Any one know how long b4 I can start taking vitamins after surgery?

Anything liquid you should be able to take when you get home. I found Centrum liquid at Wal-Mart. It's more expensive than pills, but it's only for a few weeks. There are also some liquid calciums that are a bit on the thick side, but will mix well with a couple of ounces of juice to help them go down easier. As far as pills, check with your Dr.

you can take gummy vitamins by day 3....if you can manage to tolerate them....just suck on them until they are disolved.

Thank you

I started taking my chewables the day after I got home on day 6. But, I also have other medication I had to start up again while still in the hospital....although I did cut one in 1/2 for a few days I never had any trouble getting them down.

Still will take chewable Vitamins for a while though because those do tend to be larger if in pill form.

Pills are many times too large, even several weeks post-op. So if you don't have gummies or liquid, what I've done is mill them in my coffee grinder. I take a multiple, calicum and a B-complex. I also take prescription meds and I just grind them all and add it to a tablespoon SF applesauce. Goes down smooth and you don't have to worry about them not being absorbed into your system.

I was told to wait 2 weeks when I started purees. Some chewies are hard on a new tummy.

My doctor told me to start at 2 weeks and to have Flinstone Chewables.

I ordered a chewable multivitamin by O-Purity and it was gigantic! Didn't taste that great either. Tried One A Day gummies today (almost 2 weeks post-op), chewed them pretty well and they went down okay.