Westerner studying in India – Can't swallow pills

If the sky falls, where will I hide?

If you can swallow hard food, you can swallow any pill, problems is only in mind...and believe me, that when you will be 'so sick', you would even swallow a nuclear bomb to get rid of the unending discomfort

For any worthwhile advice, consult the doctor

It's starting to look like many people have trouble swallowing pills?

Funny, had never thought of it.

Strange neurosis, you'd think; I mean with modern folk being hung-up about their health, then allergic to the means to address it.

Not making fun of it, really; just peculiar.

As Mach mentioned, not all pills/capsules can be crushed or opened and taken as powder. Some, for instance, are coated to survive stomach acid, if they need to deliver their load further down the system; others incorporate a time-release mechanism in the solid design, and, I guess, a few are just too revolting.

It is a simple matter to discuss this with the prescribing doctor. Although I can imagine some might not have patience with the phobia, I'm sure most will adjust the prescription, or arrange injection or intravenous drip, although the latter would be time-consuming and relatively expensive
All phobias are strange, especially as we usually know, in our logical minds, that we have no reason or basis whatsoever for them. Hypnotherapy could be useful.

I did not know how to swallow pilss and it was difficult, scratch my throat and other pain. If you know how to do it easy. Put a pill in your mouth. Move by your head fast back and it is inside. Drink something to help it. You can exercise with vitamins everyday. Maybe you will find more how to do it at internet.

I'm guessing... it's not like that, not a question of not knowing how to do it, although there may be a technique to fool oneself.

Imagine the thing you most loathe the flavour of, or that would be most disgusting to eat. This is easy for me, as aniseed and similar flavours qualify: my system just refuses to swallow. It may be psychological, but you just can't.

I guess doctors must be used to encountering such people, just as they will be used to encountering the occasional patient with a needle phobia.

I have always wondered about this strange way of taking pill (or I am just getting the process wrong). Do you mean to say that first you swallow the pill and then drink something?

The best way is to take the pill in the mouth, sip some water and swallow both together.

place it way back and wash it down with water. Not swallow and then drink water. that's what i was taught when younger and couldn't/wouldn't take pills.

Now i don't give it much thought.

Isn't injection the simple answer?

Of course, I don't know if all antibiotics are available in that form, but many are.

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A bit tedious, though, when it needs to be taken three times a day for a week!

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Trouble Swallowing Pills?

It seems strange but it is working. Do not give it much thought, just do it. Of course if somebody got a mental problem to swallow pills the solution is not easy.

Maybe a good solution because an injection is more healthy (not going through stomach) and usually one a day! I got once antiobiotics by this way.

Good info A pill swallowing cup! If only there were such a thing for cats!

For me the trick is to take one sip of water in your mouth, don't swallow, then throw the pill in your mouth and drink more water (now swallow). Like this even atomic bomb pills can be swallowed. Looks funny, but works well

I took only once antibiotics against stomach bugs in India, but they were normal size, nothing extraordinary.

Taking antibiotics with milk is not a good idea, as milk will block the effect.

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