My husband cannot swallow pills. And by cannot, I mean I have to force open his mouth with those duck bill looking gynecological tools and shove the pills down his throat. Most of the time it doesn’t matter – any pill he takes either has a dissolvable form or is small enough that he can pretend he isn’t taking a pill at all. But we’ve started taking vitamins of late, and we all know they can’t seem to find a way to make vitamins human sized. I’m sure it is a big joke to the vitamin conglomerate to feed the public pills large enough for a horse – the gagged up pills alone are worth a fortune in replacements.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Spit or swallow?
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This must be a Greek thing. I have trouble too (I am Greek) but my wife just pops them in her mouth and is done with it. After 40 years in the US I have gotten much better at it but I still have to place the pill (one at at at time, quite carefully and strategically) near the back of my tongue and concentrate to get the job done. I know it's silly but what can I say?
Additionally, I think Greek men make for bad patients all the way around, but of course, we are so charming and adorable that it hardly matters to the women in our lives as they find us all that much more irresistible. I am sure your husband can corroborate my hypothesis. ;-)
There's nothing like saying "Do it!" to get it done!
My Greek wife has the same problem. Whereas I can down the pills effortlessly, she really has trouble. I've explained the easy technique.
- Pop Pill on tongue (mid section)
- Drink a bit of water.
- Tilt head back VERY FAST and let gravity do it's thing while swallowing.
Works every time... But, of course, my wife says I look like an epileptic when I do that, but then again, I never have a problem getting those Viagras down the hatch.
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