Time release capsule medication

[Kelleye]

Has anyone been taking or tried time-released medication after being sleeved? I am a week post op and got desparate and started back on medicine thats time released. Would love to know what kind of effect this has on me with no resevoir!

[ACE]

I took a time release morphine one day and OMG my head hurt and I felt sick after about an hour I only took one b4 sleeve so I knew at 280 pounds that it worked on the back pain and well now i cant take nearly that amount but that might be because of the weight loss but you having a smaller stomach shouldn't really bother the time release part of it because it is designed for someone with a "normal" sized stomach if that makes any sense.

[icon23]

I was informed that the reason we're not supposed to take time-released medications after the sleeve is because they won't stay in the sleeve long enough to work properly.

[makeupbar]

Hi, I was wondering the same thing with my current blood pressure pills, I guess my doctor will either make some changes to the when and how I take them.

[cal]

i will be having the same problems shortly.was told to find liquid meds-----probably thru a pharmacy that does compounding.
cal

[rswear51]

any extended release pills or capsules won't work with you - first you can't break them in half - which many of us do with our pills and the fact that your stomach doesn't retain them long enough to absorb them is an issue. One great thing is after surgery you probably will not be on blood pressure pills - I had been on them for years and within a month was off them. I do take an antiarhymic for atrial fib and had to switch from extended release pill once a day to regular pills 3 times a day ( a pain but a small price to pay for feeling great)...vitamins are all dissolvable or chewable. Tell your Internal med doc that you have had a sleeve and can't take extended release capsules or pills - they will figure something out . Good luck

[jascha231]

for gastric sleeve patients you can take most extended release medications. most extended release pills work by dissolving when they hit the duodenum (the first part of the intestine) which is basic, not acidic. the acidic environment in the stomach doesn't cause the pill to 'dissolve' or be absorbed, but the basic environment in the intestine does. so the stomach has no effect on the absorption of most extended release pills. if you had gastric bypass, where the stomach is disconnected from the duodenum and reconnected lower down in the intestine, the basic environment is lost and pills are not absorbed properly, or possibly at all. so it all depends on the mechanism that a pill is made long acting as to whether you can take it or not, if it depends on the acid/base effect, you should be able to take it. talk to your pharmacist or medical provider.

[jascha231]

that is not correct, see post below. for most pills, it is the acid/base effect. gastric sleeve patients should be able to take most long acting medications. gastric bypass patients cannot take most extended release pills.

[jascha231]

see post below

[jascha231]

this is incorrect, see below.