30+minute wait vs. taking meds with food?

 I would love to hear how some of you handle having to wait 30+ minutes before drinking after eating along with needing to take your meds with food.  I try to take as small a sip as possible.  However, because I’m taking so many pills now, between my supplements and other meds for my arthritis, I still feel like I’m taking in too many liquids right after I eat.  How do you handle this dilemma?

Take your pills right before you eat?  Or take a couple small bites of food, take your pills with the least amount of water possible, then finish eating.  That's what I would do.

 I take mine right before I eat.

Thanks guys! I'm so use to taking them after I eat, I guess I'll to get use to a new routine.

I take mine before I eat too!

I usually take mine right before I eat.

 I've been on six different rounds of medication/antibiotics since surgery in July between infections/abcess and colds. With the ones I've taken the "with food" has only been to ease stomach upset and not to aid in their absorption. I wait the 30 minutes after eating to take them. Surely the food I consumed is to a degree, still in my pouch. I haven't felt ill thus far. 

Just to add so there's no confusion as to the effectiveness of the medications since having surgery, I am on a drug for my asthma that suppresses by immune system so healing/colds take a very long time to leave my system...ah, what one does to breathe. LOL

Yep, take the meds right before you eat.

Lora