How long after surgery could you stop crushing up your pills and just swallow them? Right now I'm on a ton of post-op medication 2 are liquid, one gel that I swallow, and 3 that I have to crush up twice a day and put into something. The liquid and swallow ones go down just fine and are okay but the ones that I have to crush up are making me sick... not the pill themselves but the taste that I get from everything I put them in. It tastes like I am sucking on a penny and the iron taste stays in my mouth for hours. Plus the smell of just crushing them up, everything about it makes me just nauseated and I want to stop them so so badly. I know I will eventually take a chew-able or gummy multivitamin and there are chew-able calcium that I can have but how far out from surgery are you allowed to take those? I am in my second week of post-op right now.

I am one month out from surgery and my doctors still has not cleared me to swallow regular pills.

I had to crush my pills for two weeks.

It was six weeks for me. Try taking with apple sauce and mixing some Splenda in. This helped me when I was taking bitter yucky Tylenol.

I am crushing up a calcium and a multivitamin and an iron supplement. I have tried mixing them into EVERYTHING I can think of.

It turns everything black and tastes like I am eating coins. Bleghhh. I am just hoping to be able to switch to a chew-able that will be

better.

My doc let me take two flinstones complete chewable with iron. I didn't do calcium until six weeks when I could swallow. I've all docs seem to have different practices. It sounds pretty awful. It does get better, I promise.

Aww yay there is hope! haha I have an appointment on Tuesday so hopefully I can ask him about the flinstones with iron, or at least get a general idea of when I can start taking them.

It really depends on the person. I was able to swallow pills 3 days after surgery. I've been on a ton of pills each day for years so maybe that has something to do with it? I really don't know but it seems to very different for everyone judging by what I've read.

be very careful what meds you crush. time release meds cannot be crush, it will cause a shock to your system. i swallowed hole pills,an big ones from day1 after surgery

My doctor made me crush until 6 weeks. I also got sick from some of the crushed pills. The best thing for me was to just throw in toward the back of my throat and chase it with water. I always had a banana popsicle to get the yuck taste out of my mouth.

Thank you!! I was just going to write a post about this very same topic.

I am counting my blessings on this, I was just sleeved on Tuesday. Wednesday morning when I was dying for a sip of water the nurse brings me 5 . . . yes, 5 Vit. D pills. (I take 1 5000 iu Vit. D a day) I wasn't sure I could get them down, but thought what the heck, I had been able to swallow a handful in the past. So I did it one at a time slowly and it was fine. Now, I can take the round form of Tylenol with no problem, I tried the chewable, but the taste is nasty!

So far, I have not had any trouble swallowing anything. I sometimes forget I was sleeved and will take too big a gulp of water, then it gets stuck for a second and I do my "labor breathing" to get me through.

Hang in there, everyone is different, it will get better!

Had surgery in Mexico. Doctor never mentioned crushing pills. I've been taken them whole since day one.