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Brenda5
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9 years ago

Trivia, how do you take your pills?

Probably a bit sad I know but pill taking is still kind of new to me since before I had breast cancer I thought you had to chew panadols, not swallow them whole. Now I take my Tamoxifen, half of a tiny 100mg aspro, two vitamin C tablets, a pro magnesium pill, and a vitamin D3 pill. I like to make a contest of it and see if I can swallow the lot with one mouth full water to wash them down at the same time. Most mornings I am successful and they all go down the gullet at once! How do you like to take your pills?
  • Hopes_and_Dream's avatar
    Hopes_and_Dream
    Member
    9 years ago
    Grrr half a post on my phone again!
    I take Arimidex, 2 calcium, 2 glucosamine, vitamin C and Magnesium. On Friday I add B12 and D.  I put 3 teaspoons of yoghurt into a little bowl and take one tablet at a time hidden in a teaspoon of yoghurt. Slides down nice and easily! I see my husband swallow a handful of vitamins all in one go and I could cry with envy haha.  Jane xx
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    Hopes_and_Dream
    Member
    9 years ago
    I have breakfast then my dessert (pills!!) I am hopeless at taking big tablets, even panadol makes the gag reflex kick in. But I have found a solution
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    Glemmis
    Member
    9 years ago
    I am only taking 2 a day, 1 for blood pressure in morning & now Femara at around 6.00pm which I am struggling to remember!
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    Cate64
    Member
    9 years ago
    ha ha.... @Brenda5 I take 4 x Xeloda, 2 x Catrate with Vit D & 1 x Vit D each morning, throw them all in my mouth & have a moutful of water & they are gone, at night I only have to take 4 x Xeloda & I do the same thing... Taking tablets isn't a drama for me :)
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    Afraser
    Member
    9 years ago
    I have a fair few (many are medically recommended supplements) so I have admitted defeat and got a weekly pill box! Six in the morning in two batches, six pre and post dinner and three at bedtime. I no longer have to take a medication that had to be taken 45 mins before food (hooray, source of delayed dinners). Only some are slightly time critical.