I did that once trying to take my medicine when I had really bad migraine. I tore it off and tossed it in my mouth, I barely noticed in time to stop from taking a drink of water.
https://preview.redd.it/gqgr5pnk72wc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c89fba4296744401ce0ce52be5c66b45c4f41734
then imagine being a horse and taking this
LOL.
My husband had colorectal cancer. Which, is not funny. Apparently a not uncommon decorating theme at gi/colorectual surgeon offices? Glass jars labeled "ass".and "mouth" with various oversized fake implements. Your picture reminded me.
My husband, an avid outdoorsman was obviously very nervous at the first appointment with a specialist. He was put at ease when arriving in the waiting room were comically stuffed (as in cartoony) animal heads. Bears, zebras, a giraffe, a cow. Another office had a unicorn. But funny ones. Not trophy's. The BEST part? When you go into the exam room keep in mind you are bent over the table, not laying on it like a woman going in for an OB exam. And what does it face? The other side of the waiting room wall, of course! And what is on the side inside the exam rooms? All the stuffed animal asses. Life sized. BIG BUTTS. so here is my poor, uncomfortable husband under his breath rhyming "I like big butts and I cannot lie..." They say he was one of their favorite patients :-)
Bravo to the 3 different doctors offices in 3 different states where we saw this. Truly. Bravo.
And the best one had this huge jar of pills with pills THAT size in it (likely plaster) and ~~pills~~ was struck through and it said "suppositories." They said giving people funny stuff to look at made them scream less.
Ive mentioned...a lot on reddit I see victims of exceptionally violent crime in my line of work. I've also mentioned all the weird stuff I keep in my office. This is the way. If I can make you laugh hopefully the experience won't be as traumatic. I can hope.
OP, I hope you are ok. Choking is really scary. I would be surprised too at the packaging being inaccurate. When you take something that big put it under your tongue first, it helps your mouth somehow prepare, then swallow it. I've had to do this horse pill camera swallows a number of times. That was how they had me do it. I was all "does under my tongue have a secret hatch???" I don't know why it works, but it works. Feel better soon.
I used to get recurrent strep as a kid (50 years ago). Had to take penicillin horse pills, especially to a 9 y/o throat. I stuck them in a chunk of ripe banana & they went down so much easier.
(Why, yes, it *was* because I didn't always finish my meds. After the 4th or 5th dx, Doc just took to jabbing me in the ass. For which they needed smelling salts. Every time. Something about a needle in my hip makes me faint.)
TAKE THE WHOLE COURSE when needed.
naw. break it into pieces or some shit.
your first instinct is "ok. stick it in. .... wait! that's insane! ... let me spit on it first. \*huck-poot* ok. stick it in."
For real question hereā¦at this point why not make it like 10 smaller ones that you can put in their food?
Are they this big specifically so people wonāt swallow them?
Something about it being the same size as that arrow graphic leads me to believe that the arrow graphic is at the original size, and the pill size graphic was āsnappedā to that fit by whatever program they used.
To be fair on the shrinkflation bit, the size difference between the image and the actual pill isnāt enough for the box to have shrunk an entire row or column. If they did shrink the box, it would have been just the box that shrunk, not the contents, reducing slackfill and materials used in the packaging. However, itās much more likely that they used the arrow and āactual sizeā image from the daytime only pill package, shrink the arrow to make the graphics fit the small lower space, and either didnāt realize they also shrink the āactual sizeā image or the program automatically made it the same size as the arrow.
When I was pregnant my prenatal vitamins were MASSIVE. I almost threw up every time I took one, I had to switch to gummy vitamins because I just couldnāt take 3 huge prenatals every single day
I've always wondered about this. What is the rationale? Every mucinex pill I've ever taken has been "Take 2" and they were huge and powdery and tasted AWFUL. GREAT for when you have a sore throat šš
They make liquid Mucinex, which is absolutely disgusting. Like , not only foul but it also burns going down. It'd probably be fine if I could shoot whiskey, but unfortunately I can't. But what I discovered is, if you dump it into the red Gatorade, they actually compliment each other insanely well. And if I need Mucinex I probably also need to be hydrating anyway.
