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RiaR

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RiaR    30

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Did anyone stop taking their medication a few days before their surgery ? When did you start taking them ? My dr told me to stop taking mine a few days before surgery. Most of the medication I take are capsules so just wondering how this affects you post op. Swallowing big capsules.

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Bari_KS    499

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Usually medications/supplements promoting blood clotting and bleeding during or after surgery are stopped 2-3 weeks before surgery. These include low dose aspirin, Multivitamins containing Vitamins A, E, D, K, Iron. Also blood thinners like warfarin.

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S@ssen@ch    745

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It's normal for a doctor to have you stop taking any medications a few days before surgery if they could cause increased post operative bleeding. That includes supplements like vitamins/herbs/etc.

After surgery, you may not be able to tolerate large pills. I was given pain medications as a capsule while I was still in the hospital. When I objected because I was concerned, the nurses and the doctor had no worries about a capsule.

If you're concerned and the medication in the capsule isn't time released, you can open the capsule and sprinkle it in food/drink and take it that way after your surgery until you feel you're healed enough to resume taking the capsule.

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Good Luck on your journey!

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There was a list of medications that you had to stop taking before surgery, but none of my medications were on that list. Post-op, when I got home from the hospital on Day #3 I was able to swallow my pills and capsules just fine.

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RiaR    30

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Usually medications/supplements promoting blood clotting and bleeding during or after surgery are stopped 2-3 weeks before surgery. These include low dose aspirin, multivitamins containing Vitamins A, E, D, K, Iron. Also blood thinners like warfarin.

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Okay so I am on iron supplements, multivitamins as well as B12. Guess I will have to discuss this with the surgeon. He never mentioned this. I guess I'm just really scared, as my date for surgery is approaching soon.

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AggiG    176

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I had to completely stop a Water pill, fish oil.

I am now taking all the rest of my medications everyday.

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Yeah they took my Lasix and Potassium Chloride away because I am too much an dehyration risk. Made me stop Vitamins A and D but I'm back on D again and had to start Ferrocite, couldn't take over counter ones, those are Sulfate and RnYs don't have enough acid to use them so Ferrocite is a Fumerate salt of Iron.< /p>

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AggiG    176

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7 hours ago, RiaR said:

How far along into post op did you start talking all your meds again ?

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I started as soon as I got home.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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