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"Thank you! I actually didn't do my tapering correctly, I stopped pretty much cold turkey, so I just started my reinstatement doses a week ago, and we're going to see if I want to up-dose in a couple days or not.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tWhen I spoke in detail to the pharmacist at one of the compounding pharmacies here in LA, she was telling me that the way they would compound the powder, adhering to PCCA's formula for doing so, is that the medicine would come in powder form, there would be an added \"filler\" that facilitates delayed release, and that the capsules themselves would ALSO be designed for delayed release (acid resistant in order to pass through stomach). The \"similar delayed release manner\" probably means that they can't guarantee it will be the EXACT same because they won' be using the same capsules, but they have designed capsules similar to the ones the meds normally come in.\n \n\n\n\tShe was reading this information directly from her portal on the PCCA website where they get all their specific formulas to follow.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tSo, if that is correct, the way I understood it is that the \"filler\" that goes inside the capsule with the powder would somehow help slow the release of the powder itself once the capsule begins to dissolve in the intestines.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tI haven't spoken to her since, because everything about my own dosage is still up in the air, but I think I have decided to go the counting beads route. I am praying and hoping that I can stay on as low a dose as possible so that the counting beads method would probably not be so big of an issue. \n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tTo the other point about the beads version. Since we know that the beads themselves cannot be crushed, the powder or liquid would be the only other versions to try.  I have read from other members here that compounding pharmacies would be able to simply divide the beads for you, essentially \"compounding\" them by counting them out and giving you the precise smaller dosage you would need, but I think at that point it's a question of you feeling it's worth it to pay for that when you could probably just do it yourself. It would take the effort out of it for you, but would cost more money.\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\tDid this first pharmacy address the equivalence/potency question? That was one of the concerns I had as well when thinking about doing this. The pharmacist I spoke to said that they do NOT test the powder for equivalence of potency compared to the beads.\n "
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