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I was banded Monday, and this morning was my first time to crush and take the unrelated pills that I need to take. What a horrible taste! I tried them in some fruit juice and it was awful! Are there any tricks that you know out there?????

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I thankfully don't take prescription medicine, but on occasion if I have to take a pill rather than crushing it, I chop it into small pieces using the blade in the pill crusher. For a pill the size of an aspirin, I'll cut it into 4 pieces.

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All the meds I take can be crushed so crushed they are. I take them on a tablespoon and put a little Water on the spoon. I get it to a paste like and take it with a couple sips of coffee. Luckily my pills don't seem to have a aftertaste, just gritty. I've also tried taking them with my activia, but find the spoon method best for me.

My doctor wants all meds crushed forever so I try to comply. I don't want to get stuck on a pill.

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I know at my grandmothers nursing home, they crush all her meds and mix them with applesauce or yogurt and she will take it, any other way, she spits it out. So, it must work. :peep:

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I don't have any prescription meds, so that makes my life a little easier.

For pain I take liquid tylenol. For sinus pain I take liquid tylenol with a sidekick of liquid benadryll.

I did get a preventative liquid anti-nausea from my PCP to keep on hand, just in case.

Before I found the liquid tylenol I tried mashing them into appleasuce. Uh-uh. No way, no how. Nastyyy.

I tried to get the liquid out of a stool softener capsule once, and mix it into apple juice. After about 4 hours when my mouth and throat quit burning, it was another 2 or 3 before feeling came back. So I learned that t'was not one of my better ideas.

Oh yeah - the chewable Tylenol, assuming that's the "On the Go" or whatever it's called, that's supposed to be a mint flavored big huge mother of a pill. Tried those last week while on vacation. Probably the 4th or 5th grossest thing I've ever "eaten". The first few chews are ok because it's kind of a weird subtle mint. Every chew after that sucks money butts because it's this nasty bitter poo that someone tried to make taste like mint.

From now on I'll just make the extra baggage room for my trusty bottle of liquid tylenol. Cherry is the better of the two flavors, IMO. The vanilla tastes more like -- not vanilla.< /p>

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I take 9 pills in the AM, one in the afternoon and 4 at night. I take a bite of a pretzel stick and chew it up and, right before I swallow, I put the pill in and down it goes. Large ones I do solo and smaller ones I do 3 at a time. I've never had a problem.

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