Question:
Antibiotics & Percocet?

My dentist prescribed Trimox (a form of penicillin) and also Percocet for pain after oral surgery yesterday. Percocet used to knock me for a loop before gastric bypass (distal RNY) and now it is like taking a sugar pill. It did not help my pain whatsoever. I even doubled the dose which I know was dangerous but I was suffering so much and it still had zero effect. Secondly, are antibiotics OK for our pouch? Thanks, as always,    — Vicki S. (posted on November 14, 2003)

November 14, 2003
I have no problem w Percocet, works ok for me even post op. However, I was told by my surgeon to take liquid antibiotics, that the pills are bad for our pouches. That the way they disolve that we don't absorb the meds. I take liquid Cipro. Mel
   — Melissa P.

November 14, 2003
I got bit by a spider in the spring and the doctor gave me Augmentin. They were huge white pills so I crushed them up, boy were they discusting to taste. I don't know why but they gave me a bad case of hives. I started them on friday and by the time I called the doctor on monday I was a mess. He called me in another perscription for a milder antiobotic and I had no problem.
   — Tawnda C.

November 14, 2003
I am like the other poster "it works for me to" and I take two of them a day for pain in my hip. Some times at night I take two so I will sleep the night away and it puts me in never never land. Good Luck Tony LAP RNY DISTAL 02/19/03 412/236/200
   — tonyskid

November 14, 2003
I (myself) can't take penicillin, but just used a course of Percocet for foot surgery. It DID help knock the egde off, but this was about a millin times more painful than any other surgery I've done. However, I take pills with food (so abundance of saliva) and that helps melt them down faster. I did take one or two with water & I did NOT get the same effect and it took MUCH longer. So, as I continued them, I "wrapped them in spit", so to speak. I am very distal RNY, as distal as you can get.
   — vitalady