I’ve always had to take a decent amount of pills daily for my depression and anxiety. Normally i take 3 and 1/2 pills in the morning, and 2 in the afternoon. I haven’t had a problem with it until the last few months. I actually neglected taking my pills for a while because the thought of them made me sick. Now whenever I take them I nearly start gagging and i feel like i’m going to throw up. Its hard to explain, but I feel as if it’s all in my head because i don’t taste the pills throughout the day, but in my mind i cant get the taste of them out of my mouth. It’s gotten so bad that i barely drink soda anymore because that’s what i used to mainly drink with my pills and i now associate it with the pill taste which makes me not want to drink it. Has anybody else dealt with this?? Is there something I can do?
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I've had problems with taking pills when I was younger because they would elicit a gag reflex. But that was only for swallowing the pill and mostly with larger pills. I still get that some some times, but if I take enough liquid I usually can get them down.
If just thinking about them it's clearly more a psychological matter. If you associate the pills with feeling sick, then that can be enough to feel sick when you think or use them. I don't like coffee because I was sick when I drank coffee for the first time. I am sure it had nothing to do with the coffee, but I still can't stand coffee.
I uesta be addicted to concerta after I got through withdrawal just seeing a concerta pill made me sick to my stomach. My thoughts on why I feel this way are they made me feel sick (withdrawal) so now I associate them with being sick obviously my scenario is different then yours but they are also similar in ways
This is probably anxiety that you've built up around taking your medication, rather than the actual pills making you want to throw up. So yes, more in your head, I'd say. You could try grinding them into more of a powder between two spoons and taking it that way instead of as tablets. Or by all means use a different non-noxious liquid to take them with, if that will help, or try taking them with something that you think is a real treat and see if you can get over it that way. Maybe your family doctor knows of a liquid form of your medication as an alternative. Otherwise you may need professional help to get you over this and back on track, as it's so important to your recovery to stay on the medication regularly.
Do you take them on an empty stomach? An empty stomach will do that.