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)
sunnyray812 42
Maybe they were too large to swallow. If so, she could break them up to make it easier.
dafuqbro24 7
So she doesn't swallow?
IxEaTxZoMBieZ 7
"beat" me to it.
smokecloud_ 37
These made me giggle. xD Sorry 40 I accidently thumbed you down instead of up. :'(
outoftown 27
Call the pharmacist about alternatives. Inability/unwillingness to swallow pills is a common problem. But don't crush or cut pills without pharmacist's OK; some metabolize wrong.
Quiet_one 22
Your wife sounds a lot like my pets. If she needed a topical medication would you have to wrap her in a towel and put it on her by force?
DarwinWillFixIt 11
You should have taught her to swallow before you married her. :-)
Andrew4263 12
gonads
acisking 1
I'll be honest, I have a pretty bad and irrational fear of taking pills, I'd rather be sick than take one, unless I could find another way to get the medication:/ It's an extremely annoying fear, but I have no idea how you get over something like that, I guess try to be as understanding as you can, and if hiding them is working, then at least she's getting her medicine:)
ksks1234 33
Are they hidden in a piece of cheese or a hotdog? Seriously though, depending on the antibiotic, she can get it in liquid form. Then, you can hide it in her juice.
cuddlyunicorn 17
I couldn't start swallowing pills until a couple months ago and I'm 17. I have a fear of choking so I guess If she has a similar fear I guess you kinda can't blame her.
cchuckcloninger 5
Get over it. What are you going to do when you have something serious and have to take meds like a grownup?
cuddlyunicorn 17
I did get over my fear for the most part with the help of my friends and family. And yeah, I know but hopefully I will be healthy as an adult. As of now I don't have any health issues.
smokecloud_ 37
61, there are much crazier and ridiculous irrational fears than pill swallowing. Take me, driving over bridges freaks me out, and I have to commute from Cincinnati over the Ohio River into Kentucky everyday for work. Take a chill pill. /endpun
ilovefall10 21
I used to be like your wife. I didn't start taking pills until I was about 16. I've always had the fear of choking, but I learned that eventually, we all have to take pills, and can't just only use children's liquid medicine. Now that I know how to take pills, life is easier. Maybe you could teach your wife to take pills from starting small, like maybe make her swallow a tic-tac, or some kind of candy small like that, and then she can work up to taking pills. However, I do think some pills are WAY too big.
Sports_guy3 28
Like the oversized ones you see on TV. Example: Spongebob [SquarePants].
katertott 44
I agree. Some pills are just ridiculous in size. When I was about 7, I was prescribed an allergy tablet that was 3x the size of a regular one. Much too big for any kid at that age.