UTI and hard time finding medication that i am allowed to take.

Hi my name is Karen had the gastric sleeve about a year ago. My dr told me I was only to take tablets and had to be crushed after surgery. my obgyn and pharmacist are having a hard time finding a mediation that I am allowed to take. does anyone have any suggestion????? I am overwhelmed..... :(

I suggest posting this on the VSG board. I am not sleeved so can't be certain, but I am fairly sure when similar questions have been asked before, sleevers have said they take tablets.

Being banded, I can't swallow large tablets but when I need anti-biotics (which I am guessing is what you need?), my doc prescribes them in liquid form. 

Why do they have to be crushed?  I suggest calling your doctor that told you your meds must be crushed and asking for advice.

I have never crushed my meds and have taken anything that has been prescribed for me ,post op,just fine,even NSAIDS.

sound like your surgeon is lumping his sleeve patients in with his rnyers. 

The sleeve stomach is exactly the same as it was pre op,only smaller. You should be able to take anything now that you took pre op withno problem. Please note that this is. My opinion only.

gl

I'm an RNY patient and was swallowing whole pills before I left the hospital.  I have NEVER crushed a pill.

RNY patients don't need to crush their meds.  I've never crushed anything.

I cannot imagine why your surgeon would require crushed meds after a VSG, and especially not a year later!  Unlike a RNYer, nothing about your anatomy has changed other than having part of your stomach removed so crushing meds would be kind of pointless even right after surgery let alone a year later.

I would call and ask your surgeon's office why you would need to only take tablets ANd why you would need to crush them.  It just doesn't make sense.

Lora

Macrobid....antibiotic specifically for utis. It's a capsule you can open and sprinkle in yogurt etc.

I've been on antibiotics a couple of times since having the VSG and haven't had any problems. I ended up sick about 6 weeks after surgery and got one in a liquid form, but since then I've just gotten normal ones. I don't recall being told to take my pills crushed after the first little while. I would check with my surgeon to make sure he still wants you taking crushed pills this far out.

I had a sleeve in February of this year. My surgeon said that yes, we needed to crush pills immediately after surgery, but that was only for a week or two at most. After that, we are completely free to swallow any pill/tablet that we can. Including NSAIDs, antibiotics, etc.

I suggest to check again with your surgeon, but I would expect that you would have no trouble at this point swallowing any pill. I take oodles of supplements daily (Vitamin D, Calcium, iron, multivitamin, Vitamin C, Vitamin B12, etc.) all in pill form and I don't have any problem swallowing them at all.