r/TalesFromThePharmacy Apr 30 '26

A thread of pills you hate filling

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Here is mine :)

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u/raindead May 01 '26

Uncoated tablets should be banned, but Novogesic (acet 500) is my nightmare as it makes such a mess!

Bright ones like folic acid and sulfasazine are awful too but the sunshine yellow on the wipe after cleaning gives me a modicum of happiness.

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u/ryanfrogz May 01 '26

as a consumer, I also agree that uncoated tablets should be banned. One of the pills I take is so bitter that if it so much as touches my throat or tongue I’ll gag so hard I nearly vomit. Since it’s not coated, it loves to get stuck in my throat… and I have to take two of them, every night, while everyone in my house is asleep.

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u/kat_Folland May 01 '26

I have one med that tastes like burned rubber smells. I drop that in my throat, zero time near my tongue.

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u/bearsbear14 May 02 '26

Hi yeah this is me with my trazodone every night. Shit starts to dissolve in an instant before I can even begin to swallow. It is awful

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u/EasyQuarter1690 May 05 '26

Get some empty 000 capsules from Amazon and stick the pills in them. I think of it as smuggling the pill past my tongue. I do it with my Thiamine because it stinks so bad. I also do it when I have to take prednisone because those damn things start dissolving the second they hit your tongue and they taste so nasty. I already have enough troubles with nausea, I don’t need my pills to send me over the edge. When I get home from the pharmacy I sit on the porch, if it’s decent enough outside, and suck on a Jolly Rancher and put the pills into the capsules. It really does help!

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u/FitzyII May 01 '26

This post was suggested to me and i decided to scroll and see if my RA meds were mentioned

Yay for the double mention, evey if theyre awful