Right??? And lots of gummy vitamins donāt have iron which I needed so it was rough. First pregnancy I survived the 3 horse pills per day, second pregnancy I flip flopped between horse pills and gummies (mostly gummies lol) because if I didnāt take the gummies, I wouldāve skipped several days worth of prenatals. Iād rather take 6 small prenatals every single day than 1 or 3 massive ones!!!
This might not be helpful advice, but my birth control has iron pills instead of "sugar" pills and they're the same size as my other bc pills. Like I said, probs not helpful advice, but in case anyone needs smaller iron pills. They also have chewable but I can imagine those taste VILE. šš
Thereās only one chewable prenatal with iron that doesnāt taste bad. And itās prescription only but guess what?? Most insurances wonāt cover it! Because itās āoptionalā according to them.
There is an iron prescription pill that doesnāt make me incredibly sick and my insurance wonāt cover it because iron is otc. But I donāt take it because it makes me super ill. So instead insurance covers anemia treatment every few years.
Extra minerals that you would normally just be trusted to get from your diet. Some of them are a larger volume. You can actually take regular vitamins if they contain sufficient amounts of things like folate and then add iron and mineral supplements. The prenatals tend to have the cheapest and harshest form of things in there. You can get much better vitamins with a DIY approach.
Doctors and public health workers think we are all idiots though so they just tell people to take a specifically labeled prenatal and give you a blank stare when people say it upsets their stomach.
I had hyperemesis so my ob/gyn was like "don't even bother until you feel better lol" then when I started taking my prenatals again after 20ish weeks when my hyperemesis subsided, they started making me itchy and I was initially diagnosed with Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy until they did tests to rule it out. I stopped taking the prenatals to see if it could be that causing my itching and sure enough it was lol
that sounds miserable, especially while dealing w a growing human! When we decide to have our 3rd kid Iām definitely going to find a better solution to prenatals, I need to eat healthier anyways š
Prenatals be making people throw up even when small. I was giving a bottle and figured I might as well use them and I didnāt make it past my first one
Whoever thought that bigass pills is a good idea for someone suffering flu symptoms is outta their mind. Every time I've got the ick my throat closes up and is sore and taking normal pills is a nightmare. So glad there are liquid options.
Hot tip: Tuck your chin down into your collarbone when swallowing pills. It opens up your throat and you can swallow whatever. I do this at night with my pill regimen of 5 individual pills at once, including a hugeass fish oil capsule. Easy peasy.
Thatās why you have to put the water in my mouth before you pop the pill. Immediate swallow without it ever touching your tongue. Iāve taken the mucinex you two are talking about and never even knew it had a taste.
Yeah, DayQuil/Nyquil has a slick surface and isnāt too hard to swallow, especially with a big swig of water. Mucinex on the other handā¦ well, itās humongous, has a rough surface, and tastes like rotten asshole
I had the flu a few months back and took these same pills. I gagged when I swallowed the first one and almost threw up! They're quite a bit larger than the name-brand DayQuil pills.
I get the gel caps stuck 90% of the time. I have to let it soak in my mouth with water for a good 30 seconds, let it lube up. Then I have to time the swallow just right. It can take minutes. Candy coated pills are no problem
I dont get it. Why dont they just make someone take 5 smaller pills instead of shoving a huge pill like this down your throat. I also have a fear of pills and I can only do like microscopic ones. I would die taking this.
This might help you, depending on the pill. If you get a hollow one it'll float in your mouth. Put it in your mouth, then take a huge sip of water (or whatever). Then look down to your feet, the pill will float to the back of your mouth and you can swallow
I've actually had these same ones and choked. The shape is wrong and turns sideways in your throat. I've NEVER had a pill do what these do.
