Help! i just chewed my Ritalin by mistake?

Question

Hey

I'm a 22 year old male around 200 pounds and i have been prescribed 10mg of Ritalin about 2 weeks ago. Well anyway, the pills are very small and i normally place them in my mouth and then take a drink of water. A moment ago i did just that but i didn't swallow the pill. The pill instead sat on the side of my mouth and i started eating chips (i didn't feel it because of the size) . As i was chewing the chips i felt myself bite into something hard and i got a very nasty taste in my mouth so i swallowed and then i realized it was my Ritalin. i searched on yahoo and i found a site that said i can possibly die. Has anyone done this before by mistake and turned out ok?

Answer 1

If your Ritalin says SR or LA on the bottle, then you have a long-acting form of the medication. It's meant to dissolve slowly in the stomach and gradually release the medicine into your bloodstream. By chewing it, you could have too much medicine release too soon.

The advice by others to call your doctor, or poison control is valid.

You should also tell someone in your household (or call a friend if you're alone) and let them know what happened in case you pass out or for some other reason can't tell them later.

Better safe than sorry.

Answer 2

try calling the national poison control center

http://www.poison.org/

Answer 3

Do not crush, chew, or break an extended-release tablet. Swallow the pill whole. It is specially made to release medicine slowly in the body. Breaking the pill would cause too much of the drug to be released at one time.

Like it says don't chew the extended release pill. If you are on the regular ritalin then you should be fine but if it was the extended release pill call your doctor and watch for warning signs that something is wrong. Very fast heart rate, nausea, vomiting, extreme dizziness, or any weird feeling that you haven't experienced on this medicine. But I do say call your doctor just to make sure if your ritalin is the extended release pills. If it is extended release the bottle will say ritalin 10mg and then extended or initials for extended.  

Answer 4

If you're really concerned, call poison control.  It seems unlikely that this could kill you.  Don't believe everything you read on the internet.  For every site you see that tells you one thing, you can probably find as many sites that will tell you the exact opposite.  

Answer 5

Call a doctor! A doctor's advice would be much better than someone on Yahoo's!