My doctor changed my dose.
Which is stronger, digoxin 0.25 mg or 0.125 mg?
Question posted by Carolyn Marshall on 21 March 2013
Last updated on 18 June 2019 by Cmanao
5 Answers
Cmanao
19 June 2019
0.25mg
Ccpate
7 April 2017
How much to give.125mg from .25 mg tab
Chimoyo
8 Aug 2013
digoxin .25 mg is stronger than .125 Thanks
Chyk41
21 March 2013
Digoxin .25 mg is stronger then .125 mg. Are you on the higher or lower dose?
Carolyn Marshall
22 March 2013
lower dose. I was on .25 ; took 1/2 tablet each day, now take 1 tab of .125
Chyk41
23 March 2013
You most forgive my math but I was in a bit of a hurry when I wrote. If you were taking 1/2 of .25 and you are now taking the same dose, you just don't have to cut the tablet in half. Most likely when you started taking it it didn't come in the .125 or your doctor was thinking of increasing you to the full .25. He or she most have found that the dose is working for you and is now giving you the single pill so that you don't have to cut it any more. I take one that I wish came in a lower dose.
Carolyn Marshall
23 March 2013
Thank you, that is the same that I learned later from my pharmacist. Carolyn
edlennon
21 March 2013
.25 mg would be twice as strong as .125 mg.
Chyk41
21 March 2013
.25 mg is 5 times as strong as .125.
edlennon
21 March 2013
Hmmm. Wouldn't five times stronger be .625 mg?
Chyk41
21 March 2013
The closer you move to the (.) the higher it is.
edlennon
21 March 2013
But wouldn't .25 = 1/4th and .125 = 1/8th? Not trying to be argumentative, just want to proved the correct information for the OP.
kaismama
21 March 2013
You are correct ed. 0.125 is half of 0.25 5 times it is 0.625.
kaismama
21 March 2013
If your reasoning works right chyk about the decimal point, then 0.1 is less then 0.2
DzooBaby
21 March 2013
A second nurses input-edlennon is correct. 0.25mg is twice as strong as .125. It helps to think of it like money, 25 cents is more then 12 cents.
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