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My husband takes 1.5 pills of Seroquel twice a day. The pills are tiny. My pharmacy does not offer pill splitting service.

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Thank you, MJ1929.
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Worriedspouse, you won't believe what I use..... pet nail cutters. The type that look like scissors but they have a round hole in the center of the metal cutting part.

This works for all sizes of pills, if you are able to hold the pill to be able to cut it in half. The other day I as able to cut in half one of those huge antibiotics pills.
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Check that it's okay to split the pills first. Some are polished or coated so that the medication is released once the pill gets past the stomach, for example, or gradually in transit through the gut; and these types either won't work (because they're destroyed by stomach acid) or you'll get too high a dose in a short time.

Your pharmacist can certainly advise you about that (make sure you speak to a pharmacist, not the teenage herbert behind the till); and frankly ought to dispense the right size tablet, too. Seroquel is available in 25mg, 100mg, 200mg and 300mg so they should be able to dispense what your husband needs.

If in all seriousness he has been prescribed 37.5mg 2 x daily, I should speak to his doctor and ask if 2 x 25mg in one dose and 1 x 25mg in the other would do just as well. Or in any case *some* solution better than your having to use a jeweller's loup and a scalpel to try to split the little beasties every day (and watch half of it ping across the kitchen, I dare say).
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I've use a Safety Shield tablet cutter that I bought randomly at a drugstore years ago. You can find them at a Walgreens or Target if you're in the U.S. It's more difficult to split small pills in general but the rubber "V" shape guide helps line it up, and then there's a mini guillotine that comes down when you close the top. I've split some tiny pills with it and it generally works for this.

You might ask your hub's doctor to prescribe a different dose. If it's that physically small of a pill and is dosed at even less, then there could be a different dispensing quantity that would work without you having to split them.
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