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Depakote is dense

I was going through our prescription bottles and getting rid of the old meds that we aren't ever going to use. Among the discards was my bottle of Depakote which I stopped taking because it didn't seem to be doing any good and it made me feel slightly nausiated all the time as well as making me a bit emotionally roller-coastery.

So how do you get rid of meds? You flush them down the toilet. So I dumped the Depakote and hear it make a disturbing clank-clank-clank as the pills hit the bottom of the bowl. Depakote, it turns out, is as dense as lead. So now I have what amounts to a pile of lead shot sitting at the bottom of my toilet. Flushing acomplishes nothing because the pills are to heavy to budge.

I say to myself, "Who cares. They'll just dissolve overnight and be gone in the morning."

That was four days ago.

And still they remain at the bottom of the bowl mocking me. The coatings fo the pills have fused into one large membrane, but you can still make out the individual pills. And they just aren't going anywhere despite dozens of fluses and even a go with the plunger. I have no idea what it takes to make this stuff dissolve. Do I need to pour a bunch of HCl into my toilet?

I know that I should just stick my hand in there and pull them out, but I'd rather not do that if I can in any way avoid it.