how i take pills sublingually
So yeah, this is an ethnography. It's not medical advice. It's just a recording of something that is happening, not an endorsement of that thing. I'm not making you be a tranny.
(this song isn't related but I like it a lot)
If you have to take those turquoise pills to feel like a human being (in which case, i'm sorry lol), a lot of people say you need to take them sublingually. It's one of those things that's just taken as common knowledge among experienced turquoise pill takers. I started taking the turquoise pills years ago after the pharmacies where I live had a multi-year shortage of the clear injectable version. I've done it myself for years (with the turquoise ones, and the white ones, and the pink ones, and the red ones, and the yellow ones, and the...)
Is it actually a thing? I've heard it is. I've seen charts saying you get better absorption, but I'm not going to get into that. The folk wisdom says to do it, but I didn't personally notice that much difference between oral, sublingual, and buccal. My levels were pretty similar each way, although I do feel less anxious taking my meds sublingually. Maybe I just want to be like the other girls? Am I a joiner, after all?
"Woah, should I be doing this?"
Talk to your doctor, read the science behind it, and make your own educated decision. Don't listen to random people online about your healthcare.
"Are you giving me medical advice?"
I am not. I have never given anyone medical advice. You'd be a moron to take medical advice from me. I am telling you what I do for purely anthropological reasons. I don't know whose fault it is if you try this stuff, but it's not mine. It's always fun hearing about it, though. Was it Virginia Woolf? Did Marceline the Vampire Queen do it? Did you watch Ghost in the Shell? Do you still have a Lain avatar even though you're actually 30 and somehow still just like Tomoko?
anyways,
WHAT YOU NEED
- your own prescribed pills with your name or deadname on the bottle (´◡`)
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HOW-TO
- Break the pill in two. If it has a break line, then snap it. Otherwise, bite it in half without getting too much saliva on it.
- Carefully cram it underneath your tongue, then hold your tongue down against it and don't move it around. They say "if you're tasting it, you're wasting it." Is that true? IDK.
- Wait until the pill is dissolved. Don't eat or drink anything for 15 minutes after. (I often break this rule because I've been on this shit for 10 years and it kind of just is what it is at this point.)
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TIPS AND TRICKS
- if you try this, it's at your own risk. also, it will hurt (probably not physically, but, like. worse?)
- this one time, I went to bed fucked up and fell asleep before the pill dissolved, but I drooled in my sleep. It ended up leaving a turquoise trail from the corner of my mouth to the bottom of my chin. My wife laughed at me super hard, too, because estrogenous drool. Don't make my mistakes. Save "estrogenous drool" for the AO3 tags. It's lame IRL.