I successfully swallowed a small pill, just a little while ago! First one since like July 2020.
If an oral medication is not available in some format which can at least be safely/effectively crushed or opened up and dissolved in some liquid? (However disgustingly, I might add. 🙄) I just haven't been able to take it. So this was a bigger deal than you might expect.
Based on a little food experimentation since the latest dilation treatment earlier in the week, I decided it was worth risking one of these teeny little horrors whole:
They're film coated for a reason, yeah. 😬 Those fuckers are not only bitter, they are very well known for making your mouth numb and tingly if you so much as cut them in half--never mind needing to crush them up and swill them in water. It feels horribly weird, and pretty much totally kills my sense of taste for hours--except for its own lingering bitterness! Even trying to take the crap like an hour before bed (about how long I can stay awake afterwards), that's not too pleasant.
So yeah, I was extra glad that at least smooth things that size can make it down without blocking up my throat now! Besides the general relief, because this is the best it's been basically since the scarring started setting in.
More important with, you know, actual food and the like. But I am also relieved at the prospect of maybe not needing overall pretty gross liquid medications from now on. That was hard enough to take when I was a kid, and needing one hell of a lot less of the stuff on a less regular basis!
(Also, I am freshly pissed off at the not-so-benign neglect passing for treatment through the NHS--while persistently acting like that is some great act of charity you should act suitably grateful for. And they really want you out of the system's hair, one way or another. Funny how much more favorable the results can be when the institutional approach is...not like that. 😑 And it's not just me with experiences like this. That's the super frustrating and depressing part. But, trying not to get started right now.)
At any rate, I did indeed successfully swallow a pill. Today a pill, tomorrow the world...of chewier meats? 😄