bad medicine

Corsodyl mouthwash - the original flavour. I had to use it when I had my wisdom teeth extracted. It got to the point where I only had to see the bottle (not smell or taste the mouthwash) and I would start to heave!

Awful stuff.

hello, scarlet woman! to me all medicine tastes bad. and i do not want to take it even though i am a little under the weather. if it is not serious to me i will not go to the hospital and go to see the doctor. sometimes when i get a cold, i can recover after waiting for a few days.

When I was about 11 or 12, we discovered that I'm allergic to amoxicillin, when I broke out in hives. The medicine that I had to take to get rid of the hives was NASTY. My mom eventually had to explain to me how you do shots (like of alcohol) so that I could basically get the medicine down quickly, without it really going across my tongue.:)

A close second is Alka-Seltzer. I will only take that if I am miserably ill, because it literally makes me gag to drink it.

Oh, I thought after reading the title that this was going to be a contest to name a Bon Jovi song.:) I can't stand anything that has cherry in it so that right off the bat would make me puke. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. I've had castor oil, once. I did have to drink cranberry juice for a UTI, now I can't even walk past the stuff without shuttering. Calcium gives you gas huh? Well, at least it cleans out the dust.

Hi scarlet, I don't take a lot of pills in my life..But, Anything that is big capsule..I hate that! makes me feel sick to force myself swallowing it! LOL!

Hi.
Here in Canada we have this 'stuff' that's called "Buckley's Mixture" and it tastes terrible. The commercial even states that "it tastes awful, but it works". It shows all of these people making terrible faces after taking a spoonful of Buckley's. One of the oddest ingrediants is pine oil or some such thing...yes that's right, pine...like the tree..maybe that has something to do with how terrible it tastes.
Nadine

I've always been rather rail thin..LOL. My mother used to tell me that I must have taken after my father's side of the family since they could eat a whole cow at every meal and not gain weight...so when I was a kid she took me to the docs to get medicine that would help me GAIN weight....uh, wonder it there was a jealousy thing going with her since she was the opposite..she would gain weight just by looking at food. Anyway, so the doc prescribed this liquid medication...it was a sickly looking pukey green....and yikes tasted like it too, either that or monkey pee.
Oh and as a btw....nope I only gained a little bit of weight with it...my doc just chaulked it up to having a fast metabolism and burned calories fast

I would have to say the medicine for asthma called Prednisone. If the pill stays in your mouth for a second it tastes horribly bitter!
I think it reminds me of rubbing alcohol;not that I have ever had that in my mouth but when you accidently get some on your finger and taste;YUCH!

There is no contest in my mind, and I've had a lot of yucky medicine. When I was a kid I was anemic, and they made me take liquid iron medicine. It was like drinking liquified iron. My mom would give me bubblegum afterward to try to ward off the taste, but it would stay with me. And then, and I know it is gross, I would burp up the taste for entire day following.

Good discussion! I'm sorry I can't remember the name of this alleged medication,and I'd like to apologise for not warning kids or their parents who may be about to discover how nasty this stuff is,assuming it's still on the market(I think I may have succeded in repressing the memory!) but it was a sickly orange flavour and colour and it made me heave! every so often I'll get a whiff of something orangey that brings it all horribly back...