How to take bad tasting medicine?

[hirskobrn 0]

First day home from the hospital after my VSG. I have several medications to take for blood pressure, depression, etc . A total of 6 pills once a day and 2 later on. What did you use to disquise the taste? I tried apple sauce and chocolate sugar free pudding. Almost lost it on both of them. Need some suggestions please.

[DebSee 1]

First day home from the hospital after my VSG. I have several medications to take for blood pressure, depression, etc . A total of 6 pills once a day and 2 later on. What did you use to disquise the taste? I tried apple sauce and chocolate sugar free pudding. Almost lost it on both of them. Need some suggestions please.

Welcome home and welcome to the losers' bench!

One of my tablets would make a horse's eyes Water. I'm sure more experienced sleevers will respond, however, I find I can take any tablet or capsule of almost any size provided I take it with a mouthful of SlimFast. I actually have a bottle of SlimFast solely for taking my tablets. One shake bottle me a day and after tablet times, I just pop it back in the fridge again until I need it.

[jillw8 22]

I hated the taste of my capsules mixed with anything. I take my depression capsule, title my head back, open it above my open mouth and let it fall onto tongue. I then take a quick swig of Water. makes it better than with mixing it!

[Caliblonde 25]

I had to take liquid potassium for a few days when I was about 8 weeks out. I was gagging on every single sip. I ended up using low sugar grape juice as a chaser and that seemed to cleanse my palate of the nasty taste. It might work for pills.< /p>

[Thomas CPA 496]

Try drinking low cal cranberry juice or apple juice when taking the pills

[Sassygirl06 962]

i have to hand out medications to mental patients that cheak their meds all the time. i have to crush them up and float them in punch. you can try doing one of them at a time in a little shot cup mixed in some crystal light....a strong flavor, and not diluted all the way. take a break in between to take away the gag responce. also to get them to disolve all the way you can make the crystal light warm first...if you can manage to drink it warm. after a few weeks of being sleeved you can start taking the meds whole again...as long as you can handle it. make sure to try one of them at a time at first to see how your tummy will react to it. good luck to you

[hirskobrn 0]

Thank you all for the options! I will try them today and see if anything seems to help. It certainly can't be worse!

[GonnaLoseIt 33]

Hello, I was diagnosed with pnuemonia 3 days post op and the medicine I had to take for that was the worst. The only way I could explain it to family was, if robots had bowel movements, i just drank it. It got so bad after a couple days that I was vomitting. I asked my nutritionist and they told me I could take the pill cut into 4 pieces. I just put a sip of Water in my mouth, tilt my head back drop the quarter pill in and swallow immediately. Maybe you could see if you could take the pills in pieces. Made my life much easier.

Thank you all for the options! I will try them today and see if anything seems to help. It certainly can't be worse!

[Penpen 28]

Grape juice! It has such a strong taste that it covers up almost all bad tasting medicine. This is what I used the first 2 months and I did it so much that now the thought of grape juice makes me want to gag. lol But it definitely served a very important purpose.