Recommended (and even prescribed it) to me by standard doctor. But the pills are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_oil huuuge. I used to choke on even regular capsules.
And those are 3 times bigger. Surely some one had to use heimlich on me.
Not all here have the same size of larynx (and reflex gags also varies).
Usually works for me just to open capsule and pour its cargo on the tongue. But, o boy. Not this time. Blah, bruh, ugh. There are 17 cats on my porch right now (not ours) and all the humans have left the contaminated zone. And after two naga chillies I still smell like shark bait. My stomach is like: really, you think?
Is there same other safe way to:
repack those capsules (hmm, mixing them in can of anchovies comes to mind, but I do not want eat these three times a day)
I had similar issues with calcium pills. It’s mostly women who take them, who presumably have smaller mouths and gullets, but the damned things are huge.
A woman I worked for once nearly choked on one of them. If her husband hadn’t known how to do the Heimlich maneuver, she’d be dead today.
After I heard her story, I shopped around and found petite versions of calcium pills. Unfortunately, I can’t find a generic version yet and so must pay for brand-name Citracal Petites. But they’re a heck of a lot easier to swallow.
Have no problem with fish. Medical diet in my case requires fish. No appetite, so they just capsuled me. It is like eating random 165 fish at once (if you took took that capsule in a raw ruptured way).
I have a harder time swallowing solid multivitamins that, while large, are not as large a fish oil pills. Fish oil pills glide down my throat and don’t get stuck, unlike multivitamins.
If (generic) you find the taste bothersome, why not try flax oil? You get the omega-3 supplementation without the fishy taste, and it’s also suitable for vegetarians.
Just realized I have some in the house, so I tried a spoon of it. Still has some of the same taste but 100 times less. With some pumpkin oil and vinegar in lettuce or tomato salad it should be ok.
Nah. Flax oil here is cheap enough. Omega fish oil capsules are also cheap and not regulated here.
Like 4$ for 60 capsules or 15$ for half a liter of flax oil.
If any vegans or other users read this, what should be the daily dosage. Teaspoon? Full spoon? Two? That thing can be dangerous if consumed in wrong quantity.
I buy fish oil capsules from Target with enteric coating. They are not “prescription only.” It’s their up & up brand. Called “burp less fish oil”.
And to the OP, they are 15/16 inch long and 3/8 inch wide which seem to be about the same size as others I have tried. I have no trouble swallowing them. I also never burp them.
First of all, as to your original problem, something like MegaRed sounds like it would work best for you. The Omega-3 from krill oil is more concentrated, so the pills are much smaller.
Second of all, you should almost surely NOT be taking flax oil/seed for the Omega-3s. What’s important with essential fatty acids is THE RATIO of Omega 3/6/9. The typical American diet provides waaaaay too much Omega 6, which is why supplementing Omega 3, specifically, is encouraged in order to improve the ratio. Problem with Flax is that the Omega ratios are all lopsided, and you will be making your Omega ratios *worse *than if you had done nothing at all. http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/why-not-flaxseed-oil