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Just got home a little while ago from the hospital. Had my sleeve yesterday. Filled my prescriptions. They are pills. I thought I could crush them but it takes too much liquid to even begin to cut the taste. The meds are for pain and nausea. Any suggestions?

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Hummmmm strange, all my meds were liquid. I would see if your doctor could call in liquid prescriptions.

I was given Prevacid and Zofran after surgery. The Prevacid came in capsules that I had to take apart and the Zofran was a disintegrating tablet. They both tasted horrid and I was never so happy as when I could actually take pills whole again. I think one of the worst parts was that the bitter taste just lingered in my mouth for a while, nothing could get rid of it.. soo gross! My pain med was a liquid though, which was your standard icky cherry medicine flavor. I don't think any of it is going to taste good exactly, but you can definitely call your prescribing MD to see if you can get a different formulation. Either that or just tough it out for a couple weeks till you can swallow pills whole. (I recommend the former.)

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:) thanks for the help. I knew it was going to be tough in the beginning.

Call your surgeon and get new meds. I had liquid tylenol with codeine and a ppi that disolved under my tongue. When my husband had kidney stones and the pain made his nauseous his doctor gave him an anti nausea medication that disolved under his tongue. No need to suffer through the nasty taste of crushed pills that were meant to be swallowed.

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