Yep. I just took my nightly Rx, popped it into the mouth and dry-swallowed like I always do. No problem. About ten minutes later, I have a peculiar feeling in my right internal maxillary sinus area. Something is tickling my soft palate, from above. How odd. I can’t dislodge it forwards, so I make some alarming snorty sounds and dislodge it downwards, into my mouth, and I am floored by a vile taste, so I spit, expecting some unholy mucopurulent matter. Instead, I find the pill I so recently attempted to ingest. It had traveled upwards instead of down and had happily been reverting to its component molecules in my nose. Now I am afraid to operate my esophagus without adult supervision. Also, the parrot is making snorty sounds.
Long story short…A friend of mine was in class eating sweedish fish. She started having a coughing fit so she left class and went to the bathroom. She wound up blowing part of said sweedish fish out her nose. She said it hurt, I wish she had a parrot, I love to know what it sounded like.
This is precisely why dry swallowing medication is not recommended.
HA!
Your bird is mocking you!
My cat tolerates me.
The parrot was indeed mocking me. It also fake-sneezes and imitates my telephone calls.
BT, DT. I was highway driving one night and had a bad headache, so I rummaged around in my bag (on the passenger seat), managed to tease a couple of aspirin out of the childproof bottle, set them on my pant leg, took a swig of water, and swallowed them. I choked a bit, and down they went. OR…?
2-3 minutes later I realized one nostril was plugged and I had a full feeling in the upper sinus on that side. Blew my nose, hard, and one of the aspirin shot through the kleenex, bounced off the windshield, and landed…on my pantleg.
I didn’t take it again. My nose burned for about an hour. (OTOH my headache was completely gone!)
just wandering in to say EEEEEEEWQWWWW ouchies=(
although i was seriously impressed when my brother sneezed and put a mouthful of devils food cake with fudge frosting through his sinuses … but I was also 4 years old :smack:
I once sneezed a small piece of tomato out of my nose…sneezing when eating is dangerous business.
Another time I choked a bit while eating, and discovered that a chunk of taco meat had lodged in my sinus. I was in a restaurant, trying to snort quietly! Ruined my meal, I tells ya. 
:eek: I dry swallow pills all the time. I had no idea this kind of hazard was involved. Never again.
That happened to me with a licorice flavored gumdrop. Weird feeling.
-Tcat
My friend told me a story about something like this. He was eating Gushers, those gummy fruit things with the liquid inside. Green watermelon Gushers. Then someone made him laugh.
He said the worst thing wasn’t noselaunching green goop all over the floor but the burning sensation as all the watermelon-y goodness cleaned out his sinuses.
I can’t decide if I need to scream or laugh. I am doing both.
Oh no I have an even better story. It doesn’t involve taking pills though.
My brother told me he and some friends were drinking when one of his friends starts to get really nauseous. His friend didn’t want to yak in the room so he decided to sit there and put his hand over his mouth and wait for the feeling to pass. It doesn’t. Next thing you know, his friend is frantically searching for a trash can when he starts to yak. But not from his mouth - from his nose! His hand was firmly on his mouth, so the vomit had to go somewhere. And according to my brother, when you’re yakking through your nose, you can’t just stop, so he just kept throwing up through his nose, all the while his friends are laughing and he’s just crying and hoping he’ll be done soon.
My brother thought this was the most awesome thing he ever saw. Poor guy, he smelled vomit for the next week.
My wife tells me she did this with her birth control once, due to a poorly-timed sneeze, IIRC. Burned like the dickens, and she could not dislodge it. I’m just happy it’s never happened with her vitamins, which are many times larger.