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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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!