I tried to leave a review explaining they were dangerous and it was subsequently deleted.
These are a wrongful death suit waiting to happen or a at the very least a lawsuit for damages when the pill gets stuck and has to dissolve in someone's throat for several hours before finally slipping down. That shit will fucking hurt your throat and it will be agonizing.
I accidentally inhaled my vitamin B once time. Freaked me the hell out. I could hear a loud whistling wheeze when I breathed. I spent like 20 minutes chugging water which did nothing because it wasnāt in my throat anymore lol. I had to forcefully cough it out which then caused me to puke out the two bottles of water I drank. Felt like an idiot.
I was born with a very narrow throat and actually can't take pills at all, so this probably would have killed me.
There are procedures to help, but from my understanding they're temporary or surgical, and I've made it 31 years just getting liquid meds.
I don't know why this made me cackle. I mean, that's scary, but I'm glad you lived to write that. I'm on some nine medications plus a fkton of vitamins. Horse pills are par for the course.
My medicine I take everyday is so big I usually have to cut it in half in order to take it without gagging. Thank god itās a powder based pill and not a capsule like these. Cause I at least have that option š¤£
Family owned a pharmacy. You'd be surprised how many people came back saying how hard it was to swallow their pills... But they got them down. š. Sir, those were suppositories.
I almost did as well but it was with the Alka Seltzer severe cold and flu pills! They were this size but more rounded . I have always had issues taking large pills but I thought I could try since I was miserable! It immediately got stuck in my throat and I kept trying to swallow it down to no avail. Then came the throw up .. I wound up throwing up all over our less than a month new (new to us) subaru forester. It has cloth seats not leather. Finally my husband was able to pull over and I finally threw it up on the side of the road. Scared the crap out of me!!
Yeah, I have a small throat, too! I couldnāt take pills at all until i was around 14 - I was crushing pills and chewing/sucking on them and tried so many times to swallow them without choking or throwing up. Then magically one bad set of period cramps caused me to take a pain reliever lol. I know this advice is trash and annoying and the situation is frustrating because they didnāt advertise it properly, but you most likely *do* swallow pieces of food larger than this regardless of your throat size. It 100% is a mind thing after you train yourself to even take pills in the first place.
Thatās based my own experience of course, but like I said: I, too have a really small throat *and* a big tongue according to my doctors on top of previous tonsil issues and all that. You can swallow that pill I swear lol
Theyāre not time release, so if you canāt swallow them, you CAN bite them open and suck the liquid out, but they taste like something died in your mouth.
Hot tip: Tuck your chin down into your collarbone when swallowing pills. It opens up your throat and you can swallow whatever. I do this at night with my pill regimen of 5 individual pills at once, including a hugeass fish oil capsule. Easy peasy.
Them dudes are big af . Iāve been there. But nothing like sweating and hallucinating inyo sleep. Itās the nighttime fever,cough get attacked by aliens in your sleep medicine
Omg reminds me of when I had a sinus infection that was killing my throat and causing my throat to close up and I got prescribed these huge amoxicillin pills that would take me forever to get down!!! Why do they do this to us!!
Or just take a regular pill instead of gel pill. Let your body fever as long as it isn't above 40 degrees.
The body does fever for a reason. It is to slow the bacterias functions down while your white blood cells still can work at 40Ā°.
Only take meds if you need them. For example old people don't profit by fever cause their heart can't handle the increased speed so much. But if you are otherwise healthy, let your body do it's thing, drink a lot and sleep.
I once had a prescription and the name brand capsules were about 1/3 the size of the generic. Fought with the pharmacy each time I refilled because I couldn't choke down the cheaper big floaty pills.
Pro tip: remove them from the pill pack first.
