i hope someone can help me out with a little advice. I have just started taking my liver cleanse pills taking 3 caps am & pm and have been into it for one wk but now I cant take my pills!! they just wont go down and im wasting pills because i keep gagging or i feel like im going to choke when i try to swallow them...will someone pls help me out i just started and i dont wanna give up already:( does anyone have some kind of alternative to get those suckers down pls....thx

I sympathize. As a child, I could never swallow pills, and only recently as an adult, have things improved. If you cannot swallow your pills, here are a few of tricks:

1) Take the pill, keep it in your mouth, and take in a gulp of water, then swallow the water and pill at the same time.

2) Wrap the pill in bread, or other soft food that will not require chewing, and swallow.

3) Take in a small amount of food, chew, and just as you feel ready to swallow, pop in your pill and swallow it together with the food.

4) Spray or gargle with an over-the-counter topical anesthetic (used for sore throats) before swallowing.

5) Practice swallowing mini candies, or small bites of food, without chewing to simulate pill taking.

how about with some chocolate pudding. thick and covers taste pretty well. a spoonful is usually enough. good luck!

thank you so much for ur advice moon...its so weird how in the beginning it wasnt a problem and now all of a sudden i cant get them down its been driving me crazy since i havent even started my program yet and im going to have to be taking more pills then...i will definitely try what you suggested and hopefully it helps...i actually called my grandma and she recommended i take it with a teaspoon of applesauce...hmm i wonder if that will work...hopefully something does because i dont want to give up on this!no way!thx again so much i really appreciate it!:)

wow thats not a bad idea at all diana:) and i absolutely luv pudding..mmm yummy! i think i'll go buy some right now so i can take the rest of my pills tonight! what a relief!!thx again!!

thats how i took my vitex pills this morning. just about started to chew them until i remembered it was not all chocolate in my mouth! yeah, i an little bit scatter brained if you guys haven noticed. did that once with advil. sucked the candy coating right off and commenced to chew. NASTY STUFF! YUCK! hope you have better luck. lol

diana-thx for the advice and for making me laugh...LOL...i can just imagine you sucking away...haha..:) LOL...do you take all you pills this way??? its good to know im not alone:)

but my husband bought some pudding last night and it looked way more inviting than a bottle of water. lol. sometimes i do or yogurt works well too. he you foot want all the extra calories from the pudding. no idea there. chocolate pudding just sounds better on an empty stomache. good luck.

your probably right about the pudding even tho im a sucker for anything chocolate hehe;)...so considering since i have yogurt on hand i think ill try that..oh well pudding sounded so good but id be eating it all day with all the pills ill be taking i can practically swallow those pudding cups whole...LOL...i was a bit curious about your story and saw u started off with herbs and are now on brava...how have u been doing and what made u change ur program if i may ask?? did the herbs work for you at all?? i think u did mention some growth if i remember correctly...

it sounds funny, but i have found that the only way to get my cat to take a pill is to put it in peanut butter.

cats arent even supposed to LIKE peanut butter... my cat is a little crazy though...

but for us pill-poppers it is helpful because a bit of peanut butter is good with protein too! so i started doing the same thing... now my cat and i could probably polish off the whole jar!

though now i really would like some pudding...

herbs worked pretty good for me. I grew like one and a quarter inches in less than two months. my husband just didnt see the pills working at first and didnt want of wasting money. then he did notice a difference and say how dedicated i was and we had some extra $ at the time and he remembered of saying something about brava and he said i could get it and i jumped at the opportunity. have been on it for 2 wks and 1 night. planning on at least 12-14 more. thanks for asking. good luck!

diana- wow thats really good! that really gives me hope for my own success:) its great your husband is so supportive. im going at this alone mostly just to avoid resistance from the fam and friends who will most likely discourage me. they'll see:)...congratulations and i hope brava can extend your results...ill check in on you now and then to see how your doing...good luck and thanks for everything!

emmie- peanut butter! really i would have never thought of that. i luv it too!! gosh all the choices and i thought it was the end of the road for me...lol...yah right! i tried out the yogurt and it worked well for me but i might try the pb just out of curiosity...you put the pill in your mouth first then take in pb or you take it in a spoon??? how have you been doing on your program by the way..i remember reading u were getting results...congrats!!keep it up:)

i just get a small spoon of peanut butter (like a quarter spoonful, because i have to take a lot of pills and boy that would be a lot of peanut butter!), toss the pill on top and have at it! its a little harder than doing it with yogurt because peanut butter is sticky so sometimes it will get a little stuck. have a glass of milk/water/whatever you like to drink handy.

i have been doing pretty well. i think the initial growth spurt was the most productive and it is slowing down a little, but i am still growing... thanks for asking!!

hope you find something tasty to go along with those pills!

thank you all for all your help:) i did find the yogurt to work pretty well....and the pb was pretty good too...(thx emmie)..what would i do without u guys..i owe you one:)

to help one another, as sisters would. glad i could help. good luck with your program.

I don't like taking pills either. It sounds like you are doing well with the yogurt and pudding (we all want some chocolate pudding after reading this thread!), but I just thought I would mention that I find it easier to swallow pills with a warm drink like coffee, tea or hot chocolate. Still I can only handle taking so many pills so I got some liquid extracts from Greenbush that are not alcohol based. The alcohol based herbs are rather nasty. Actually all are nasty, but the alcohol based are much nastier. At least when I put the Greenbush herbs in cranberry juice it masks the taste much more effectively. 1ml of liquid extract = 1,000 mg. so it is very convenient. When I was taking lots of the capsules, I was taking them with ice water and I really had a hard time. I constantly felt like I had a pill stuck in my throat. Ick!
Best wishes to you!

thx lassy! u are so right!!!oh my gosh!! i was taking the pills with apple juice out of the fridge(cold!!) but this morning i warmed it up before taking my pills and wow they went down so much easier!!and my throat didnt feel sore...thanks so much for that tip!!

if they are capsule form just rip em open and put em on a spoon and take down with fruit juice

if they are the hard form break emwith a knife and take em down with fruit juice