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Pills!?

I'm 3 days postop and I am struggling with my medication. Can't get the crushed meds down at all. Suggestions welcome!!

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What meds are you taking? My post op pain meds were available in liquid form.

Chocolate pudding. My doctor considers it a liquid and it masks a lot of the medicine taste, not all, but a lot. It made my horrible bitter medicine acceptable.

Taking pills post op was the only time my nut recommended drinking juice so I mixed mine with about 1/4-1/8 cup of apple or grape juice. The sweetness of the juice camouflaged the bad taste of the pills.

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My pain meds r liquid but my others r crushed. I gag so easy this is a true concern. I will try whatever.

I know there are pill sprays called pill glide. Maybe those would still work with powder? I think they're fruit flavored.

I've switched all my medicine to liquids and oral disintegrating tablets right now. They taste like crap, even after having the pharmacy flavor them, but I take them in sips and chase them with Water and it's at least manageable now. Do you mix the crushed tablets with anything? Some of them can be mixed and that would probably help a little.

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I've tried applesauce, smoothie, yogurt and even tried chasing it with a piece of chocolate. NO WAY, just makes me hurl. Tomorrow I'm ordering all liquids. Spray? That's interesting, I'll check it out, thanks!

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