I'm not banded yet but I'm curious if you can still take pills. I know most stuff you can get in liquid form, but what about birth control pills? They're tiny...but can u still take them? :glare:

Every pill I've taken has gone down fine. I had some trouble with a large antibiotic I had to be on but it just felt 'stuck' for a few minutes after I took it. Water helps because it dissolves the pill. A lot of people on this site suggest taking pills with warm water. Anyway, it isn't a big issue for me.

I can - they dont block me up or cause trouble. But I hate taking big pills, I'm a real baby with them.

I take chewable multi Vitamin and Iron, cant bear the taste, texture of a huge vitamin pill. I can *just* manage the fish oil capsules, but I tend to break them open and squirt the oil into some orange juice, so all I have to take is a glucosamine pill.

Ergh. But its nothing to do with the band. And small things like paracetamol capsules or a birth control pill (if I took them) I'd have no trouble with at all.

My pills go down fine too. They say that the size of an M&M is perfect. That is the biggest pill I take.

I do fine with capsules. I take a B complex, pomegranate, and grape seed extract. I do a chewable vitamin that tastes pretty good. The only thing I have issues with is the glucosamine. I break it in half and STILL feel like it's going to rip apart my insides. I have to fight to not PB it. But those are pretty big. A tiny pill like a BCP would not be a problem, at all. I also take Tylenol when necessary and can down 3 of those at a time and not even notice them.

I am 8 days post op and have been taking my BCP since 2 days post op without a problem. (I skipped the day of and day after surgery because I was a little too hesitant to try). I figure if it is okay, now, it will be fine going forward.

I take over 15 pills a day. Sometimes if I am tight I crush them up, and take them with water. It tasted gross at the beginning but like anything else you get used to it. (Please check with your doctor before you crush pills, because some can NOT be crushed.)

I take lots of different sized pills every day, my multivitam is like a horse pill and have never had a problem.