As you must have guessed, this one's for the hydrodynamicists out there.
Let me start by saying, that of the medical people I've spoken to, none knew about this little trick of mine—discovered after a recent illness after which I was put on a regimen including some sizable (viz., supplement/vitamin) pills.
Well I found that even using water in copious amount, as likely as not one of those big pills would hang up (a hard gulp) in the upper throat, apparently getting turned askew like a poor kayak-er riding a fall/rapids.
So one day, throwing caution to the wind, I added the second of three pills scheduled for ingestion. When they both together went down smoothly without any hangup (and again...over a few days' trials), I next tried three (the limit).
If not easier, three went went down just as easily, and still without any difficulty as had been the case with just one.
No, there was no (unwitting or otherwise) compensatory addition of water—the same or less water being used, or needed—in fact not much more than a generous sip.
So my question is:
What answer can I give to others (health care workers or not) to explain this anti-intuitive phenomenon...where, as best as I can hypothesize, attempting to swallow multiple pills somehow causes them to align in streamline conformation as they make way towards the esophagus...even that pill which is the "leader" pill!
...uncanny
A hard pill to swallow? Why not swallow more.
Re: A hard pill to swallow? Why not swallow more.
