I couldn’t get the active ingredient of the suppositories to dissolve in the base. At the moment I don’t even remember what the active ingredient was or I’d look it up just to satisfy my own curiosity. I tried heating it but nothing was working. I think the drug was soluble in alcohol but I couldn’t find any on the bench. I ended up pouring them into the moulds with some crystalline drug still present in the melted base. I don’t know what the trick was – or maybe they were fine. Once they solidified I accidentally broke one in half! I couldn’t get it out of the mould and it broke. To fix it I warmed my spatula and fused the two pieces together. I didn’t have time to make more so the quick fix was my only option.
The last preparation was an emulsion. The trick for this was that you needed to know to add compound tragicanth to the mixture because the ibuoprofen would not dissolve. I knew to add it so I was happy.
If the preparations we not satisfactory we have to rewrite the exam. I hope I passed! Apparently last year over half the class failed the first compounding exam.
We get our results on Wednesday.
4 comments:
Oh my god. This sounds like you are part of Potions class in Harry Potter!
Yo man it's Mike. You are too Pro to worry about the small stuff, after all we both know it was hard so that all of losers have to sweat over it for the next few days. While the pros like you are going to move on to bigger and better.
Keep pwning down there mate, we all know that is why you're the best. You can make my anal medication any day!
I agree with the potions comment.
Do you think I can somehow bypass these "compounding exams" you speak of? They sound scary and stressful and like they would make me cry! But then maybe I could take one of my concoctions home with me and say things like "now I will drink my lynctus" and pretend to drink it! Who am I?!
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