taking pills

I just had the  Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on 10/28.  I am getting around okay, but energy still not completely up to par.  I had a reaction to the pain meds they gave me, and have hives all over.  Yuck!  Day by day I am getting better.  My question is about medication.  I am in the pureed phase of diet.  Opening up a capsule or crushing it to eat with my "meal" is so nasty!  Does anyone have a trick about taking these powder meds better?  (I have two meds that must be crushed since no liquid exists for them).
So far I have lost 20 lbs in two weeks.  YEAH!

Call your surgeon's office.  They let me start taking prevacid capsuls at about 2 weeks.

susna

Even though I was on a 2 week Post-Op liquid diet, my doc allowed me to take a bit of applesauce or plain/unflavored yogurt to swallow those nasty bitter pills.  I mixed the two together.  About 1 t applesauce, all of the powder from what ever pills I would normally take at the same time, then about 1 t. yogurt on the top.  Mix thoroughly,  Eat as quickly as you can (without making yourself sick).  Then drink, drink, drink.  Don't drink so much as to make yourself ill, just enough to get the nasty taste gone.

I don't do it with my food, because I don't want my food to taste nasty.  (I just began pureed yesterday [a little early, per the Nutritionist, because I have had diarreah for 9 days].)

Good Luck and God Bless,

~Kathi