The GP gave me an anti-emetic prescription the other week - Stemetil is its brand name, although what the pharmacist actually gave me was a small white non-branded cardboard box with a sticker on saying prochlorperazine, or whatever the chemical is.
Fine, no problem with that. No need for pointless branding and packing. Except that the no-frills character extended so far that the pills themselves appeared to have been made there and then using some kind of antiquated pressing-powder-into-pill-form equipemtn in the back room. Again, no problem, you might think. Except, remember what these pills are for: To stop vomiting. Powdery and lacking in coating, it is almost impossible to swallow these pills in one smooth go. They stick to your tongue. They stick to the wall of your mouth. Again, no problem. Except that when this happens, they leave traces of themselves behind. And they taste disgusting. So disgusting that the taste alone is enough to make you... vomit. As I did yesterday, when I tried to take one.
What kind of idiot would give such a thing to anyone? Does nobody think about these things? Isn't it bad enough that they no longer even make any anti-emetics in suppository form, and if you can't keep anything down - which would be the main reason for having them prescribed - that applies to pills as much as it does to anything else?
Grr.
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A friend of mine who is hypoglycaemic is given anti-emetic pills for buccal administration, i.e. you stick them up between your gum and your cheek and they dissolve slowly. I've had them too, for an otherwise unstoppable gastric bug some years ago. As far as I can remember they didn't taste of anything. Of course it may be that they don't make any anti-emetics for buccal administration that it's safe to take in pregnancy, but still, sounds like it might be worth asking your GP.
Another thought - didn't people, once upon a time, use bread to make pills? And isn't bread one of the things you can eat? Maybe you could squidge a wee bit of (non-crust) bread around the powdery pill thing, and form it into a small smooth-sided torpedo shape that would be swallowable?
Brings back memories... apparently the sicker the mother, the healthier the baby. I was sick throughout my 2nd pregnancy, and so far the 'baby' (who is now an adult) is never ill...
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