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I went to the doctor yesterday for some throat problems and he perscribed me some Acid Reflux medicine to take care of it (despite that NOT being the problem, but I won't go into that). The medicine he gave me says I have to swallow it whole and can't beak it up or chew it. The problem is that I've NEVER been able to swallow pills, and my throat problems are just making the situation worse.

 

Anyway, am I the only person on the board that can't swallow pills?

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Guest The Old Me

Yes, yes you are.

 

 

I had problems when I was younger, probably until I was 16 or so. No problems anymore though.

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Up until a few months ago I couldnt swallow a pill for the life of me and I still struggle with it. Just practice and practice, take one huge gulp of water, swallow it, put the pill on your tounge, take another large gulp of water, and swallow it down. Takes alot of time to master, good luck.

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Guest Danny Dubya v 2.0
I went to the doctor yesterday for some throat problems and he perscribed me some Acid Reflux medicine to take care of it (despite that NOT being the problem, but I won't go into that). The medicine he gave me says I have to swallow it whole and can't beak it up or chew it. The problem is that I've NEVER been able to swallow pills, and my throat problems are just making the situation worse.

 

Anyway, am I the only person on the board that can't swallow pills?

Would've joined you there last spring. When my parents begged for me to take a pill medicine to improve my focus in school, one morning I took a pill to a room away from my folks so they couldn't tell me I was acting like a fucking toddler (and I was) and just swallow it, and waited a half hour before putting it in my mouth.

 

Once I did, it went into my inside cheek, used orange juice and barely felt it going down. So I deceived myself into thinking I've been trying it the wrong way for all those years, and the right way was swishing thicker-than-water fluid into my cheek and then swallowing... until 2 days later I swallowed it straight down by accident and realized there was no proper way... and I just had a completely irrational fear of swallowing pills =P

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huh, huh, huh, you said swallow.

 

I can pop any pill, its kinda scarry since I've been doing it for years and I hear that when you dont mix water with certain ones it fucks up your kidneys, but either way, I gotta die somehow.

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Guest stardust

I have absolutely no problem swallowing pills. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, though.

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Guest Retro Rob

I have no problems. As a kid I always liked pills better than liquid or cutting up the pill because if you just swallow it there is very little after taste. Interestingly enough, I just popped two pills like 30 seconds ago.

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Guest Insanityman

No problems, never really had any. Just big gulp and water and force 'em down. Smaller pills I can take without water.

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What kind of acid reflux medicine you on? I've tried almost everyone on the market both perscription and non and I can't find any that work. Even my doctor gave up trying.

They have me on Nexium...and I STILL can't swallow the damn thing.

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Papacita: PUt the pill in a cup of pudding. Then eat the pudding.

I was gonna say ice cream/yogurt myself. In fact, if you put it in a bowl of say, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream, you'd HAVE to swallow it. You'd just mistake it for one of the delicious bits of chocolate and/or cookie dough.

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Guest stardust

It didn't work because you know it's there. Get someone else to put it in something, just don't tell you what it is, and then you have to pick....or something. Just don't think about it actually being there.

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When I was younger I couldn't swallow pills either. My doctor told me that I should try putting them with some banana. I tried that and eventually got to where I could swallow a pill by itself.

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Guest The Old Me

Put pill in mouth. Drink large gulp of (name favorite beverage). Tilt head back and swallow.

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Guest wwF1587

i never had a problem ... i can swallow pills without the help of a beverage... and have been able to since i was 13... Cheers!

 

::pops two tylenol in::

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Guest The Old Me
So..many...post...

 

So...many...swallowing...jokes...

 

I...I can't take it.

 

*leaves*

Get a hold of yourself man!!!

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Papacita, keep on trying man, it'll come to you. It never worked for me until I was in really really bad pain and had to have a pain killer...so uh, try to swallow a pain killer, just get a hammer or something....:mellow:

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Guest ToddRoyal

It took me forever to get used to swallowing pills. I had chewable tylenol until I was 15.

 

The only way I learned is when I had symptoms of Lyme disease and I had to take these HUGE pills to prevent the disease. It took me like a week to get used to swallowing them w/o gagging, but once I could do those pills I could do any.

 

I don't think that'll help you any though. Try swallowing something like a piece of candy or something you know tastes good and you could stand having in your mouth first. (Something that will disolve though, not an M&M or a Skittle). Once you get used to that, try the meds.

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Guest Italian Stallion

I always prefered pills over anything else too. I can take like 4 pills at a time now. No problem for me.

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