It is so hard to swallow pills whole they fight you at every effort and when the day comes that you have swallowed too many, your tongue will try and push them out begging you to please stop, to live with the headache, the stomach ache, the pulled muscles and joint pain. Refusing to be sixty at seventeen, you ignore it and force yourself to swallow. Anything to stay loose and to stop the pounding in my head. Stomach ulcers, blood clots Doctors say I'm a hypochondriac I know that I am but the pills help they do all the asprin and ibuprophin I think my body is half Clariton Reverse bulimia I make myself swallow