Crushing Up Pills

[stephsee 11]

How long after surgery could you stop crushing up your pills and just swallow them? Right now I'm on a ton of post-op medication 2 are liquid, one gel that I swallow, and 3 that I have to crush up twice a day and put into something. The liquid and swallow ones go down just fine and are okay but the ones that I have to crush up are making me sick... not the pill themselves but the taste that I get from everything I put them in. It tastes like I am sucking on a penny and the Iron taste stays in my mouth for hours. Plus the smell of just crushing them up, everything about it makes me just nauseated and I want to stop them so so badly. I know I will eventually take a chew-able or Gummy Multivitamin and there are chew-able Calcium that I can have but how far out from surgery are you allowed to take those? I am in my second week of post-op right now.

[KLNorrod 7]

I am one month out from surgery and my doctors still has not cleared me to swallow regular pills.< /p>

[p77tmey 15]

I had to crush my pills for two weeks.

[Almostthere34 128]

It was six weeks for me. Try taking with apple sauce and mixing some Splenda in. This helped me when I was taking bitter yucky Tylenol.

[stephsee 11]

I am crushing up a Calcium and a multivitamin and an Iron supplement. I have tried mixing them into EVERYTHING I can think of.

It turns everything black and tastes like I am eating coins. Bleghhh. I am just hoping to be able to switch to a chew-able that will be

better.

[Almostthere34 128]

My doc let me take two Flinstones complete chewable with Iron. I didn't do Calcium until six weeks when I could swallow. I've all docs seem to have different practices. It sounds pretty awful. It does get better, I promise.

[stephsee 11]

Aww yay there is hope! haha I have an appointment on Tuesday so hopefully I can ask him about the Flinstones with Iron, or at least get a general idea of when I can start taking them.

[IsB 209]

It really depends on the person. I was able to swallow pills 3 days after surgery. I've been on a ton of pills each day for years so maybe that has something to do with it? I really don't know but it seems to very different for everyone judging by what I've read.

[saddie 21]

be very careful what meds you crush. time release meds cannot be crush, it will cause a shock to your system. i swallowed hole pills, an big ones from day1 after surgery

[JANNCS 3]

My doctor made me crush until 6 weeks. I also got sick from some of the crushed pills. The best thing for me was to just throw in toward the back of my throat and chase it with Water. I always had a banana popsicle to get the yuck taste out of my mouth.

[Tink22-sleeve 528]

Thank you!! I was just going to write a post about this very same topic.

[crickee 85]

I am counting my blessings on this, I was just sleeved on Tuesday. Wednesday morning when I was dying for a sip of Water the nurse brings me 5 . . . yes, 5 Vit. D pills. (I take 1 5000 iu Vit. D a day) I wasn't sure I could get them down, but thought what the heck, I had been able to swallow a handful in the past. So I did it one at a time slowly and it was fine. Now, I can take the round form of Tylenol with no problem, I tried the chewable, but the taste is nasty!

So far, I have not had any trouble swallowing anything. I sometimes forget I was sleeved and will take too big a gulp of water, then it gets stuck for a second and I do my "labor breathing" to get me through.

Hang in there, everyone is different, it will get better!

[Territravel 217]

Had surgery in Mexico. Doctor never mentioned crushing pills. I've been taken them whole since day one.