Sumatriptan Succinate Packaging

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One takes sumatriptan succinate for migraines. When one has started, it is tough to see clearly. However, the blister packaging of this drug is diffilcult and frustrating to deal with even without a migraine being present! WHY do these pills have to be packaged this way??????

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Well, unless you're storing them for a very long time, there's really no reason they have to stay in that packaging. You'd want to make sure to keep them out of reach of children and pets, but you could take them out of the blister packs ahead of time, so when you need to take one for a migraine, you're not fighting with the packaging at an inopportune time. :-)

Learn more Sumatriptan details here.

I used to get muscle relaxants in similar packaging and I'd sit down with about a weeks worth at a time, when I was feeling up to it and just take them out of the blister packs and put them in a pill bottle, which I printed my own label for, so it was clearly marked. Then for that week, when I was in pain and needed one, I didn't have to deal with fighting to get them out, so I could take one.

Do you use them regularly?

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My doctor suggests me to take Sumatriptan Tablet 100mg for migraine. I want to know the side effects of this tablet.

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As I understand it, Sumatriptan will degrade when exposed to the elements, thus the frustrating packaging. Most recently, my newer packaging requires a scissors to open, so you can SEE your relief but unless you happen to have a scissors with you when a migraine strikes, you can't GET TO relief. The agitation just adds to the migraine. I've found that if you just fold on the "Cut Here to Open" line back and forth a few times, the foil will separate and....voila...you can expose your medicine.

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I agree that the newer packaging, requesting a scissors, is just horrendous. I don't find that it's easy to bend back and forth on the dotted line a few times, and then easily open. Takes me at least 5 minutes. I don't want to pre-open them because they hang out in my purse which ends up in all kinds of environments: cold, wet, hot, etc., and could also be in there for weeks or more before used. You should be able to carry these with you and take at a moment's notice. For instance, on a plane! No scissors allowed! I plan to write a complaint to the mfr. (Dr. Reddy's)

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Actually, coming from Europe, the blister like Sumatriptan is packaged in, it she best and most common packaging. So far only in the US have I seen the bulk manycines in childproof huge plastic containers.
As for the Sumatriptan blisters being childproof themselves, so much that one has to use scissors to open now, well that's another story. Blister packaging in general is good!.

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