Crushed pills

[3boysmama 26]

Has anyone found something to mix crushed pills in that will NOT make me gag? I'm not especially sensitive, but I'm having a hard time with this...

[Rita48 65]

Maybe try pudding? Put some pudding the add crushed meds than put more pudding on top.

[Navigating the Wilderness 824]

I prefer to shotgun the whole awful thing. It gets it over with quicker, but yeah, crushed pills suuuuuuuck.

[Sleeved3.29.17 19]

Applesauce hides the taste really well! I used it every day for my crushed pills!

[YeaMe 246]

Definitely sugar-free chocolate pudding. Applesauce doesn't do much to hide the taste.

[PatientEleventyBillion 851]

54 minutes ago, YeaMe said:

Definitely sugar-free chocolate pudding. Applesauce doesn't do much to hide the taste.

I have to agree with this.. it couldn't even hide the taste of Beneprotein Protein Powder, which is supposed to have no taste.

Honestly right out of postop I was taking chopped up pills with a couple sips of Apple juice, diluted with some Water. Try not to gulp because a few days out it's gonna likely hurt (unless they doped you up sufficiently on painkillers) like hell.. I had to chop metformin up in half and take it in halves and even then it was still very large but was able to get the stuff down. Personally I'd probably wanna retch if I tried taking my pills ground up.

Best of luck OP.

Edited May 10, 2017 by PatientEleventyBillion

[3boysmama 26]

Applesauce hides the taste really well! I used it every day for my crushed pills!

I can't have applesauce yet...had surgery monday

[FatPharm 21]

9 hours ago, 3boysmama said:

Has anyone found something to mix crushed pills in that will NOT make me gag? I'm not especially sensitive, but I'm having a hard time with this...

Why do you have to crush your pills? Is that a gastric bypass thing? I didn't believe my Nurse Practitioner at first until I tried it, but sleevers can swallow pills whole. I'm a pharmacist and we usually recommend applesauce or pudding.

[3boysmama 26]

I tried chocolate pudding, but cool whip is actually better.

[geets 44]

I'm hypertensive,diabetic,have high cholesterol and I'm bipolar. That's a lot of meds everyday. I've spoken to surgeon who told me all the meds come in liquid form and that was confirmed by my local pharmacy. I'm lucky because without the meds in liquid form I wouldn't be able to have a gastric bypass,I didn't want a gastric sleeve,only bypass can reverse diabetes. I live in England.

[Sleeved3.29.17 19]

On 5/10/2017 at 7:50 PM, 3boysmama said:

I can't have applesauce yet...had surgery monday

My doctor told me to use applesauce as of day 3 to take my pills. Never bothered me.

[3boysmama 26]

My doctor told me to use applesauce as of day 3 to take my pills. Never bothered me.

Well I tried applesauce too, makes me gag every time! I'm taking Prilosec, actigall, lisinopril and Wellbutrin.

[Juni7578 4]

Wellbutrin is AWFUL. I go through the gagging and almost throwing up routine in the am and pm. I know I can't go back to my small extended release pills which would be easy to swallow. I'm not sure if I can take the regular ones yet without crushing them. It's horrible though.