When I was younger I was super at swallowing pills.  Never choked, never felt fear of choking on pills, even as a child.  Of course, how many pills do you take as a child, right?

As I grew older though, I began to struggle with swallowing some pills.  It probably started in my late 50s. There were some supplements that I was taking, or should I say trying to take, that I finally just had to stop taking.  After all it wasn’t going to do any good anyway if I was dead on the floor with a huge pill stuck in my throat!  Calcium was one of them.  Thank you pharmaceutical companies for creating the petite calcium pill!  I can now continue to prevent osteoporosis!

As I was struggling to take large pills, my husband was continuing to be able to swallow his without a problem.  Until recently that is, when I gave him a large vitamin C.  He commented later that he had a hard time swallowing that pill. I thought, huh, maybe it’s not just me.  I was well aware that the elderly often have difficulty swallowing their medication, but I don’t consider myself elderly! Read more….