Quick survey-How long before taking pills again?

I'm wondering how long people were advised to wait before resuming taking pills again? (Like swallowing tylenol pills instead of drinking tylenol liquid?)

I took pills before I got out of the hospital.  I hated that liquid tylenol and got a script for pills.  And for other pills.

~Becky

Hmmm....thanks so much. I guess my surgeon is pretty conservative, he's telling me to crush my pills for the next several weeks and they taste absolutely terrible! Thanks also for your kind words the other day I felt loads and loads better after reading them. Feeling a little better day by day, just trying to remember to keep hydrated and move around as much as I can!

I don't know why you can't take pills.  You have a pyloris, not a stoma.  My surgeon is one of the most conservative there is and he prescribed pills for me and I took my own previous scripts and started in on the vites pretty soon as well.

And get more hydrated and move MORE than you can...  If you know what I mean.  When you think you can't drink another sip, drink 5 more.

And start working up to 30 grams of protein!

~Becky

Day 5.

 I never had that restriction. I had an oral pain pill around day 4, given to me at the hospital. 

No restriction. I was just told to cut the big ones in half.

--gina

I was swallowing my vitamins the day I came home from the hospital.  I never resorted to chewables or liquids.  Here's how you do it:

1) take a gulp of water and hold it in your mouth
2) tilt your head back
3) drop pills in
4) swallow it all together - you don't feel a thing.

At first, you can only do a pill at a time, but today I can drop 6 pills in at once.  I taught my son this techniique when he was only 4 years old, and never had to chase him with syrup on a spoon again.