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Home medications after surgery

Valerie G.
on 8/7/15 12:10 pm - Northwest Mountains, GA
DS on 10/31/05

Your stomach is merely reduced.  Your digestive system is unchanged.  Doc recommendations vary with taking pills vs powders.  I was taking pills since the day I came home from the hospital.

Valerie
DS 2005

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

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midwiferywoman
on 8/7/15 12:57 pm
VSG on 12/04/15

That was exactly my thought . . . the route is still the same, just smaller.  Thanks!


"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit" -Aristotle
SW: 237lbs | Lap Band Feb 2010 | LW: 188lbs | Post op baby Feb 2013 | July 2015 slipped band diagnosed | Oct 2015 band port eroded through adominal wall | 10/20/15 lap band removed | Regained to 215lbs | VSG: 12/4/2015 | LW: 148lbs but settled around 154lbs | Post-op baby #2 born Jan 2018 | CW: 160lbs

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Simone13
on 8/7/15 2:53 pm

Same here.  Been taking my blood pressure pills, acid reducer and biotin since day 1 along with a chewable vitamins.  Haven't crushed or cut my pills.

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White Dove
on 8/7/15 4:09 pm - Warren, OH
RNY on 10/16/07

The info that you were given sounds like it was written for lapband and never updated for VSG.  No reason to crush pills with VSG.

Real life begins where your comfort zone ends

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