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I was told to crush all my meds. The taste is horrible will this be forever? Also any suggestions on how to take crushed meds??

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Make sure that all your meds are safe to be crushed. There are extended release meds and pain meds that should NEVER be crushed!!!!

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My DR check before surgery. The time release they changed but, its so yucky taking them crushed. I wonder if cutting them in half will work

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My clinic told me that I should be able to swallow pills as soon as I am able to eat solid food (after the swelling from surgery has gone down), I have been crushing my meds and putting them in a syringe filled with white grape juice as it is fairly strong tasting and just squirt it in my mouth followed by a chaser of more white grape juice (sips), I have found this has worked best. I also went to the pharmacy and got chew-able forms of gravol, gas-x and even children's chew-able advil, you have to chew three to five pills, but it sure tastes better then crushing the adult doses. Hope this helps!

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I did the same thing, sorta. I used to crush my pills, mix it in a spoon of yogurt, down it and real quick, have a few more spoons of yogurt. The idea-to get that spoonful down ASAP and do a yogurt chaser ASAP.

Good luck, it won't be forever!

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Didn't crush any of my pills and I was fine. Took them with juice or applesauce so they went down easier.

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