I was Sleeved on 10-15-12 and have been doing really good. I am currently crushing my blood pressure medication in order to take it, but lord that is just not tasty at all and a pain in the butt!

How long before I should feel comfortable taking small pills with a sip of Water?

Advice is greatly appreciated

CG

I was allowed to take pills right away , they said if it will fit in your nose it will go down your sleeve , but of course everyone's dr is diff . I started day after surgery , they every have me pills in hosp .. I never had any trouble

I am 2 weeks post op - my doctor gave me acid blocker meds that are little balls in a foil package that I take each day. There's no taste so that's okay. I also take Effexor that's in a honkin' giant orange capsule, also filled with little balls. I open it and shake the balls into my mouth and swallow them. That's okay, too.

Now my Blood Pressure medicine is a different story - it is a white tablet, but the trick is that it is extended release, so it can't be crushed. My blood pressure started going up after surgery, so I said to heck with it - I take it whole. I also take Ambien to sleep at night, and I take them whole as well. So far, no problems. I was sleeved in Mexico so I can't just go to the doc if anything goes wrong, and I know that I might be taking a chance, but my high BP was giving me hellacious headaches so it was either one BP pill or two headache pills. I chose the BP pill.

Whatever you decide to do, don't do it because I am doing it - do what you feel is best for you. Good Luck!

Ive been taking Tylenol extra strength rapid release caplets. They are pretty small and I can get both down together with one sip of Crystal Lite. Today I took a vicodin which is pretty big, Tylenol wasn't cutting through the pain I started having Monday after returning to work when my body wasn't ready. (Surgeon approved, of course.) I strained my stomach muscles which are still healing from sleeve and hernia repair 2 weeks ago today. I hope I'm feeling better to go back on Monday-I miss work! Good luck and don't worry about taking pills, I'm sure you'll be fine -just don't take too much drink with them to swallow!

My dr gave me sleeping pill and acid pill back. I am 2 weeks post -op, but they are small pills. He told me chewable or melts was best