How Do You Take All Your Meds After Surgery???

I am on about 8 different meds right now, some are rather large pills. After surgery, how do you get all this down? I have to drink water to get them all down. I am concerned about this. I am hopeful that after I lose some of the weight, I will be off most of these meds. Blessings to all and thank you for your replies!!

Hi there Janice, Before surgery, I was on about 6 different medicines, 2 of which were for my high blood pressure. The night of surgery my blood pressure had dropped and stabilized so much that they took me off of one of them before I left the hospital 2 days later, and cut down the dosage on my other one! I also got to stop taking my acid reflux medicine, which was a horse pill lol Hopefully you will get the same luck with not having to take all those meds after surgery, but the best thing to do is to ask your doctor about this, especially before you are released from the hospital. They should let you know by then if you even need them or not, depending on what they are. I wish you luck! tiff

Hi Janice, I wasn't on alot of meds before surgery, but I did have to take Actigal right after. It was a capsule so I just put the powder on my tongue and swallowed it with water for the first 8 weeks then I was cleared to swallow pills. I have heard of some folks on here taking pills as soon as they got home though so everyone is different, But if anything you could just cut them in half and take them that way. It gets much easier in time, Now I can swallow 2-3 at a time. Good luck to ya!

Hey Janice, my doctor gave me a pill crusher. I was able to put pieces in sf jello and then pudding. It all depends on your diet. Make sure to check with your doctor. I didn't have a problem but I too was taken off 2 blood pressure pills, my water pill. So I came out really good on that deal. I still don't take BP medicine. I was on it for over 10 years. Good luck Jane

Hi! My surgeon allows us to take pills on the second day after surgery. They only do IV meds till the next morning. Then they put you on pain pills so that they have a day in the hospital to be sure that your pain will be controlable using pills only. We also took whatever regular meds we needed by pill form. When I went home from the hospital, my surgeon told me to continue to take both blood pressure pills, my thyroid pill, my pain pills he gave me, and also Prevacid pills he prescribed for me. I also continued to take my Singulair and now take vitamins and stool softeners. The multi-vitamin and the calcium citrate are BIG pills and I have no trouble taking them with a mouth full of liquid. I have never had a pill get stuck as long as I take it with a lot of liquid. I don't take them all in one big handful/gulp like I used to, but I still take pills! I no longer need the blood pressure meds BTW. Hugs, Lea

I had to break mine up and take them all day. Every few minutes I would take a sip of liquid and one of thelittle chunks of a pill. Took ALLLLLL day!! But it didn't last long. I was soon able to take my smaller pills whole. hang in there.

I took a lot of pills too. Two weeks after the surgery, my blood sugars dropped, so I was taken off of the injectable insulin and one of the oral meds. I still take 3 1/2 pills plus a vitamin. I break the pills in half and drink a full glass of water. Nothing has ever gotten stuck. Karen in Kentucky