Can you swallow tablets?

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I can swallow tablets but I have a very unpleasant sensation of them being stuck in my gullet afterwards.

We need a definition of what constitutes swallowing.

-Is it swallowing if you use water?
-Is it swallowing if you use lots of saliva?
-Is it swallowing if you can get it down your mouth, but it gets stuck half way down and drives you nuts for quite a while?
-Does voting "yes" require that you be able to swallow it from a totally dry mouth and have it go all the way to your stomach?
-Does the type of tablet matter?
-How about dissolving it in your mouth? Does that count?

Even as a child I could toss a couple pills into my mouth, close my mouth, go "gulp", and they would be down the hatch even before mom or dad could bring me the glass of water. Never even needed to chase with water. Nothing to it.

Don't understand what the problem is. Must be an NT thing. Not being able to swallow pills.

No, I'm scared that I'll choke. I take my medicine crushed up with applesauce.

I have no problem swallowing tablets. However my stepdad had a terrible time trying to do so and my mom always had to coax him into taking his medicine when the time came. He was a sociologist and was very much the absent minded professor type. One day he left his wallet on the counter in the dentist's office and drove 40 miles home before realizing that he didn't have his wallet.

When i was young i could Not swallow pills, now it isn't a problem at all and i would much rather do that than have to drink awful cough syrup. *shudders*

Yar, nothing wrong with that.

Yeah those vitamins are often the "horse pill" culprits. Some of them are bigger than a fingernail. I get chewables of those too.

Hmm - I can only swallow pills with a LOT of something thick and slippery, like milk. Have to skull basically a whole glass to get it down. Can't swallow them with just water. Certainly not without anything. I used to have that gag reflex thing where it got halfway and then got sent back up but that's getting better the more used to it I get.

I hope that's meant to be a joke. Autistic people are perfectly capable of having this problem too. May be more prone, since the sensory impression of a huge object sliding down your throat un-chewed may be more acute.

Brings back memories from 10 years ago! My record is still 9 pills in one go. Now I take 6 in the morning and 4 at night. No problem.

I know NTs who can't swallow tablets.

I can't swallow tablets though. I crunch them in half with my front teeth then quickly drink down a drink to get rid of the taste.

I had trouble up until I was about 9 or 10. I had to have liquid medicine prior to me learning how to swallow my medications, and it was disgusting.

Yeah, I can swallow tablets as well has horse sized ones. I can't really recall for sure when I had to take a gigantic tablet. It might've been when I had to take a vitamin tablet for something.

Yeah, I can usually swallow tablets, unless they're gigantic. I take them with water, soda pop or saliva.

Occasionally they might get stuck halfway down my throat, but generally no problem taking pills.

I voted no cos I cant unless with somthing thick. . The nurse in my home usually gives me it in yougert I take around roughly 7 a day 10 if you include a liquid one I take 3 times a day and that's not including all my PRNs lol

And Im only 24 :p

I used to take my tablets with a spoonful of ice cream. I would take them and put it under the ice cream so that I would swallow the pills as well. Currently, I can swallow tablets with no problem. I need water to wash them down, though, because I don't like the sensation that I get when the pill gets stuck in my throat.

Yup. It's one of the easiest things about taking care of myself that I can think of... but well, I had to do that a lot as a kid, even more than these days despite the fact that I take stuff daily even now, so maybe it's a result of practice?

They tend to get stuck in my throat, a problem that has been happening quite a bit to me lately.