• ThisIsNotHim
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    20 days ago

    It may depend quite a bit on the pill. As an adult I can easily dry swallow things like ibuprofen. But I’m not sure about something like oral steroids.

    I was prescribed them as a kid due to a particularly bad poison ivy reaction. I couldn’t swallow pills at the time, so after running through all the tricks to teach someone, we ended up grinding them up and sticking them in ice cream. It was something like 15 years before I could eat cookies and cream again without tasting steroids. Grinding them definitely exacerbated the problem, but I’m not sure how I’d fare if prescribed the same pills again.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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      19 days ago

      Yeah it’s wild how adding some pills to strawberry yogurt just makes for really really fucking bitter yogurt.

      Yeah I learned how to dry swallow after almost that same incident cause I wasn’t ruining food I liked anymore