Help with Medication

I am on my way to be banded and I needed some input on how the dr's have u to take medicine I take a lot and I mean a lot of medication all size tablets and capsules how will this affect me with the band?? Thank you xoxo

Everyone is different. Even with great restriction I can take pills ith the exception of large vitamins and citrical petites. So I do chewable vitamins and liquid calcium.

I agree that everybody is different.  Some people have no problem whatsoever withany pills or capsules.  Well, that wasn't the case for me.  I had liquid for the scripts I could get in liquid (which wasn't many).  I also had patches for things that came in patches....like my high blood pressure meds.  Then I had capsules so I could open the capsule and put the meds into something whether it be broth or tea or coffee.....anything to dissolve it. 

But, again, everybody is different.  Talk to your surgeon and following their advise.

In general, you cannot take extended release medications. I had to have my heart medicine and my acid reflux medicine changed to ones that were not extended release (which meant on my heart medicine going from one in the morning to four a day). On the other medicine, my doctor was not all that familiar with the lap band and what happens to pills in the stomach, and it took some trial error on our part to get it all straighted out. In that case, I went from a one-a-day capsule to a powdered version for a couple of months, but now can take the small capsules. I have never yet gone back to the HUGE Omega-3 things I was taking. I bought a liquid but haven't tried it. People tell me the Cormega (or something like that) that comes in little catsup-like packets is good.

The best thing to do is to take a list of your medications to the pharmacist and ask them, and they can tell you what you can take and what you cannot, and in most cases, can tell you what is available in an alternate form (liquid or crushed).

At first I crushed all my pills (I take a lot of medicines, too), but there are not too many good ways to take them that don't taste awful. After about two or three weeks, I asked my doctor if I could just take them whole, and he basically said, "Yes, but." Yes, I could take small pills whole. Large pills should be broken up into two or three pieces.

(Of course, there's the usual disclaimer -- talk to YOUR doctor and go by what he/she says.)

Thank all of u for your help!