Can I swallow pills yet?

[EmmyJ 184]

I'm sure this is a question best suited to the surgeon, but since it's Sunday, I can't call the office until tomorrow, so I'm asking here first I'm having an asthma exacerbation right now and I went to the urgent care, where they prescribed prednisone for 8 days. While these pills can be crushed, they have an absolutely vile taste, and it's much less disgusting to swallow them whole. I'm about six and a half weeks out from my sleeve. Do you think it's okay to just swallow them at this point?

[_Kate_ 2,224]

Many people here have stated that they have taken tablets soon after surgery. I started one week post op with my tablets. Can you split them if they are the larger kind of tablet and did you ask when you were prescribed them?

Kate

[EmmyJ 184]

The doctor at the urgent care informed me that I can crush them and mix them into pudding/applesauce if I need to, so I suppose they can be split, although they aren't very big. She couldn't offer any insight as to whether swallowing them would be appropriate, unfortunately I decided I would crush them today (still very yucky, even in pudding LOL) and call the surgeon tomorrow to see what they say. Thanks!

[sleevinpops 303]

I was allowed to swallow pills as long as they were the size of a small m&m, anything bigger I would split then take. You should be ok

[waringbeth95 4]

I had surgery on March 14,. They told me not allow to swallow pills for a month.

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[waringbeth95 4]

They told me a month

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[OutsideMatchInside 10,166]

I was swallowing pulls with in 24 hours after surgery.

[clc9 644]

Ask your doctor. I can swallow anything around the size of a baby aspirin, but today at my 5 week appt he said to wait for 3 months before I switched to regular tablet Vitamins (I was bitching about how awful the chewables are!)