I bet you swallow bites of food all the time that are larger than those pills that are tormenting you. Ask yourself how it is that you have no trouble those bites of food, but the pills give you so much trouble. I pondered this idea one day as a child and have had no trouble swallowing pills of any size with or without water ever since. Now if by chance you not able to swallow bites of food larger than a pill then, well, thats another story.