Pills POSTOP?

[SouthernSleever 234]

I never even thought about pills postop. I have all my Vitamins in pill form and my Calcium is horse pill sized. Can I take those as soon as I'm out of surgery? Yikes!

[ninaboo 1]

Probably not.. my surgeon has me on chewables and the kind that dissolve in your mouth. You may even be able to crush them that's a possibility.

[disp4so 3]

my program stated not to take pills untill 1 month out, unless they are really small (dime size or smaller)

[TwoStepsBack 15]

I was allowed to start taking small tablets and capsules from day 5. But it seems that I was fast tracked in most things, was on mushies by day 4. I am now almost a month out and took some pain killers for a headache today and they were a bit bigger than what I've had so far and it was pretty uncomfortable. So I would say go with dissolvables if you can! Good luck x

[laylasmojo 10]

my Doc said that I have to crush anything I take for three months then I have to cut up in either half or 4 for the rst of my life because thay could cause obstruction

[juliarh 35]

I had to crush my pills for the first 2 weeks, and then found that I could swallow the smaller pills -- I still take chewable vitamins (the non-chewables are huge!) -- I think that if your pills are tiny, it might be ok to swallow after a couple of weeks, but as others have said, the larger pills will take a while.

[Estrellita 6]

I was allowed to swallow pills a week post op. I could only get down the small ones: pepcid and Vitamin B ones. The larger ones I had to crush and dissolve in the Protein drink or in yogurt. I tried swallowing a gel Multivitamin and it was awful!! The Calcium I actually chewed. I wouldn't try swallowing horse sized pills. No way!

However, three months post op, I can now swallow full all my vitamins!

[Kim 1]

My program said I could take pills as long as no bigger then asprin- My muti-vita is chewable, B-1, Biotin and prilosic is small I take whole my calcium citrate I have to crush because even when I cut in 4s seem to get stuck in my throat don't really understand why. Good luck!

[Jordien 30]

The pain pills I went home on were super tiny little pills, and I did fine on those. My two prescriptions are also pretty small, so I was okay. Vitamins I did chewables and now am doing gummies.< /p>