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Wife diagnosed with Parkinsons disease on Jan 16, 2006. She takes Sinmet, Namenda, Citalopram HBR (your manufacture), Exelon, Vitamin D, Vitamin B, and Ibuprophen. About 20+ pills a day.
She has a terrible time taking your pills (1 and 1/2 20 mg tablets at breakfast). For some reason the Citalopram sticks to her tongue and she simply doesn't seem to be able to get them down. The other pills are not very difficult. I've tried apple sauce, yogurt, honey, juice, water, grinding them up into a powder (pills do not pulverize and many granules remain in the glass).
She eats a normal amount of food; slowly but normal quantity.
How can I help her swallow the Citalopram pills from you?
Loran K.
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This website is not the manufacturer of any prescription medication, nor any other product, this is an information only website.

Now, as to the tablets, if she's placing them on her tongue, so they stick, then she isn't taking them properly and that applies to any medication, regardless of the manufacturer.

Learn more Citalopram details here.

Tablets shouldn't be placed on the tongue, they should actually be placed way back towards the throat, just to the point where someone doesn't choke on them, then swallowed down with a full 8 ounce glass of water.

If you can't assist her in taking them properly, then you may want to talk to her doctor about trying something else or maybe they can prescribe the injectable form and teach you to give her the shots.

Are there any other questions?

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