profession, except maybe a very high mathematics.
Now ... I hope someone of us with that "special" relationship to numbers can tell me that it's "normal" ... somehow ... to divide 5 by 2, and get 2.5, but a week later divide 5 by 2 and get 2, AND wonder why it is now 2, when it was 2.5 the week before?
I'm on coumadin because of a HA a month ago and the dosage of coumadin changes and often a whole week's dosage "adjustment", is based on as little as 1/2mg of coumadin.
My coumadin is sent to me "as needed". Evidently the VA doesn't want me to have the stuff laying around and if my dosages are based on 2mg pills, they don't want me to have 5mg pills in my possession.
Last week I went to my boat and was about 2 days short of full dosage, so I took a 5mg pill with my normal 2mg pills.
I figured I would take 1/2 of a 5mg, with 1/2 of 1/2 of a 2mg for my weekend dosage. I made all the packs up last week and went.
Come Saturday, I split the 5 and for some reason thought that 5 divided by 2 would be 2 and now I could use a 1/2 of a 2mg pill to make the 3.
WORSE that that ... I actually wondered why I thought ... the few days before, that it wouldn't be as simple as it appears now.
So for two days I over-dosed on my coumadin and now I'm waiting for a re-adjustment because of it.
My big question here is I wonder how many surveyors are sometimes affected by either left being right (like the other right), or numbers not being so absolute and subject to interpretation, given the situation?
Or maybe ... am I just getting dementia?
Yup - getting old can be he11.
When you divide 5 by 2 you will get 2.5. Its not the rules of Math that allows us to change the called and found distance between two found property corners. Its the court rulings and state laws and regulations.
I know some pills you can split, and others you cant because the medical is not mixed equally in the pill.
"I know some pills you can split, and others you cant because the medical is not mixed equally in the pill."
:good: If the tablet has a groove in it it can be safely slpit, if not, leave it alone...
I had a similar dilemma not long back. My Synthroid comes in 0.125 mg (?) doses. Sawbones upped the dosage to 0.15 and I was left with an almost 90 day supply of the lower dosage.
Being the cheap SOB that I am I was trying to figure out how often I would have to take two pills to equal out to a 0.15 daily dose...
I didn't have that many fingers. This was also exacerbated by the fact the light on the stove was burned out and my glasses were in the other room. To avoid a "Henry-Fonda-On-Golden-Pond-Panic-Attack-In-The-Woods" I gave up and sat down to watch Jimmy Kimmel.
Money Penny asked what I was doing in the kitchen. I told her I couldn't remember...:pinch:
BTW - I decided to take two pills "every so often"....close enough.
If you want to take an extra (0.150 - 0.125) = 0.025 per day on average, that accumulates to a whole pill extra in 5 days (5 * 0.025 = 0.125).
But I'd be worried that the body might not average out the up-and-down dosage without some undesirable effects. With the half-life of the drug in the body (nearly a week), you may get away with it but I'm sure your doctor would not approve.
I seem to find this is a tablet, and wonder if you could break them and get the pieces down. Despite what someone else said, I wouldn't be worried about the medicine not being uniformly distributed.
>for some reason thought that 5 divided by 2 would be 2 and now I could use a 1/2 of a 2mg pill to make the 3.
I'm sorry you are having so much trouble.
But if you can't confidently and correctly do the math, please don't try to juggle dosages of something as touchy as this medicine.
> "I know some pills you can split, and others you cant because the medical is not mixed equally in the pill."
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> :good: If the tablet has a groove in it it can be safely slpit, if not, leave it alone...
My Lovastatin pills do not have grooves, yet the doctor has me take 1 1/2 pills a day. He gave me a nifty pill splitter with no exposed sharp edges.
Some of these pills are real concoctions. They are TIME release pills. Take a whole one, and it sits in your system, giving a little over a 16-20 hr period.
Cut it in half, and take the 2 halves, it HITS your system hard, then drops in 4 hrs to an unacceptable level.
Some have a concoction, that Gives you drug A, for 2 hrs, then goes to drug B, for another 8 hrs. Drug A, prepares the way for B.
Cut it in half, and BOTH hit together.
Talk with your pharmacist.
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"My Lovastatin pills do not have grooves, yet the doctor has me take 1 1/2 pills a day."
I have a friend who sells drugs (he is a pharmaceutical Company representative). He says that the manufacturers warn against splitting tablets that are not manufactured with a groove. A "split" tablet does not dissolve at the same rate as an intact one. The doctor is trying to adjust your dosage, but that procedure is not in compliance with the manufacturer's recommendations. I tend to think that the manufacturer's know their product better than my doctor.
I have another friend who was told by her doctor that it was her responsibility to determine if the drug he had prescribed for her was safe for her, and what its side effects were...
I will second that one. Our family has a collection of autoimmune disorders. Medication management can be a full time job. Early in the game I learned some hard lessons. Long and short, fiddling around can make you sicker than what you take the meds for. Talk with a really old pharmacist...
Hit it with a hammer and divvy up the dust into equal piles.
