There’s a surprising amount of people in here that apparently can’t swallow consciously
mfw any medicin with an awful taste that needs to be dissolved in water first, but I used too much water and now I gotta drink a gallon of this stuff.
i accidentally sneezed a gabapentin 800mg (those fuckers are big) up my nose from the back after swallowing it. i don’t know how. that was a BAD week
I was once in the plane and I asked the flight attendant to please bring me some water. I wanted to swallow an Omega 3 gel cap. Thinking she wouldn’t be long (I didn’t fly often back then), I put it in my mouth. It was only a couple of seconds, but the flavour of that thing dissolving is still on my top 5 of the most disgusting things I’ve ever tasted.
… or you swallow one of those elongated pills - like an oversized multivitamin … and somehow it decides to go down your throat sideways, gets stuck on the way down and takes five minutes to painfully and slowly travel down to your stomach making you feel like this thing is going to kill you the entire time.
If you have trouble swallowing tablets and pills, even when you drink something to have it go down easier, it might be worth checking out different consistencies of food to go along with it. Many elderly people take their pills in yoghurts and puddings and stuff like that. Soft foods in general also work. A drink should usually help though.
If it’s tablets and pills that explicitly need to be taken dry, you could try a swallowing technique called a “chin tuck” where you push your chin towards your chest before swallowing and then swallow while your chin is still tucked. That way, you leave less room/area for the tablet/pill to get “stuck on”. It could help but doesn’t necessarily have to help.
In any case, it’s definitely better if you have the tablet/pill find its way into your stomach so it doesn’t just dissolve in your pharynx and have no effect
It’s like the first time in years I took Alka Seltzer and didn’t read the directions, I just popped them in my mouth thinking they were like Tums. Pro tip: don’t do that.
but those airborne brand alkaseltzers taste good
That’s how you get the rabies.
Both my partner and I had friends when we were younger who told us that chewing ecstasy makes it hit harder and more quickly. We both believed them in our naivety. I could not recommend against that more.
more quickly i believe, harder i don’t know. i have absorption issues and there are pills i have MDs orders to chew. they start working in 30 instead of 45, which is nice.
Eugh, I think I hate when it gets, like, stuck in your throat a little more
In high school I got an esophageal ulcer from an acne medication pill that got stuck. Do not recommend.
When you fall for the Advil commercials that make the coating look like delicious caramel candy, then suck a little too long.
Is this common? I don’t think it’s ever happened to me.
if i haven’t had anything or enough to drink before my morning dose, my mouth is dry to the point that taking pills is a problem. some people have dyskinesia in their throat/mouth. so like there’s two reasons, i’m sure there are more.
Some people really struggle taking pills. I definitely had this problem when I was younger and worse at taking pills.
Sometimes I put the pill in my mouth with a huge swig of water and it still somehow manages to adhere to the back of my throat. Sometimes I have to actually eat something to get it down. No idea why.
Take a big drink of olive oil before you take your pills and one after! Yummy!
no. balsamic vinegar.
Used to get gel caps stuck all the time. Now I chase them with something carbonated, bubbles break the “stick”.