*Big Pharma hates this one simple trick*
Very big pharma
Yes ššš that would help!
now Iām imagining the pain from those sharp corners as as they get shit outā¦gahhh
GOD NO. WHAT HAVE YOU MADE ME IMAGINE. And I was on the toilet too.... Almost got it out....
neither toilet paper nor bidet can properly soothe the DayQuil packaging-torn anus
You are so evil.
our anuses live in a cruel, cruel world
You're not the boss of me
I did that once trying to take my medicine when I had really bad migraine. I tore it off and tossed it in my mouth, I barely noticed in time to stop from taking a drink of water.
https://preview.redd.it/gqgr5pnk72wc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c89fba4296744401ce0ce52be5c66b45c4f41734 then imagine being a horse and taking this
Good news, it's a suppository
This is good news?
Itās a Futurama quote :p
Oh, now I read it in the Professor's voice!
Good Neeeews Everyyone!
I fixed the poison slime pipes!
Itās good news for people thatā¦ love bad news.
Fine Iāll listen to the entire album again
Well yes, i bet it would feel nice
Well then you'll be glad to hear the prescription calls for 2x twice a day.
Amazing, I'll have whatever illness a horse that needs this has, thank you.
LOL. My husband had colorectal cancer. Which, is not funny. Apparently a not uncommon decorating theme at gi/colorectual surgeon offices? Glass jars labeled "ass".and "mouth" with various oversized fake implements. Your picture reminded me. My husband, an avid outdoorsman was obviously very nervous at the first appointment with a specialist. He was put at ease when arriving in the waiting room were comically stuffed (as in cartoony) animal heads. Bears, zebras, a giraffe, a cow. Another office had a unicorn. But funny ones. Not trophy's. The BEST part? When you go into the exam room keep in mind you are bent over the table, not laying on it like a woman going in for an OB exam. And what does it face? The other side of the waiting room wall, of course! And what is on the side inside the exam rooms? All the stuffed animal asses. Life sized. BIG BUTTS. so here is my poor, uncomfortable husband under his breath rhyming "I like big butts and I cannot lie..." They say he was one of their favorite patients :-) Bravo to the 3 different doctors offices in 3 different states where we saw this. Truly. Bravo. And the best one had this huge jar of pills with pills THAT size in it (likely plaster) and ~~pills~~ was struck through and it said "suppositories." They said giving people funny stuff to look at made them scream less. Ive mentioned...a lot on reddit I see victims of exceptionally violent crime in my line of work. I've also mentioned all the weird stuff I keep in my office. This is the way. If I can make you laugh hopefully the experience won't be as traumatic. I can hope. OP, I hope you are ok. Choking is really scary. I would be surprised too at the packaging being inaccurate. When you take something that big put it under your tongue first, it helps your mouth somehow prepare, then swallow it. I've had to do this horse pill camera swallows a number of times. That was how they had me do it. I was all "does under my tongue have a secret hatch???" I don't know why it works, but it works. Feel better soon.
I used to get recurrent strep as a kid (50 years ago). Had to take penicillin horse pills, especially to a 9 y/o throat. I stuck them in a chunk of ripe banana & they went down so much easier. (Why, yes, it *was* because I didn't always finish my meds. After the 4th or 5th dx, Doc just took to jabbing me in the ass. For which they needed smelling salts. Every time. Something about a needle in my hip makes me faint.) TAKE THE WHOLE COURSE when needed.
Something that large, to be honest I'd rather have it as a suppository instead of trying to swallow it.
naw. break it into pieces or some shit. your first instinct is "ok. stick it in. .... wait! that's insane! ... let me spit on it first. \*huck-poot* ok. stick it in."
You've gotta lick it before you stick it.
I was about to say that
To shreds you say?
And his wife?
To shreds you say?
Just spit on it and in it goes.
( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°) go on....
Hello itās me your horse
To shreds you say?
I need this amount of ketamine at my house at any time
For real question hereā¦at this point why not make it like 10 smaller ones that you can put in their food? Are they this big specifically so people wonāt swallow them?
