I’ve recently heard the phrase “anything that can be taken sublingual can be taken rectally”.

Is this true and can it be applied to estrogen tablets without a shell/coating? Seems like it would bet the swallowing effect from saliva.

And a follow up question, does it need to be jammed in all the way or just past the sphincter muscle?

  • Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    2 days ago

    The whole point of sublingual is to extract the maximum amount of available estrogen from the pill. So my bigger worry is that it would be totally ineffective.