I'm a wuss.

[Red Dawn]

Well you can always try Suppositories

 

[Azraele]

<< Well you can always try Suppositories >>


Hehehe, Red's got you there.

I can't swallow pills either. Makes me choke and gag.


<< Don't seem to have problems with pills or needles but I HATE those things they use to prick your finger for those blood tests. >>


Eeekkkkk! I hate the pricky thingy! :Q

 

[QTPie]

it's a piece of cake. I take vitamins pill everyday.

 

[crab]

I can swallow about ten at a time.

 

[WarCon]

You should try cutting a chocolate bar into pill size pieces and try swallowing them. If you can do that then just convince yourself that a pill is really food for your body and eat them. Just have to break the phobia that usually starts the first time your mommy/daddy made you take something nasty to make you get better when your sick. Especially if you threw it right back up, that just reinforced the phobia.

By changing the way I thought about pills I went from only being able to take one at a time with a drink to being able to swallow a whole handful at once with no gag reflex at all.

But watching fear factor still gags me when they are eating bugs and the other extremely gross things they actually eat.

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Or you could go the Mary Poppins way and put the pill in a spoonful of honey and then put it all in your mouth and then take a drink of water to wash both the honey and the pill down.

 

[hzl eyed grl]

I absolutely hate needles too. (That includes shots.) Every time my blood is drawn--except for the VERY rare occasion--it takes at least two tries for them to get my blood. The first time I had an IV, it took them four tries to get one in. You'd think that after all the surgeries and stuff I've had that I would be used to needles, but NOPE...not true at all. I hate 'em! :| lol

 

[tweakmm]

I can swallow about 5 nice sized pills(well, vitamins in my case) without water. I never actualy take drugs in the form of pills(I never take advil or anything like that). Until I was about 11, I could never swallow any pill, even with water

 

[Sundog]

no probs with them here.

 

[sheselectric]

<< I take six pills a day (eight on Fridays) and have developed the useful talent of being able to dry-swallow multiple pills at a time. Why bother with getting a glass of water? >>



ack, that's crazy. i can swallow pills with water just fine....but i don't like taking them without water. especially uncoated aspirin. :disgust:

 

[yakko]

If that makes you a wuss then you are one of my favorite wusses. I hope you feel better and do good on your mid term.

/waves at weezergirl

 

[SagaLore]

<< I take six pills a day (eight on Fridays) and have developed the useful talent of being able to dry-swallow multiple pills at a time. Why bother with getting a glass of water? >>



Because you need the water to help dissolve and absorb the pill contents - otherwise it just rots your stomach/intestinal lining.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

hope you feel better soon

 

[ThaGrandCow]

I haven't been able to ingest any pills since I tried to kill myself and ate ~3 bottles of assorted pills. Was sick for 3 days, couldn't even hold down water. Since then I haven't been able to eat any pill whatsoever. There was one instance where I did, but I had strep throat and had a fever of 104. I was hallucinating from being sick and ate the medication without even knowing it. Any other time I can't force myself to even raise my arm to my mouth.

 

[SpecialEd]

what?! I didn't even know this was a problem that people could have. Swallowing pills?

 

[zimmie6576]

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<< I take six pills a day (eight on Fridays) and have developed the useful talent of being able to dry-swallow multiple pills at a time. Why bother with getting a glass of water? >>



Because you need the water to help dissolve and absorb the pill contents - otherwise it just rots your
stomach/intestinal lining. >>




So the stomic acid and other fluid already in your stomach don't do anything to the pill?

 

[zimmie6576]

My little sister can't swallow pills either (though she's only 11 so I don't think that would relate).

I don't have a problem, and I rarely use any water. I can even get down some Lysine tablets with no water, and they are quite large and definiately NOT gelcapped.

Best is Claratin, it has a candy-like coating.