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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

LPT: Fill your mouth with water, hold your head back and open mouth. drop the pill in. close mouth and swallow the water.

you wont even feel the pill.

by throwing the pill into the water already in your mouth instead of putting itin your mouth and then drinking the water, the pill wont have a chance to stick to your tongue or gums and release its bitter/nasty taste.

[–] dream_weasel 1 points 2 weeks ago

Put pill in mouth, swallow pill. People hate this one weird trick!

I don't like to do it, but sometimes I gotta take a pill and have no beverage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah! This is it. The amount of people who just put the pill in their mouth and THEN drink water surprises me. Every time I've done that with a specific type of pill, it would leave some extremely bitter powder on my tongue! Easily avoidable by putting water in first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I misheard my mom and started putting them under my tongue as a kid then using the water to swish it down. Works relatively well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like putting the pills in your mouth first works a bit better when you have a bunch of pills to take. I take four pills every morning (ADHD, antidepressant, allergy pill, and L-methylfolate because of dumb genes) and I've tried both ways. The pills-first approach is just faster and easier for me, and I don't mind the taste. Hell, I weirdly like the taste of my ADHD meds 😅 I will absolutely do the water first thing when taking something disgusting though. I tend to close my mouth and tilt my head forward rather than back, however.

I don't know why my client posted this comment 4 times... Sorry about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lol. I hear ya, but I have taken like 6 pills at once using the water first method. That's fair, to each their own!