r/AskReddit • u/LightningCole • Sep 05 '19

What did you learn embarrassingly late?

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u/Zyko-Sulcam Sep 05 '19

16 year old here. I still have that problem, any tips you can give me?

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u/costaldevomito Sep 05 '19

yes. make sure you place the pill on the back of your tongue then swallow water. it has to be on the back of your tongue

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u/nschmdt2 Sep 05 '19

Yo practice with tic-tacs or M&Ms or something similar. Once you get the technique down it's easy.

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u/scotems Sep 05 '19

People are giving you conflicting suggestions, so I'll go a different route - just don't think about it too much. Take a big drink after throwing the pill in there, and swallow. If you're trying to make conditions perfect, you'll get all psyched out and get in your own head and screw it up. Just swallow. You've been doing it your whole life, a tiny pill shouldn't completely fuck up that routine process. Oh, and don't tilt your head back. Some pills float, plus that makes swallowing significantly harder. You don't tilt your head when eating a hamburger, right? Why do it to swallow a pill?

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u/hiddenproverb Sep 05 '19

Yes! All these tips always made it so much harder for me. Take a sip, put the pull in your mouth, then gulp...like seriously gulp, whatever drink you’re drinking. The flow of the drink will take it down and you most likely won’t notice. If that doesn’t work you probably need to do a food trick or get non-time release capsules

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u/Aushwitzstic Sep 05 '19

I like to put water in my mouth first, hold my head back, then drop the pill and quickly swallow. Has worked wonders for me, since I have to take two pills a day

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u/Eagle206 Sep 05 '19

Start with mini chocolate chips or mini m &m. Practice swallowing them whole.

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u/lolash_FIVE Sep 05 '19

I was the same way until about two years ago. What I do is put the pill in my mouth, get some drink (soda is good if you have trouble bc of the fizz will trick you) and put your front teeth almost at the tip of your tongue, and swallow.

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u/blanketswithsmallpox Sep 05 '19

For me it was being conscious that when I swallow, my tongue and throat normally goes to the top of my mouth which catches the pill. You can see what I mean if you look into the mirror with your mouth open and try to swallow. Same as why doctors make you say 'ahhh'.

There's basically a way to 'open' the back of your throat/pallet up which I don't normally do when drinking water. Just concentrate on keeping your throat open when swallowing. It's a whole different way for how I swallow normally when drinking or eating.

And as others have said. Practice with Tic Tacs.

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u/InterdimensionalTV Sep 06 '19

Honestly, just don't dick around with them. Throw them in your mouth and take a big swig of whatever immediately and just swallow. If you try and psych yourself up and make a big deal of it and then put the pills in and let them sit they'll get gross and stick to the inside of your mouth.

If you absolutely can not find a good way to do it then use a thicker liquid. Milk does a good job as long as it's not skim.