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Drotaverine

What the body does with Drotaverine, from the dose to the exit, as its Wikipedia drug infobox records it.

Quoted from the Wikipedia infobox, not yet written up by hand. The order is the usual order of events, not a measured schedule.

DrotaverinetakenExit>50% in urine and ~30% in bile

The clock, on a log scale

Each bar runs from the dose to about five half-lives, roughly when 97% of that molecule has been converted or cleared. The scale is logarithmic so minutes and days fit on one line.

  1. doseabsorbed

    Bioavailability

    Highly variable (~65%), peak at 45–60 min 1

  2. hoursbreakdown

    Metabolism

    Hepatic 1

  3. half-lifehalf gone

    Elimination half-life

    7–16 hours 1

  4. exitleaves the body

    Excretion

    >50% in urine and ~30% in bile 1

Source

  1. Wikipedia, Drotaverine, drug infobox (revision 1366366391), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.

Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.