My throat is shrinking

[mtbc]

As a teenager I could easily swallow the usual kinds of pills. I don't know what changed but now the disk-shaped pills are liable to get stuck in my throat on the way down: I much prefer the lozenge-shaped ones that have only one large dimension instead of two though it would be nice if it were easier to tell in advance before buying. Perhaps chopping a pill in half does not greatly change its dissolution rate: its absorption profile may be similar if the length of the smallest dimension remains unchanged. Let's hope so.

Comments

[fanf]

When we lived in Cameroon when I was a child, we had to take these incredibly bitter antimalarial pills each day. My sister and I avoided the nasty taste by taking a mouthful of water, then dropping in the pill before swallowing. I still take pills that way :-)

[mtbc]

Thank you for this tip, initial impressions are that it works well to swallow a pill as part of a larger body of liquid being swallowed.

[aldabra]

Some pills don't work if you cut them in half, because they have a coating to delay release.

[mtbc]

Gah, and it's not as if the pharmacist typically offers a useful range of alternatives if the drug's on prescription.