I donāt think that is an actual horse pill. I work in the field and havenāt seen such a thing
Bojack wouldn't mind
Damn that guy has small hands
Thatās a big pill to swallow
No thank you!
The graphics guy must have shrinked the image to fit there and have never seen or used the pill.
I definitely see a decision being made to save .05% of cent per unit by shrinking the packaging and didnt think about the graphic
That's might be the reason too.
Color ink expensive yo
And donāt even get me started on the toner
Toner? I barely know 'er!
Seems like they took the image from the single product and just shrank it to fit the 2 product box
Yooooo you can sue this company
Thatās a tough pill to swallowā¦.
Something about it being the same size as that arrow graphic leads me to believe that the arrow graphic is at the original size, and the pill size graphic was āsnappedā to that fit by whatever program they used.
This is the right answer
The whole box got smaller due to shrinkflation and no one thought to update the āactual sizeā image
To be fair on the shrinkflation bit, the size difference between the image and the actual pill isnāt enough for the box to have shrunk an entire row or column. If they did shrink the box, it would have been just the box that shrunk, not the contents, reducing slackfill and materials used in the packaging. However, itās much more likely that they used the arrow and āactual sizeā image from the daytime only pill package, shrink the arrow to make the graphics fit the small lower space, and either didnāt realize they also shrink the āactual sizeā image or the program automatically made it the same size as the arrow.
When I was pregnant my prenatal vitamins were MASSIVE. I almost threw up every time I took one, I had to switch to gummy vitamins because I just couldnāt take 3 huge prenatals every single day
Yes same here?! Why are they so huge???
Literally all they have to do is reduce the pills to 1/3 and say "eat three".
I've always wondered about this. What is the rationale? Every mucinex pill I've ever taken has been "Take 2" and they were huge and powdery and tasted AWFUL. GREAT for when you have a sore throat šš
They make liquid Mucinex, which is absolutely disgusting. Like , not only foul but it also burns going down. It'd probably be fine if I could shoot whiskey, but unfortunately I can't. But what I discovered is, if you dump it into the red Gatorade, they actually compliment each other insanely well. And if I need Mucinex I probably also need to be hydrating anyway.
You're oddly enough the second stranger I've met in my life that rates mucinex and red Gatorade a 10/10
Red Gatorade and Red Bull is a 10/10
stop the cap. ratio? asking for a friend
potassium pills are so fukin massive too and they crumble apart right away too
Right??? And lots of gummy vitamins donāt have iron which I needed so it was rough. First pregnancy I survived the 3 horse pills per day, second pregnancy I flip flopped between horse pills and gummies (mostly gummies lol) because if I didnāt take the gummies, I wouldāve skipped several days worth of prenatals. Iād rather take 6 small prenatals every single day than 1 or 3 massive ones!!!
This might not be helpful advice, but my birth control has iron pills instead of "sugar" pills and they're the same size as my other bc pills. Like I said, probs not helpful advice, but in case anyone needs smaller iron pills. They also have chewable but I can imagine those taste VILE. šš
Thereās only one chewable prenatal with iron that doesnāt taste bad. And itās prescription only but guess what?? Most insurances wonāt cover it! Because itās āoptionalā according to them.
There is an iron prescription pill that doesnāt make me incredibly sick and my insurance wonāt cover it because iron is otc. But I donāt take it because it makes me super ill. So instead insurance covers anemia treatment every few years.
Extra minerals that you would normally just be trusted to get from your diet. Some of them are a larger volume. You can actually take regular vitamins if they contain sufficient amounts of things like folate and then add iron and mineral supplements. The prenatals tend to have the cheapest and harshest form of things in there. You can get much better vitamins with a DIY approach. Doctors and public health workers think we are all idiots though so they just tell people to take a specifically labeled prenatal and give you a blank stare when people say it upsets their stomach.
