Can my friend open an antidepressant capsule and just swallow the powder? She c!
Question:
Can my friend open an antidepressant capsule and just swallow the powder? She can't swallow well.?
My friend has problems swallowing capsules. Can she break open an antidepressant capsule and swallow the powder?
Answers:
Hi,
your friend has my sympathies...I couldn't take any kind of pill all my life until I had a heart attack in 1997 and was lying in my hospital bed eating a meal. The nurse came round with an aspirin (80 mg) which is a tiny tablet. I asked her for two spoons so I could crush it and take the powder with water (which does taste foul)
As she went away (with a look of utter disgust on her face) to get them I thought to myself, 'Why can't I 'eat' a tiny tablet like that when I've just swallowed a huge lump of dinner?'
I tried to swallow and ...away it went! I been able to swallow pills without problems ever since (after 53 years without ever getting one down) So there's still hope for your friend.
The doctors don't like the 'capsule emptying, tablet crushing etc.' that I used to perform each time I was required to take medication, and claimed the 'absorption rate' would be affected, but I never suffered any adverse effects from my 'tablet avoidance practices'.
Your friend should be OK, but perhaps, periodically, she should just 'try' one more time. My 'notice board day' was 19th. December 1997 and I haven't looked back since.
Easy-peasy (as we English say)
Good luck with your friend...she does really have my sympathy.
From an ex-capsule emptier and tablet crusher,
BobSpain