Swallowing pills

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as you clasp his mouth shut with your hand over his nose and chin. That is absurdly funny.

No, I have never had problems with swallowing pills. I began when I was 7.

Yes, especially those big pills that look like horse pills. Some of the smaller pills are equally difficult, because they get stuck in my throat and can taste really bitter.

Yeah. Big pills present obvious difficulty, but small pills are more subject to the peculiar fluid flow within your swallowing mouth, and it's not unusual for me to swallow a mouthful of water and still end up feeling the bitter nastiness of the pill dissolving on my tongue. More water!

I am nineteen and can still only swallow very small pills. I have to eat my epilepsy meds.

I've had to swallow pills all my life, so I'm used to it now.

from as early as i can remember, i have always swallowed pills without any liquid just pop the dry pill in and down it goes.

I used to think I'd never be able to swallow pills. However, I needed to swallow pills for my anxiety, OCD and depression. I was very scared for awhile, but I've been taking my medicine for two years now and it's not a big deal anymore.

Being at the dentist is a nightmare for me, brushing my back teeth risks that lurching pre-puke reflex in my torso, and I'm emetophobic.

I do something like this-suspend the pills in the liquid that is sloshing around in my mouth, then swallow it all together, in hopes the pills won't catch on roof of my mouth or stick on a tonsil ! I have hidden a pill in a spoonful of yogurt & that works. Crushing or halving a tablet may work in some cases, but it leaves crumbly unsmoothed edges that seem more apt to be noticed while trying to get them down one's throat. Have read that the impulse to lean one's head back is counterproductive, and that if one's having difficulty, one should lean one's head forward, chin downwards instead of upwards. Not a lot, just a little tilting or leaning-something to do with the anatomy & mechanisms, makes it sound like the Panama Canal-how it's orientation's twisted.
Have much trouble, panic where my throat tightens up & I feel strangled from within, swallowing pills. The larger in size the worse it is. Had liquid meds. when sick as a child or chewed baby aspirins (yummy orange flavored but grainy, powdery texture). Nowadays I have to discuss in detail the dimensions of the pill when it's being prescribed to me-to make sure I don't end up with a bottle of uselessly huge things the size of earplugs. As if !
Coatings on pills are helpful, to mask the bitter taste long enough for one to successfully consume them. Haven't much problem with small ones (size of a watch battery), such as birth control pill or Sudafed's tiny decongestants. Regular aspirin is a challenge. Anything larger (and there are plenty of them, alas) is a disaster.
Aside from this, in general I just don't like taking pills-I smoke & drink, so it's not health reasons. Instinctively & emotionally feels wrong & dangerous for me to take any pill-though I admit I am grateful for having modern medicine when my headache pain is alleviated by one of these.