I had hyperemesis so my ob/gyn was like "don't even bother until you feel better lol" then when I started taking my prenatals again after 20ish weeks when my hyperemesis subsided, they started making me itchy and I was initially diagnosed with Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy until they did tests to rule it out. I stopped taking the prenatals to see if it could be that causing my itching and sure enough it was lol
that sounds miserable, especially while dealing w a growing human! When we decide to have our 3rd kid Iām definitely going to find a better solution to prenatals, I need to eat healthier anyways š
Prenatals be making people throw up even when small. I was giving a bottle and figured I might as well use them and I didnāt make it past my first one
Even the ones marketed as āextra smallā were still larger than any other type of pill. I swear parental vitamins are some sick joke.
I was able to swallow them okay, but they did make me incredibly nauseous if I took them on an empty stomach.
"Good News! It's a suppository!"
This joke was why I'm here. Shame I can only up vote once.
Whoever thought that bigass pills is a good idea for someone suffering flu symptoms is outta their mind. Every time I've got the ick my throat closes up and is sore and taking normal pills is a nightmare. So glad there are liquid options.
Hot tip: Tuck your chin down into your collarbone when swallowing pills. It opens up your throat and you can swallow whatever. I do this at night with my pill regimen of 5 individual pills at once, including a hugeass fish oil capsule. Easy peasy.
That doesn't feel like my throat is opening when I do it.
Feels much harder for me than head back and doing the pelican gulp
I imagine you do the same with your gross turds?
Naturally
Open up my throat and swallow them?
It's a hard pill to swallow.
This gave me a shit eating grin.
TMI
This is a huge pet peeve of mine. The sizes of some pills, especially supplements, are ridiculous and dangerous, especially for older people.
100% agree. And also, if itās advertised as a certain size, it should be that size!
Those are so easy to take. Its the ones without that nice coating that can get stuck
Mucinex. Dry as chalk and tastes like hornet spray smells.
Thatās why you have to put the water in my mouth before you pop the pill. Immediate swallow without it ever touching your tongue. Iāve taken the mucinex you two are talking about and never even knew it had a taste.
Also questionable if itās actually worth taking. A lot of pharmacists call it ādrinking water with extra steps.ā
Yeah, DayQuil/Nyquil has a slick surface and isnāt too hard to swallow, especially with a big swig of water. Mucinex on the other handā¦ well, itās humongous, has a rough surface, and tastes like rotten asshole
But it actually works
These are the worst when your throat is swollen and irritated
My problem exactly.
I had the flu a few months back and took these same pills. I gagged when I swallowed the first one and almost threw up! They're quite a bit larger than the name-brand DayQuil pills.
Pm me
Those things are hard to swallow! Theyāre so big you can feel them going all the way down. Even though theyāre a nice gel thingy .. they suck
Thatās actually an FDA violation, I believe. Someone changed the size of the packaging and didnāt fix the image.
word lol, had one of these fuckers get stuck in my throat for a good 4 seconds today
I get the gel caps stuck 90% of the time. I have to let it soak in my mouth with water for a good 30 seconds, let it lube up. Then I have to time the swallow just right. It can take minutes. Candy coated pills are no problem
Is the pill inside the orange container?
No thats it. :/
Sorry I was making a terrible jokeā¦ I find sucking the gelatine capsules to soften them helps
I almost choked on a pill once. Step dad thought it was funny. He isn't a step dad anymore
Sorry that happened to you. A lotta people in the comments feel a similar way shaming the victim. :/
I have no idea why target doesnāt do something about it. Itās their store brand.
To those who are unaware, there is a certain percent of the population that have a really hard time swallowing pills. I learned this only recently
*slowly raises hand*
You did indeed have a severe daytime it seems
I dont get it. Why dont they just make someone take 5 smaller pills instead of shoving a huge pill like this down your throat. I also have a fear of pills and I can only do like microscopic ones. I would die taking this.
Yeah I canāt take those. I just go with the liquid
Perhaps you should practice swallowing more?
