Suggesting that you cut one of them, and put the contents into a very small container, like a 2 ounce one.
Then, put a tablespoon of water, and a couple of teaspoons of water into it. Preferably distilled water, but not likely a terrible thing if you don’t have it right now.
A tablespoon is 15cc’s, and a teaspoon is 5 cc’s. Total, you would have put 25cc’s of water in with the contents of that 5mg capsule. So each teaspoon (5cc’s) of liquid will be 1mg.
Have one like that tonight. Then, have one and a half teaspoons of the liquid tomorrow night. And for the next week. One and a half milligrams is a good amount to introduce your body to it for a while. For the next week, or two. If you have vivid dreams, or sleep changes, it’s letting you know it’s doing stuff. That amount would be a good place to stay for a while, because 5mg is likely to be too much, but you can still express appreciation for the prescription.
From another poster:
ot knowing how fast I was going to increase my dose, I asked the doc to prescribe 3 mg capsules and that has been a good compromise. I do open the capsules and dump the contents into however much distilled water I need to be divisible into the doses I want. Then you store the extra doses in the fridge in a, preferable brown, glass bottle. I use one with an eye dropper as this makes it easier to extract the dose I want.
I have a glass ml measuring vial, but many just buy a plastic one from the baby section of the pharmacy. It only takes a minute to mix up the doses (after you do the math!) and the only trick is that the naltrexone crystals don’t dissolve but are suspended in the water, so you have to keep shaking the bottle well to get an even distribution when you extract your dose. Basicially, no problem!