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
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0.25mg
How much to give.125mg from .25 mg tab
digoxin .25 mg is stronger than .125 Thanks
Digoxin .25 mg is stronger then .125 mg. Are you on the higher or lower dose?
lower dose. I was on .25 ; took 1/2 tablet each day, now take 1 tab of .125
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.
Thank you, that is the same that I learned later from my pharmacist. Carolyn
.25 mg would be twice as strong as .125 mg.
.25 mg is 5 times as strong as .125.
Hmmm. Wouldn't five times stronger be .625 mg?
The closer you move to the (.) the higher it is.
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.
You are correct ed. 0.125 is half of 0.25 5 times it is 0.625.
If your reasoning works right chyk about the decimal point, then 0.1 is less then 0.2
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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