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It takes me a good 5 minutes before I can swallow a pill. Even if its super tiny. Sometimes I just crush it up but recently my doctor gave me these pills I have to take and I cant crush them or let them disolve. Is there anyway to get better at swallowing pills?
There is nothing to be afraid of when swallowing pills, and this is coming from someone with a choking phobia! I've been swallowing pills for 6 years and I've never once choked on them. Sometimes they stick to the back or side of my throat and take a few extra gulps of water to slide down, but I promise you that that's the worst that can happen.
I had a hard time learning to swallow pills too. Here is what I did - I got some pull n peels and knotted them and made progressively larger knots.
Now I can take pills pretty normally, though I think tiny ones are actually worse because they don't have as much weight to make them go down with the water. I put a little water in my mouth, tip my head back, and drop the pill into the pool of water on the far back of my tongue.
I always gag if I try swallowing pills with water...but if I take it with juice I'm fine cuz the flavor makes me want to swallow lol especially if it's a little sour like cran apple juice. It helps alot
I have exactly the same problem! And people say always say 'nothing bad will happen' and I know it won't, I just can't! I get mine crushed so I'd just stick to crushing them:) helps me so hope it helps you! But maybe keep trying?
Just pretend its food. I use to have the same problem but after a while of being forced to take tablets I got used to it
Use to be like this too people thought I was playing around or joking because I couldn't swallow pills, but i really couldn't it was hard and kinda made me throw up sometimes. I would have to chew them and if the pill was a capsule....well.. I just couldn't take it. Key is to trick yourself into believing it's something else like food, take it while eating, take it with water, or crush it. Eventually I learned to swallow pills, but from time to time it happens and I can't swallow them.
Put some water in your mouth, tilt your head up pop the pill in real fast put some more water swallow like your just drinking water forget the pill us there. Works for me
I was like that too. Then I tried hiding it in food which kinda worked but then I just drank a glass of water and it worked fine.