When I was in the hospital, they made me take my medication by crushing them--quite gross. I was wondering how long we need to do this or can I split them. It is way too much of a pain to take all the meds I am suppose to take plus the supplements if I have to crush them (yuck). Anyone else experience this post op adn/or for how long did you crush your meds? I am currently two weeks post op.

The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery says we can start swallowing pills whenever we can tolerate them.  I was swallowing pills in the hospital the same day I had surgery.

I was also swallowing my pills in the hospital and have had no problems with them. I just take one at a time instead of a whole handful. I did make the mistake and swallowed 3 at once and had no problems. 

even the large multivitamin and calcium tablets??  We were told in our pre-op class never to swallow a pill larger than an M&M....I would love not to have to crush them or buy liquids for forever.

I don't know why you'd need to crush them forever.  A few weeks after surgery I had to take potassium pills for a while and they were HUGE so I cut them in half, but otherwise I could swallow any size pill.

OMG!! I had mine crushed the 1st day I was allowed anything by mouth which was 2 days after surgery. They were H-O-R-R-I-D!! I take a slew of them, so I feel your pain on this one. For me and remember we're all different, I took chewable Muti Vitamins and Calcium for the first 3 months. Those things seemed daunting in size. Now I take Centrum Silver ( Big, but much smaller than the chewables) Maybe I'm a sicko, but I like my calcium, so I still do chewables. I hear Calcet is good from this forum, so I might be switching soon. As for the others, and a couple of them are Big Boys... I take with my protein shake in the morning. By nighttime the othes seem to go down well with my before bed water.

Good Luck!

Kat

I too took pills all through pre-op and post-op.  I never had a problem.  I just started taking the Citracal petites and as long as I take one at a time and put a minute between taking another one, they go down ok.  I never had to crush anything ...

Sounds like I should be able to at least cut them up.  So why are we unable to take them all together.......volume or our system's inability to process or absorb too many?  I have heard there are some vitamins and supplements you cannot take with others but if I had to take each med seperately, I would be swollowing pills all day long.