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I am not scheduled for surgery until February but am reading all of your stories so that I might avoid some of the pitfalls.

I take a lot of medications, mostly pills and some are huge. What is the best way to crush these in order to use them after surgery?

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I am not scheduled for surgery until February but am reading all of your stories so that I might avoid some of the pitfalls.

I take a lot of medications' date=' mostly pills and some are huge. What is the best way to crush these in order to use them after surgery?[/quote']

Some of your pills they may need to change into a liquid form if its a pill that can't be crushed..if so just purchase a pill crusher and it will be fine..its only for the first month

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I am not scheduled for surgery until February but am reading all of your stories so that I might avoid some of the pitfalls.

I take a lot of medications' date=' mostly pills and some are huge. What is the best way to crush these in order to use them after surgery?[/quote']

You can cut them down to the size of tic tacs

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Thank you. I was wondering how small they had to be. I do have a pill cutter.

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Thank you. I was wondering how small they had to be. I do have a pill cutter.

I don't know maybe it depends on your surgeon...cause I have some that are smaller than a tic tac and I still have to crush them..so your surgeons office will tell you all of that.good luck

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