On meds? REALLY? What is going on here? This is getting old, already!

Around 9:30pm I took my Synthroid (tiny) and one smallish Doxycycline which I took one after the other and washed down with a little herbal tea... and one or both got stuck! I got to gurgling and feeling sort of "fizzy" in the back of my throat. Pain and nausea followed of course. But seriously... pills?

Oh I had huge problems with pills in the beginning! Still occasionally get one lodged but if I relax and drink something it passes after a while.

I would get the "foamies" if I ate something too big or tried to swallow pills, I am on Armour Thyroid which is a big pill, I had to crush everything in order to get it down. That was for like 3-4 months. Then I was OK, give it time it will pass.......

I'm almost 11 weeks out and this happened starter happening on a frequent basis (daily) at about 7 weeks. Everything was getting stuck (solids, meds). My surgeon said sometimes at about 6 weeks your estophogas can swell . He suggested that I revert back to a liquid diet for a week, purées for a few days, then softs, then solids. For the most part, it worked. I still have the occasional "stuck", but it is a whole lot better.

I think I've got it down. I'm spacing them out more and drinking more between pills. It seems to be working. If I start to have trouble again I'll go back to crushing my synthroid. I think I still have a refill on the liquid suspension equiv of my doxycycline if I need it, too. We'll see how it goes. :-)

Funny how everything seems to be going along fine and then... BAM! Something that never gave you trouble suddenly starts to.

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I always take my am and bedtime pills with some Protein shake. It is thicker and helps me get them down easier.