Today, like every day since my wife was prescribed antibiotics for an infection, I had to hide one of the pills inside her food, because she'd apparently rather fall seriously ill than swallow them like an adult. FML
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Today, just like everyday, I opened my med box, took out a blister pack and took one of the pills before putting the pack back in the box. Today, not like everyday, I had diarrhea. Turns out one of the packs was laxatives put in my med box by my boyfriend because they looked the same as my meds. FML
Today, my daughter wanted to show me the tooth she had just lost. As I was in a rush to leave for work, I quickly picked up and swallowed my pill that was on the kitchen table. It was only until I looked back down at the table did I see not only my pill, but one extremely angry daughter glaring at me. FML
Today, my girlfriend came back from visiting her family. She'd forgotten to take her pills, and decided to "catch up" by taking almost a week's worth of birth control and prescription pills. She's fine, but I had to convince the ER staff that she's not suicidal, just stupid. FML
Today, I puked up an anti-nausea pill. FML
Today, my wife called me at work, crying, because she shat her pants. I'd feel more sympathy if she ever ate fruit, or vegetables, or anything other than sugar and carbs, or took the prescription fiber supplements her doctor prescribed. FML
Today, my daughter has an ear infection and hasn’t slept more than 15 minutes a night for the last three days. Well tonight she was finally asleep, but I needed to take my own tablets. I had a violent coughing fit while choking on them, and woke her up. FML
Today, I found out that when they put "Take with food" on the side of antibiotics, what they really mean is "Take with food because this stuff is gonna liquefy everything in your G.I. tract, and make you have to run out of the middle of calculus for the worst diarrhea ever." FML
Today, when I picked up my repeat subscription of anti-anxiety medication, they had changed the packaging to be more 'child safe'. Now it's so hard to get the pills out that I had an anxiety attack trying to take one. FML
Today, I forgot to bring my lunch to work. I got so hungry, I resorted to eating antacid tablets from the medicine cabinet for lunch. FML
Today, in preparation for a presentation at work, I decided to take a handful of vitamins to fight my cold. As I was putting the bottles away, I noticed one of them was a laxative. FML
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thatonegirlnic 10
You would think with all our technology they would make all pills in gummy form by now. Problem solved
FindingYujin 26
Well, I hope she isn't taking them at a different time and overdosing. If not, that's kind of childish (if she dislikes swallowing pills) unless she doesn't believe in medicine and whatnot.
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Comments (120)
Rainhawk94 27
Keep it up, what she doesn't know won't hurt her, it'll actually help her
MateRicks 18
Isn't that like the motto of the NSA?
TheImaginarySong 16
I have to give you points for still finding a way to get her that medicine OP. Honestly I would've just given up.
joea21 21
You pat her head after too and say good girl?
tj4234 36
is there any way she can get them as a suspension? Or something along that lines? I used to have a terrible problem swallowing tablets so I used to put them inside a bar of chocolate to eat. Worked well.
amberv61 22
I would always ask if they came in capsules so I could open them and eat it with apple sauce
Ali_Br_fml 33
Many antibiotics do in fact come in suspension form, some even at strengths that are the same as those prescribed for adults, and if not, the doctors can do calculations to determine how to make it contain the quantity they want. That helps people with severe gag reflexes...but if the taste is the problem, it would linger longer if she had to swallow the liquid than the tablet/capsule. I prefer tablets to liquid, because of taste issue...but I only had to take antibiotics once, and (unless it's an antibiotic, or to treat some sickness or allergies) I don't take medicine, I try to just tough it out. Maybe she fears the side effects (though the taste and side effects aren't as bad as what they cure).
fartay55 11
At least she's taking them, doesn't matter how imo
PennyLane27 32
I can't swallow pills, either. Small esophagus. Have her ask her pharmacist if she can chew them, or get liquid (which insurance isn't as fond of). SOME antibiotics are okay to chew.. as are some other pills. (Again, that's why it's important to talk to a pharmacist... some pills are timed/delayed by entric coating and the chemicals in the pill can actually react in adverse ways with stomach acid). Btw...Chewing them tastes horrible, but it's better than not taking them at all. You get used to it.
spluver0005 17
I empathize if they're the gigantic pills because I'm HORRIBLE at swallowing pills. But maybe cut then in half? That's what I've done
schadenfreud 6
its fairly typical for females to dislike swallowing
smokecloud_ 37
Not really. Must just be you. ;)
rinoa_fml 10
And now she'll go around saying "Those doctors don't know what they're talking about. They told me I needed these pills and I didn't take any of them and I'm just fine," and her idiot friends will believe her.
JMichael 26
My dad is like that. He'd rather stay home and get seriously sick than go to a hospital.