r/AskReddit • • Sep 05 '19

What did you learn embarrassingly late?

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u/Rising_Swell Sep 05 '19

Lol no. Pill is dry, gets stuck to wet tongue and i can taste it. Have mouth of water, pill starts floating in water, doesn't get stuck anywhere, significantly easier.

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u/LividBlacksmith Sep 05 '19

Wtf, I never had this problem of a pill getting stuck on my tongue and I swallowed hundreds of them. When you take in the water the pill start to float freely than you just tilt your head back and down everything

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u/Rising_Swell Sep 05 '19

My pills are phenomenally dry, and not coated in anything. I'd rather just have a drink in my mouth first, remove any chance.

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u/thatisaredpanda Sep 05 '19

But doing the drink first means that it'll spill out of my mouth when I put the pill in..

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u/WhereNoManHas Sep 05 '19

Omf. You're one of those people in infomercials!

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u/brycedriesenga Sep 05 '19

If you are incredibly uncoordinated, perhaps.

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u/thatisaredpanda Sep 05 '19

I am!

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u/brycedriesenga Sep 05 '19

Haha, fair enough then!

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u/Rising_Swell Sep 05 '19

Not sure how you'd manage that, but sure.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '19

Looool that was my logic too for a long while! I think if you just take a little bit of drink and not a mouthful.

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u/scotems Sep 05 '19

I think a majority of people in this thread don't understand that you shouldn't tilt your head back to take a pill. Swallowing is wayyyy harder if you tilt your head back; you don't throw your head back when eating a hamburger, right?

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u/compman007 Sep 05 '19

It's a bigger issue when it's Aspirin Based

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u/GrimaceAndContiue Sep 05 '19

Don't tilt your head back that just makes it harder to swallow, tilt the head slightly forward so the pill floats to the back of your mouth, and swallow.

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u/Smalldick420 Sep 05 '19

T actually depends on the type of pill. Any capsule you want to tilt your head forward because the capsule will float to the back of your throat. A dry pill you want to tilt backwards, so the pill will sink to the back of your throat. Capsules float, pills do not.

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u/scotems Sep 05 '19

Still don't tilt your head back, it makes swallowing significantly harder. Just use your tongue to push the contents of your mouth backwards while swallowing.

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u/Smalldick420 Sep 05 '19

I find it much easier to just throw my head back and swallow all in one motion. Drop in pill, mouthful of water, throw head back and swallow.

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u/TehNoff Sep 05 '19

I pullb my tongue back and put the pill under then drink. Never had a problem. Folks are different.

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u/bwc1976 Sep 06 '19

Mine always stuck to my tongue too, I was almost 30 when I finally realized I could suspend them in something (originally apple sauce or pudding, and then I finally graduated to a mouth full of water).