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Old Feb 01, 2016, 03:05 AM
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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow View Post
When I used to get really nauseous from the taste of lamictal someone told me that it would help to take it in baby food fruits/desserts because there are a lot of flavors and you don't associate the one flavor to the nausea so strongly. It worked at least better than swallowing it with water or sticking to applesauce to hide the taste. Eventually my pdoc changed me to the pediatric pills which are chewable but taste horrendous anyway (or did back then, it was a long time ago) and I had to take 8 of them. They were easier to swallow and I threw up less often so we stuck with them and the fruits did help. I always felt a bit weird buying a bunch of babyfood but no veggies (figured people wondered what kind of unhealthy child I was raising) but whatever. Make sure your dr knows about the issues.

I think you can also buy large empty gelatin capsules and stuff your pills in that so there is no taste. I never tried that for some reason (laziness?) but I know that's how they sometimes get kids to take chemo pills or people with dementia to swallow one pill rather than 14.

Switching to lithobid or eskalith tablets might help. I told you that the smell of the capsules was enough to make me vomit and I didn't have that with the tablets, especially eskalith (the dosing of eskalith is a little different but not enough to be a real problem).
Wow, I didn't know such gelatin capsules existed. I might really need to look into that because that'd make my life so much easier. Baby food sounds like a good idea because I really like it anyway!
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