We don't have a thread for IRL raves? Boo. Well I'm starting one.


Anyway, I finally swallowed down this 1 inch by 3/8ths of an inch pill, on the second doze of day six.

For all of you who have never had problems swallowing pills, don't try to say "psh you suck, blah blah", you haven't a clue what you're talking about, no really, you don't, don't try and relate.

For all of you who do have problems, you have to train yourself. And honestly lets face it, you can't go around swallowing advil every hour to try and train yourself.

There is hope though!


I'm just so happy, it's like transing healing all over again.

While you can't swallow advil every hour to train yourself-- couldn't you swallow sugar pills every hour to do so?

Just have a little less sugar in later meals.

(Though that was in comment on the second part of the post-- the pill mentioned at the beginning does sound like a bit of a behemoth.)

There's a trick to swallowing anything whole.

Put pill on tongue. Take medium mouthful of water. Swish water and pill together into one cheek. Return water and pill to center of mouth. Swallow water.

...is there any OTHER way to do it?

A lot of people have mentioned tricks to me, and I tried them all, in the end I just needed to familiarize myself with my own throat/mouth/tongue. There is a different way of swallowing water and solids though, at least for me, so the 'take it with water' doesn't work at all for me. (Though I swallow some after it's down to help it feel less BIG in my esophagus.)

The 'trick' for me wasn't really a trick at all, just getting it to just the right place, overcoming the natural gag reflex, and swallowing at the key moment when it was half-in-half out.)

Edit:If you mean other like...in a liquid form? No, this meditation is not as effective as it needs to be when it's not solid. I'd have to drink like a gallon or two of it a week. It's also a combination meditation, since your kidneys filter it out, it's combined with something the kidneys take out -before- they take this out, so it will stay in your system long enough to do it's job, considering it’s combined with some form of acid, I’m not sure if it could be injected… I wouldn’t want to inject myself at home, 28 times in 2 weeks even if could be administered that way. I'm obviously not a doctor, so I don't know the specifics though, just what I've read.

I remember swallowing my first pill. Something for a raging headache I had. I hardly had any idea how to do it, so I ended up swallowing water 6 times. And then I just nudged the pill to the back of my mouth and swallowed, praying that the water would whoosh it away.

It seems like a fairly creepy thing to do. I had these visions in the back of my mind about feeling the pill as it went down my throat. Yuck.

I just finished Twilight Princess the other day, and I take my driver's test on the 18th.

I had a terrible time swallowing even the tiniest pills. Parents would make fun of me saying I can swallow half a sandwich whole, but not a pill smaller then an M&M. I'd even stuff the pill into food (which does make it a lot easier) and without trying to, swallow all the food... but the pill. I also practiced with M&Ms, but they were too tasty to swallow whole, and I'd just eat them. Mmm. I've finally gotten good at it, thankfully...

I detest pills. Anything that isn't a headache pill,or an antibiotic

Good luck, Twilight!

Do I have permission to derail this thread?

As long as you rave about derailing it afterwards

Yes... put pill in mouth, swallow. No water needed (though it's a little more difficult this way).

Alternatively, drop pill in mouth, take a sip of water, and the pill goes right down with it.

Of course, I can take a whole handful of pills at once, so maybe I'm not the best example for this discussion. Heh.

From what I've learned of dysphagia, one way to encourage swallowing is the have eaten something cool before. Like some jello or ice cream. It moistens the throat, and preps it for being swallowed. So have like a small serving of ice cream before taking your pill. It should help.

When I was still on medication I'd learned to dry-swallow. I've lost the trick of it.

But my summer school is over! YA!

There is one other way.

My rave: I still have the perverted mind of a teenager that allows me to laugh at this thread with things like 'getting to know my own mouth/throat/tongue' and 'there's a trick to swallowing' and general swallowing stuff.

Another rave: Talking to Verithrax on IRC had me chuckly almost constantly. >_< He's cool.

Yes, he's pretty cool normally.

As for pills, I took Ritalin thrice daily for over a decade. At this point, I can swallow anything smaller than my throat in one go without water. This is a bitch when you accidentally swallow hard candies almost equal in size to your esophagus, and feel them SLOWLY being pushed down your throat. It feels almost like having a brushburn on the inside.

My rave:
Had a wonderful dream about my ex who I'm still madly in love with discovering that my tongue is pierced in a very enjoyable manner.

Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday, dear meee-eeee!
Happy birthday to me!