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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/DungeonsAndData on 2025-07-14 01:45:00+00:00.

Quick disclaimer: It’s a migraine medication. I have the kind of migraine that can knock me out for days and leave me foggy for a week or two. The medicine, if I take it on time, stops the migraine dead in its tracks and I end up sleepy for a few hours. If I take it too late, I end up suffering a few extra days, but no fogginess. Not great, but better than nothing.

So I was out with my family on an out-of-state vacation, and I had to come up with a way to keep my medication with me. They’re all individual packets so it’s easy to divvy up. I had some in my office, my work bag, my daily bag, my nightstand, all the usuals… But that doesn’t help on my trip. So I figured, I’d have it with me all the time, so my wallet would be great! Except…i keep my wallet in my back pocket, not my front, and we were going rock hounding.

So, one fantastic drizzly day of clawing through clay and shale to find cool stuff, clanging with pickaxes and hammers, we finally get in the car with our spoils and I almost immediately get an aura. I grab for a bottle of water and the pill and when I open it, it’s powder. Just powder.

This thing is a pressed pill, and even just putting it in my mouth to swallow it is so f@#$&ing bitter, so I knew what was about to happen. My options were limited, because if I waited, it was a one-way ticket to pain for the rest of the vacation and a good chunk of my return week no matter what I did.

So I huffed and puffed and swallowed my apprehension…and the powder.

Y’all, if Bititrex was a medicine, this would have given it a run for its money. I gagged. I wheezed. I had tears in my eyes…but it worked. I managed to live to regret it for the rest of the trip, migraine free!

TL:DR Do NOT keep your medications in your back pocket when doing intensive adventuring. Pills were not made for flavor.