• thrawn
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    21 year ago

    Here’s to getting all those achievable goals!

    On the pill front, is it possible to crush them and mix with something more easily swallowable?

    • Sombyr
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      21 year ago

      Some of them I can, and do. Others aren’t crushable. With my doctors help I was able to get all the most important pills to be either crushable or dissolvable, and the rest are really small. Usually I’ve been able to get through them fine lately, but there have been nights I had to skip anything I had to swallow because I couldn’t get them down.

      Actually, it does occur to me that I was offered one of my meds in liquid form and rejected it once because it tastes awful and the pills were already small. I should probably ask for that so I have a little less to swallow every night.

      • thrawn
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        21 year ago

        Not to make light of things, but the first thought that came to my head for counteracting bad tasting medicine is a spoonful of sugar.

        • Sombyr
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          21 year ago

          It’s been so long since I’ve seen that that I completely forgot how dated the editing was. I think as a kid I thought they used actual magic in that movie.

          Unfortunately as I remember the one time I was given the med in liquid form, it tasted very similar to watered down bleach, which I’m not too sure sugar has the power to conceal. Not that I can’t handle it, just kinda hoped I wouldn’t have to handle it. It’s better than choking on the pills though.

          I hate being all negative though, so I’ll just say that I’m really impressed by the sheer amount of options that exist for people who can’t swallow pills. When I developed my throat issues I didn’t even have to stop any meds, just got switched over to smaller or dissolvable options. I thought I was just fucked at that point, but it turns out it was a pretty easy transition.