Why can’t pharmaceutical companies make tiny tablets with lower doses for people who struggle to take tablets?? Not everyone is a behemoth with a huge mouth and throat with no problem taking tablets the size of their fist!

I’ve been prescribed iron tablets but they’re quite big so I can’t take them and cutting them down makes them still awkward and sharp which is uncomfortable with ulcers in your throat. I even asked the GP before he prescribed them if they were tiny tablets and he said yes! These doctors need to reimagine their definition of tiny. I have some tablets that are smaller than a tic tac and they’re fine, and that’s what I mean by tiny.

But why! Why can’t pharmaceutical companies not just make some smaller? We asked at the pharmacy and they don’t have any smaller ones in a smaller dose that I can take more of, and we can’t even get any over the counter to tide me over until we figure out what to do next. It’s just bloody stupid. And then a family member comes along and says ‘why don’t you crush it?’ Like it’s going to be easy to crush the whole tablet into a fine powder and then mix it with a drink and it won’t taste like ass? I’m not doing that twice a bloody day.