Can anyone plz respond I have been told by my doctors nurse I must crush my pills forever so they will be properly absorbed. This is hard to do so I don't always take my meds. The taste is horrible . A friend who had gastric bypass b4 me said her doctor said only crush for 1st month to let pouch heal then u can take them normally? What do all u think?

Thanks! I cut the pills in half take half and wait a couple of minutes and take the other half. Capsule pills I mix with sf pudding and take.

My doctor said anything bigger than an m&m I should cut in half. Anything in a gel coating should go down just fine. I cut the potassium in half, pharmacy said I will not get the full benefit of it because it is time released but I am okay with that. Most of my Vitamins are chewable from baractic advantage. Are you able to email your doctor or the nut ironist? just recon firm.

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I have an appt. tomorrow w/the nut. & rn I'm going to mention it again.

Good luck with appt. today.

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if you're continue to take your meds crushed, add them to applesauce. It will mask the bitter taste.

I have been taking pills from day one, surgeon said to not take time release pill though because you won't get the full effect.

I had to break open my capsule and add it to water the first two weeks. Then could take them whole. The Omeprazol are small so that's tolerable. But the actigal are big and they tend to be very uncomfortable going down! Thinking I might go back to breaking them apart and taking them! But definatley should be doing what the doctor orders!

Asked my Dr. Yesterday & he said small pills I can take whole larger ones break in half

I had a horrible experience with pills... Three days after my surg a pill was not dissolving in my new stomach and was blocking everything from going down. I could not tolerate any food or liquid... I would vomit up foam all the time. Finally my doctor decided to do an endoscopy thinking it was stenosis to find the pill stuck. I had to try crushing or breaking pills in half, but that still was scary. I decided to change all my medications to liquid form. It doesn't taste the greatest but I know that it's better than taking a pill that might get stuck.

I still don't do well w/pills. :-p

We are all different. Some have no problem digesting pills while others can't tolerate them.

I prefer liquid form over pill. Though, I don't have much problems with pills, you never know what one pill one sudden day could do. I ain't that confident.

If that medication can be switched to liquid version, you better believe it, I will not refuse it. In fact, I make sure to always ask my surgeon/RN or the RX before they fill/refill my prescription.