Some people, me included, have huge trouble swallowing large tablets anywhere from half a gram (500mg) upwards. Whenever I go to the doctors and I see him scribbling out a prescription, I’m always etching to see the dosage. If the dreaded 500mg mark is on my prescription my heart generally sinks at the thought of trying desperately to swallowing the tablet or capsule for 10 minutes or so, before giving up by it either disintegrating into a yucky tasting mess in my mouth, or trying to cut it up, or even biting it in half to lessen the pain. If it turns out to be a capsule, these tend to be worse as they are long, and look far bigger.
One day last month I had had enough. I was so ill, I couldn’t even bare to watch tv, and had a whole week of pure unentertaining boredom off of work. I was given these capsules, 500mg to take 3 times a day. That topped it. I decided that I would sit down and learn how to swallow these damn things.
It’s not like I can’t swallow things bigger sized. If I have a chip butty for example, I can’t stop myself taking huge bites and eating it within 4 or 5 mouthfuls with little chewing. Yes that is bad for me, but it’s an instant reflex proving that I can equally experience the opposite extreme, so it was just a question of learning what the difference between the two were.
My solution; If I’m thirsty, I would quite often gulp a large glass of water down while keeping my breath held. I may not finish the whole glass, but the point is I am swallowing large volumes of liquid time after time without breathing. This is a natural feeling that occurs when I feel thirsty and drink, but I can force myself to do the same thing otherwise, just maybe not for quite as long.
This is the feeling that I would use as my basis to swallow the tablet. Maybe have a trial first, naturally drink a couple of mouthfuls fairly quickly. When comfortable pop the pill into your mouth, front or middle; somewhere where it is comfortable is the key. Then start drinking as you did before, but keep drinking as if you were drinking the whole glass. Don’t worry what the tablet is doing, just concentrate on drinking all of the drink quite quickly. You will not be able to control the location of the tablet, but just keep that out of your mind as you will find before long you have swallowed it like anything else with that same exact feeling.
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