I use Spiriva for my COPD. Every day I take one of the little green capsules out of the pack and insert it in a little plastic holder. I then press a button on this gizmo, which pierces the capsule and I inhale the contents. This morning, after taking my various pills, I realised I had swallowed my capsule.
On my prescription it says, in very bold letters,
Not to be Swallowed.
I read all the paperwork that comes with the drug and have checked on the Internet and found there was a lot of information on what the drug is and what it does when inhaled properly but the sections on 'What happens if you swallow Spiriva' seem to boil down to two statements -
Do not swallow the capsule.
It seems three people did swallow, two were fine, the other one died. (But, it seems, this death had nothing to do with swallowing Spiriva.)
Somehow I am not comforted by what I have found. I still don't know what dire things will happen to me. Will I suffer horrible convulsions? Will I die? Will I go to gaol?
Does anyone out there know the answer to my query?
(I'm trying to be flippant, but I am a teensy bit worried.)
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