Swallowing whole small pills right after surgery

[annanay1 14]

My dr said that I will be able to swallow any small pills that I take rught after surgery. I had surgery thursday and came home today. I am supposed to start my eloquis pills tonight but am so scared to try because drinking Water and other liquids still feels yucky.

[Orchids&Dragons 9,046]

I was able to take my pills without a problem. Unless you're experiencing a lot of pain while drinking Water, you should do all right. Just take them one at a time with as large a sip of water as you can manage.

[annanay1 14]

Ok thank you so

much I will try🙏🏻

[Orchids&Dragons 9,046]

1 minute ago, annanay1 said:

Ok thank you so

much I will try🙏🏻

Note: I still said "sip"

[abefroman329 704]

Shouldn’t be a problem, I was taking small pills with sips of Water when I was still in the hospital.

[Creekimp13 5,838]

My clinic advised us to crush our pills up and sprinkle them on a spoonful of sugar free Cool Whip. Went down very easy.

[madscientistmommy 124]

Space them out too! I tried to take three pills 5 min apart and it was not good! Got stuck!

[Ylime 453]

On 06/09/2018 at 19:49, Creekimp13 said:

My clinic advised us to crush our pills up and sprinkle them on a spoonful of sugar free Cool Whip. Went down very easy.

Ditto to this. My surgeon suggested I crush them up until I feel comfortable enough to swallow them. I changed all my extended release meds to regular in preparation for this. I’m quite looking forward to taking my meds via Sugar Free Chocolate pudding. 😀

[Orchids&Dragons 9,046]

13 hours ago, annanay1 said:

Ok thank you so

much I will try🙏🏻

Did you do all right?

[t1018ross 116]

My surgeon also told me to crush my meds. He said to do this until 6 weeks. One more week of crushing, I'm so tired of it! Much easier to just swallow with some Water.

[bdroubay 13]

I had the sleeve. I was told that any pill the size of a regular M&M or smaller was fine to take. Anything bigger, crush it or cut it in half.