Crushed vs Whole Pills

[jm726 27]

I was told I could start taking my pills whole at 6 weeks, which will be next Monday. Any advice or thoughts? Were you able to just start taking them whole no problem?

[Bufflehead 6,358]

I was taking whole pills with no problem within a couple hours of surgery. Unless they are giant pills like Calcium or Vitamins, I doubt you'll have any trouble at all. I've never been fond of giant pills and surgery didn't exactly help, so I've stuck with chewable vitamins and Citracal Petites for calcium.

[liannatx 897]

I was taking whole pills from the day I was released from the hospital. My pain meds and acid blocker were even pills.

[twittymilk 51]

I'm 4 weeks out today and I've been taking my big ole Calcium horse pills with no problems since last week. I've been taking the smaller pills whole 4th day after surgery. Crushed pills are gross.

[jm726 27]

They're pretty small, nothing to large. Do ya'll take them all at on e or space them out? Sorry, for all the questions! I really appreciate the advice!

[Bethson 6]

My program also says crush everything until six weeks out.

[Bufflehead 6,358]

I only ever spaced pills out if they needed to be for the drugs or Vitamins to work effectively. For example, I spaced out my Iron supplements and omeprazole by at least 3 hours because PPI's can reduce the absorption of iron. Things like that.

[NikkiDoc 312]

I was swallowing small pills the last day in the hospital (day 3) and medium sized pills after that (day 4).

*****Please check with your pharmacist before you take any crushed or dissolved pills. Anything that is an extended release should not be crushed. You probably should not crush anything that is buffered or enteric coated as that also may change the efficacy.