Health Thread: Questions, Concerns, and Discussion

[Madican]

Never had a feeding schedule for our cats. The older one lately though I do only fill her dish once a day so she paces herself. The younger ones though have free access to food and are just fine.

[Cori]

Eh, old Hopper isn't really fat, not anymore at least. When he was younger he was pretty pudgy, but he dropped a few pounds. He was about 11 pounds when I took him to get his most recent shots.

[Nachalnik]

i have to take anti-anxiety/depression medication everyday but i hate taking tablets more than anything

what do

[Madican]

Well you can either figure out that life is full of unpleasant things that you can't avoid or you can continue to be miserable and always wonder if the medicine would have helped.

Seriously, just grit your teeth and take the medicine.

[Riku]

i have to take anti-anxiety/depression medication everyday but i hate taking tablets more than anything

what do

Well, before answering that, I'd like to ask another question first. What is it about taking the tablets that you hate?

[Terraem]

I hate taking tablets because of the actual physical sensation of having to swallow them, so I put them on my tongue and rinse them back with a whole glass of water.

[Cafall]

When I was a tyke, I'd take a sip of water, tilt my head back, and drop the pill on the water and swallow
You also might chew up a cracker and toss it back before you swallow or smth

assuming it's the physical act of taking it that you're talking about anyway

[Barabba]

I find that the best way to swallow tablets and pills easily is to pretend that they're tiny, thieving babies who only want to steal your throne from you.

[Winchester]

What


Anyway, what helped me the most with taking tablets/pills is using soda.

[Doormaster]

man it always weirds me out when people take pills with liquid

I can't have solid stuff in my drinks

even like floating bits of cereal in milk makes me a little nauseous

[shazza]

^ the way i do it is i put the pill like in the back of my mouth and then swallow right as the liquid goes in, so its not floating around or anything haha. works best with a straw.

i hate taking pills though i still taste them even with soda >< it's a good thing my bc pills are like the size of a flea.

[Cori]

Pills are my preferred method of medicine-taking. I'm a huge wuss about any other kind of medicine. When I was young my mom was always trying to force me to drink medicine when I got sick, and not only was the medicine awful, but sometimes we'd spend hours locked up in the bathroom at night with mom trying to make me drink it. Also, I have a really sensitive gag refles when it comes to medicines. I could not hold down a dose of Robitussen when I had the flu one time.

My mom also tried chewable medicine, like tylenol. At first I thought 'hell yeah' because I thought it was going to be like those Flintstone vitamin tablets, the ones that are kind of tangy and fruity. I liked those.

Well, uh, I tried the tylenol...and I threw up. In a Carl's Jr restaurant. I barely had enough time to make it to the bathroom, and I was miserable afterwards.

So we basically came to the conclusion that the only medicine I could really handle is stuff that I couldn't taste. Sometimes mom would give me a spoonful of peanut butter with the tylenol in it, chopped up into little bits. Or a pill in a dab of butter helped, too. Now that I'm older I can just knock back a pill with a glass of water, and I'm not willing to try any other kind of medicine anymore.

[shazza]

somehow that reminded me that when i was little i got this really bad flu/virus thing and i had to take these MASSIVE pills. like as long as quarter is wide. and my mom told me they were horse pills and i thought it was RADICAL to take horse pills

[Doormaster]

I just dry swallow

but I don't think any of the pills I've had to take have been terribly large so

[Cori]

Oh yeah, I've had to take my share of 'horse pills'. They were the ones I used to put a dab of butter on to help them go down, but I can tolerate them just fine on their own now.