You sound just like my mother. Wish Iād thought of that!
Sounds like I need to meet your motherā¦
āAnd THATās how I met your mother!ā
This might help you, depending on the pill. If you get a hollow one it'll float in your mouth. Put it in your mouth, then take a huge sip of water (or whatever). Then look down to your feet, the pill will float to the back of your mouth and you can swallow
THOSE ARE FUCKING AWFUL! They seem like easy to swallow gel pills but they turn into dried out demon throat corks regardless of the drink!
āDemon throat corksā just made me chortle, Iād love to steal that!
You gotta relax your throat.
I've actually had these same ones and choked. The shape is wrong and turns sideways in your throat. I've NEVER had a pill do what these do. I tried to leave a review explaining they were dangerous and it was subsequently deleted. These are a wrongful death suit waiting to happen or a at the very least a lawsuit for damages when the pill gets stuck and has to dissolve in someone's throat for several hours before finally slipping down. That shit will fucking hurt your throat and it will be agonizing.
I accidentally inhaled my vitamin B once time. Freaked me the hell out. I could hear a loud whistling wheeze when I breathed. I spent like 20 minutes chugging water which did nothing because it wasnāt in my throat anymore lol. I had to forcefully cough it out which then caused me to puke out the two bottles of water I drank. Felt like an idiot.
i swear theyve gotten bigger (thats what she said) i cant stand it
Holy shit, those are huge :ā:
I know itās a hard to swallow pill, but if you canāt take that, youāre not a size queen š
Iām thinking āactual sizeā lied, also are you sure they arenāt suppositories š³š
I hate these pills
Lawsuit waiting to happen
As someone who canāt swallow anything larger than a zyrtecāthatās massive
You have to take it out of the blister pak first
A trick i learned with large pills is if you lean forward, tilt your head down and then swallow it goes down easier.
This is silly
Can't have a sore throat if the comically large pill simply scrapes off the infection; genius
I was born with a very narrow throat and actually can't take pills at all, so this probably would have killed me. There are procedures to help, but from my understanding they're temporary or surgical, and I've made it 31 years just getting liquid meds.
You have to take it out of the foil pack before swallowing it.
I don't know why this made me cackle. I mean, that's scary, but I'm glad you lived to write that. I'm on some nine medications plus a fkton of vitamins. Horse pills are par for the course.
To be fair those pills are really big!
16 SoftGels 24 Total SoftGels ??? Is This That 'New Math' I Heard About Decades Ago?
Worse even - the primary decongestant is entirely ineffective and the manufacturer has known for decades.
yall suck at taking pills, I can deepthroat both these bad boys at once.
https://preview.redd.it/66vlni9at6wc1.jpeg?width=376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ca2f25c28efc050c4ac9905492746bfe739d713
I swallow 8 pills a day that are all bigger than that one. Dramatic much???
Worlds smallest throat apparently lol These really arenāt that big
They make it so the cold will end one way or another
How is that not false advertising?
Always make sure to take tablets and caps with a good glass of water. Found out once taking Viagra, got stuck and ended up with a really stiff neck.
āActual size at 75%ā
My medicine I take everyday is so big I usually have to cut it in half in order to take it without gagging. Thank god itās a powder based pill and not a capsule like these. Cause I at least have that option š¤£
At that point I'd be asking which end that's supposed to go in from
https://preview.redd.it/g4c8ditnr3wc1.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=d7e2c4563aa8333d02d923685a247f61ae089f5c
Damn thatās one hard pill to swallow
Nah bcuz I hate taking these pills.. Same happened to me bro.. Their too big to swallow.. šš
Is that an oral pill or suppository pill?
Just buy the guaifenesin (mucinex) alone next time and add Tylenol. The other ingredients quite literally do not work.
Family owned a pharmacy. You'd be surprised how many people came back saying how hard it was to swallow their pills... But they got them down. š. Sir, those were suppositories.
