What drugs are you taking?

(deactivated member)
on 12/26/08 4:25 pm - Mt Pleasant, IA
I was sent home from my surgery with instructions for:
1 chewable vitamin a day
1 baby aspirin
1 prilosec 2 times a day
Liquid Tylenol w/codeine as needed per pain
I was told not to start my calcium citrate until after my post op which isn't until 01/03

jemma28
on 12/26/08 7:49 pm - Houston, TX
2 chewable multi vitamins
Tums

My surgeon reccomends tums but I know they aren't the best thing for us so I am ordering some calcium citrate.  plus I just can't chew the tums....they make me gag.

Jill
KatieB2003
on 12/26/08 9:27 pm - Garrettsville, OH
2 flintstones at breakfast
tums at lunch and dinner
pepcid & actigall - haven't actually filled these  yet but they told me I need
and I'm still taking the pain meds

Meet the Surgeon Aug 1, 2011 .... hopefully the surgeons office is right and everything will go fast and I'll have surgery later this month. 

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Laffingbead
on 12/26/08 10:12 pm - Montgomery, IL
I am using Ultram (a pain killer) at least once a day.  I have to cru**** and mix it with a liquid.

I am giving myself 3 heparin shots a day (I don't like that at all)

Two chewable children's mullti vitamins

one chewable b complex

one chewable Tums (for calcium) in berry flavor that is super-concentrated.

I have not needed the patch to control queasiness.
Ilse
5'6"  380(HW)/316(First visit)230.2(Current)/154(goal)

JenniferC
on 12/26/08 10:45 pm - bangor, ME
Im taking one Chewable
1 Prevacid
And Oxycodone as needed
Same thing for calcium for me..
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Julie G.
on 12/26/08 10:48 pm
I am taking 2 children's complete chewable vitamins in the morning.

1 Pepcid AC Chewable twice a day

Roxicet for pain (I'm, attempting today with no pain meds... we'll see how it goes)

I also have a patch for blood pressure

I am told I won't start the B12, Calcium and Ursodol (I still have my gall bladder****il after 6 weeks.  I Need to check on that, though, cuz I'm wondering if I"m wrong about one of those.
Julie G.
on 12/26/08 10:53 pm
Okay, so I was worried and checked.  lol

The Ursodol will start on day 11 crushed until six weeks, then tablet until 6 months

I start Vitamin D2 post-op one a week for 12 weeks.  Not sure when "post-op" starts.  I'll have to find out.

I also just discovered that my Pepcid (I have the generic form) is supposed to be 20 mg and mine is only 10 mg.  Better get that corrected, eh?   I so suck at medications.
KatieB2003
on 12/27/08 10:41 pm - Garrettsville, OH
On December 27, 2008 at 6:53 AM Pacific Time, jagielow wrote:
Okay, so I was worried and checked.  lol

The Ursodol will start on day 11 crushed until six weeks, then tablet until 6 months

I start Vitamin D2 post-op one a week for 12 weeks.  Not sure when "post-op" starts.  I'll have to find out.

I also just discovered that my Pepcid (I have the generic form) is supposed to be 20 mg and mine is only 10 mg.  Better get that corrected, eh?   I so suck at medications.
Ursodol... thats the gallbladder medicine so you don't get gallstones right?

Not trying to be nosy, but how much did that cost? My doctor prescribed actigall... went to fill that yesterday and the generic version was $160 --- ahhh. 

Meet the Surgeon Aug 1, 2011 .... hopefully the surgeons office is right and everything will go fast and I'll have surgery later this month. 

http://porcenaluk.blogspot.com/
    
 

Julie G.
on 12/27/08 10:58 pm
WOw.. I have no idea on the Ursodol cost.  I don't start it until day 11 and will get it filled tomorrow.  THanks for the heads up on that though.  Better make sure I've got $$ from somewhere.  I'll try to remember to post and let you know the cost when I get it filled.  Though, I do have really good prescription coverage so it shouldn't be more than $15 with my co-pay.  (In the best of worlds, right?)  lol
Julie G.
on 12/28/08 9:10 am
Went to the pharmacy today on the Urso.  It'll be $180 if for some reason my insurance doesn't cover it.  Is there a reason they just don't remove the gall bladder while they're in there if they know it causes problems later?  Just a thought.
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