Crushing Pills Post Op

[Mary Ash 16]

I take a laundry list of medicine each day so it was hard for me to accept that I would have to now crush all of my pills and take them every day. I tried this for a week or so after surgery but I had so many pills to take and some of them were capsules that just contained too much powder. I tried mixing them with pudding/applesauce/yogurt etc but I could still taste the extremely bad taste of the pills.

Luckily a few of my meds are available in liquid form and I would suggest anyone to ask their pharmacy any of their meds are available in liquid form, I was surprised with which ones were available.

So the question is now I have been taking mostly the liquid meds but the few smaller pills I have simply been taking. They are pretty small and I think they are probably fine but anyone else do this? Are they not going to get fully absorbed or something?

[Tweety39 0]

I was banded last Tuesday and taking my meds are so hard the taste is so bad expeally the capsle ones, I take cyblata and a blood presure which are capsles and the cbalta is little balls which donot desolve well and if you open them up and place them in your mouth you take in too much liquids. so anybody with ideas please let me know

[onikenbai 33]

I take my pills regularly and I'm on my third or fourth fill... I've actually lost count. My pills are small though, probably only about 4mm across. My surgeon told me that once you are properly restricted, anything you ingest has to fit through a hole roughly the size of a chick pea. Chick peas are a good 6-7mm across. You can buy a pill splitter at the pharmacy for like $3 to quarter your pills and swallow them fairly normally instead of crushing them, which will improve in the taste department. Quartered, you should be able to get them in just fine and I don't see why they wouldn't be absorbed normally. As for the powder pills... you might be SOL there if they are big capsules and there's no equivalent tablet or liquid. My best advice there would to be to mix the powder into something with a really strong flavour. How do you feel about blue cheese dressing?

[Mangofish 1]

Yeah, I am on my 2nd fill and swallowing pills just fine tho I split them in half. I chew up some cheez-its and the shove the pills in. I can't swallow pills by drinking Water - a phobia I've had since I was a kid.

I do agree - mashing pills up then putting in applesauce in so gross!