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When I was a little girl I could not/would not swallow pills. To take non-liquid medicine was quite a chore of crushing and then mixing. A spoon full of jelly was probably my favorite; and I remember taking crushed medicine with peanut butter, applesauce, even a little maple syrup.
My friend wanted to help me take pills by just swallowing them with water. I’m guessing I was about 10 and she was about 13…
I had spent the night and we were doing things around her neighborhood when we ended up at her grandmother’s to water plants or something. If I remember right her grandmother wasn’t there and she was helping take care of the house.
So I had a headache; her grandma had medicine; and she had determination to teach me to swallow a whole pill.
She presented me with a pill and a huge glass of water. In my memory it was a really big amount of water because I didn’t care much for plain water.
According to her coaching I threw the pill as far back in my mouth as I could.
“Now just drink the water.” I still hear her voice in my brain.
I took two big swigs and showed her the pill.
“Throw it back in and drink some more.”
I took about 4 big swigs before I opened my mouth and showed her the pill reclining on my tongue. It was now starting to dissolve.
“Just drink all the water and don’t stop until it goes down.”
I ran out of water and she let me spit the disgusting thing out.
I eventually swallowed pills whole when I had antibiotics, or my wisdom teeth out, or somewhere along the line when I had a prescription. I still have to be careful or I’ll gag on my vitamins.
When I do I can picture my friend shaking her head at me and saying, “You really should learn how to just swallow them. It’s much easier.”
Sure.
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on Apr 17th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I’m laughing so much I’m crying. I don’t remember that, but I can see why you do. Maybe that voice in your head will help you yet. Hehe.
on Apr 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
how funny! When I was younger…i TOTALLY had trouble too! i could NOT swallow pills……I was the same way as you! It was horrible! Thankfully…now I can….but as a kid…it was tragic for me! ahahahaa!
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on Apr 20th, 2008 at 8:17 am
that’s funny. now i’m the opposite, i can swallow a pill with no drink to follow at all. the bigger ones call for a drink, but usually i have no problems. i have a child who needed to be able to swallow a prescription for strep or something and she just couldn’t do it. the doc suggestion buying a pack of tictacs for her to practice with. it worked like a charm.
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on Apr 20th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I couldn’t swallow pills either until sometime around my 18th birthday. Everything I had to take was either ground up in applesauce, or prescribed in liquid form, and at the time, they didn’t have those fun flavor additives. Everything tasted like liquid Nyquil with an extra dose of disgusting.
Sometime, for some reason, I was able to finally start swallowing pills, but I still have to sort of disconnect in my mind — go to my happy place — while I’m doing it, or they still get stuck on my tongue.
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