Medications and VGS (sleeve)

Bbinder2002
on 11/23/14 7:04 am

I've started a 3 month diet required by my insurance in order to get approved for the sleeve.  Can anyone that has the gastric sleeve tell me what the experience is with taking medications?  I take medications for MS so it is important that I continue these.  They cannot be crushed.  Is this situation a make or break for me?

Valerie G.
on 11/23/14 11:50 am - Northwest Mountains, GA

A sleeve is is simply a smaller stomach.  All working parts are there and doing their job, so I wouldn't expect any difference.

Valerie
DS 2005

There is room on this earth for all of God's creatures..
next to the mashed potatoes

Cicerogirl, The PhD
Version

on 11/23/14 12:13 pm - OH

You should be able to take your meds normally, and they will absorb normally, with a sleeve.

You may have a bit of difficulty with drinking during the immediate post-op period, though, so you might need to take the meds with less water ino the initial swallow and then follow up with additional sips of water to help wa**** through the sleeve.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

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