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Levomethorphan
What the body turns Levomethorphan into, as its Wikipedia article records it.
Quoted from Wikipedia, not yet written up by hand. Its infobox gives no timings, so this shows only what the article text says it turns into.
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.
- hoursfrom the article text
What else it turns into
“Levomethorphan is a prodrug to levorphanol, analogously to DXM acting as a prodrug to dextrorphan, or codeine behaving as a prodrug to morphine.” 2
- half-lifehalf gone
Elimination half-life
3-6 hours 1
Sources
- Wikipedia, Levomethorphan, drug infobox (revision 1378725924), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.
- Wikipedia, Levomethorphan, article text (revision 1378725924), CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences quoted as they appear.
Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.