Hello everyone

I'm 18 days post op. just wondering, when can I stop crushing pills ? My doctor had me crushing my prescribed Vitamin meds. Just wondering when I can stop.. It's getting annoying and it taste really bad.

Ask your doctor. Only he can answer that.

Ask your doctor. Only he can answer that.

Figured maybe someone else was on the same boat as me. Thanks anyway

Ask your doctor. It varies by surgeon.

You might ask your pharmacy if that script is available in liquid form. My doctor said no pills bigger than a pencil eraser, but my band isn't that restrictive.... yet.

i still crush my nighttime need sometime sleep med

and take liquid cvs brand tylenol but the best one to ask is your dr

and i agree with lab and mis and chz on that part

granted some has no problems what so ever so if you take them, be careful

I can break mine in half and they will go down but m y surgeon and his PA said "absolutely positively nothing larger than a baby aspirin!"

So I crush'em.

My wife takes a very large number of pills, and she had WLS after I decided to have my surgery. She would have had the lapband, but due to the larger number of medications she had to take, our surgeon strongly favored VSG over the lap band. He mentioned that some of his lapband patients were filling up on pills!!!!

Hello everyone

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You have prescribed Vitamins? My doctor just asked me to use kids vits, either chewable or gummies. All the meds I have are like that, antiacid, vits, Calcium and I just started Biotin - will try anything to make sure I lose the least amount of hair, lol. Ask him if gummies or chewables are ok. Not sure why you have prescription ones, maybe because you need a higher concentration or for the Iron, but mine have iron. I got them at walmart, they are called active kids complete, and you only need one according to the instructions.

my dr said anything bigger than a tictac has to be crushed...i take a chewable multi vitamin and chewable calcium

Wow, I can't believe this because I'm not having a problem swallowing any pills. Then again, I feel no restriction yet. I crushed my pills for a month after surgery (12/28/12), I started taking a chewable multi vitamin from the. Get go but I take 5 pills a day and they are pretty big in size. I'm hoping there is nothing wrong with me because I have no problem swallowing pills.

The biggest pill I've taken is a full size Vicodin but maybe it's just me.