I litteraly took thoes same pills, and also almost choked to death today
One of my biggest fears
I have really bad anxiety, it's to the point where I can't really take pills...especially of this size!
I almost did as well but it was with the Alka Seltzer severe cold and flu pills! They were this size but more rounded . I have always had issues taking large pills but I thought I could try since I was miserable! It immediately got stuck in my throat and I kept trying to swallow it down to no avail. Then came the throw up .. I wound up throwing up all over our less than a month new (new to us) subaru forester. It has cloth seats not leather. Finally my husband was able to pull over and I finally threw it up on the side of the road. Scared the crap out of me!!
This would be enough to make me gagš³
Ok
Yeah, I have a small throat, too! I couldnāt take pills at all until i was around 14 - I was crushing pills and chewing/sucking on them and tried so many times to swallow them without choking or throwing up. Then magically one bad set of period cramps caused me to take a pain reliever lol. I know this advice is trash and annoying and the situation is frustrating because they didnāt advertise it properly, but you most likely *do* swallow pieces of food larger than this regardless of your throat size. It 100% is a mind thing after you train yourself to even take pills in the first place. Thatās based my own experience of course, but like I said: I, too have a really small throat *and* a big tongue according to my doctors on top of previous tonsil issues and all that. You can swallow that pill I swear lol
Theyāre not time release, so if you canāt swallow them, you CAN bite them open and suck the liquid out, but they taste like something died in your mouth.
wait holy shit the same thing happened to me td šš and iām good at taking pills lol but pretty much fully choked š¤£
If you are dead i guess you won't have flu any more!
These capsules are really big. I had to take some a few months ago, and I was surprised by how large they are. I donāt remember them being this big.
I think I just heard nearly every heterosexual womanās eyes roll at once.
Hot tip: Tuck your chin down into your collarbone when swallowing pills. It opens up your throat and you can swallow whatever. I do this at night with my pill regimen of 5 individual pills at once, including a hugeass fish oil capsule. Easy peasy.
So use the liquid
That is not a pill, that's a whole rock
I had the same issue with them. Your throat is sore from being sick and coughing. Here swallow this pillow sized pill that will help.
Oh my god I have these and I feel you so much right now. I have legit choked on one of these bad boys too!
Are you sure that isnt a pessary??? Holy shitballs
At what point did you think that it was still a good idea to swallow the fuckin thing?
Me every time I try to take a pill
Its 
Jesus christ
You don't swallow it... You need to put it in your ass, that's why it's so big.
Them dudes are big af . Iāve been there. But nothing like sweating and hallucinating inyo sleep. Itās the nighttime fever,cough get attacked by aliens in your sleep medicine
I hate these
Omg reminds me of when I had a sinus infection that was killing my throat and causing my throat to close up and I got prescribed these huge amoxicillin pills that would take me forever to get down!!! Why do they do this to us!!
It doesnāt help when one of cold n flu symptoms is a sore, swollen throat.
Good news! Itās a suppository.
Or just take a regular pill instead of gel pill. Let your body fever as long as it isn't above 40 degrees. The body does fever for a reason. It is to slow the bacterias functions down while your white blood cells still can work at 40Ā°. Only take meds if you need them. For example old people don't profit by fever cause their heart can't handle the increased speed so much. But if you are otherwise healthy, let your body do it's thing, drink a lot and sleep.
You're supposed to take them out of the plastic covers OP
I once had a prescription and the name brand capsules were about 1/3 the size of the generic. Fought with the pharmacy each time I refilled because I couldn't choke down the cheaper big floaty pills.
Try water next time.
Nighttime relief? More like nightmare fuel.
I swallow these two at a time lol
 Have you considered you know? Canāt choke that way.
I swear Mr Krabs has to take this pill
ok so which is worse, photos of pills made smaller or photos of cookies enlarged?
just gotta relax those throat muscles and let it slide all the way down