How Long to Dissolve a Horse Pill

**FairyFacade** · 10-09-2007, 01:04 PM

I haven't taken my 'diet pills' since my 2nd surgery because my restriction is so tight.. the ones I have right now are HORSE PILLS. But they taste like crap inside, so I'm afraid to cut them in half.. they are coated in something ridiculously fake-sweet.. I hate the taste of that too.
But if I take one, and it gets stuck in my stoma, how long does it take for something like that to dissolve? I don't think it would 'hurt' anything ingredients wise, since it's just a bunch of herbal hoopla. :help:

**FairyFacade** · 10-09-2007, 01:06 PM

Nevermind, just took it with a half a bottle of water and I felt it squeeze through. :)

ragdollx19 · 10-09-2007, 01:23 PM

Just curious why you need diet pills with the band?

Wheetsin · 10-09-2007, 01:26 PM

Be careful with that, you may have run into a matter of luck witht he pill going through vertically instead of horizontally. And you definitely won't be able to do that when you're tight. One of my worst PBs was on 1/4 piece of Tylenol that I thought would be small enough.

There are ways to get yucky pills down with little to no taste.

**FairyFacade** · 10-09-2007, 01:31 PM

Cause I have a lot of head hunger I guess.. till about 4pm I am fine with eating my small meals, but come dinner time I do a lot of eating, and don't get my 'full' signal, and have hard time with self control.
So if I take a diet pill now, they make me nauseated at the thought of food, so by dinner, I'll eat little to nothing.. but it will still wear off in time before I go to bed.
Just trying to break a plateau right now, thought I'd try getting back on diet pills :)

And yeah Wheet, I was trying to deliberately take it so that it goes up and down through there, and I guess I was lucky!
What are these magical ways you speak of to take it with little to no taste?

Wheetsin · 10-09-2007, 01:56 PM

No tricks or magic, just desperation. ;) (I've had to take prednisone, cipro, and a host of other nasties since banding).

The best method I've found - grind it up, and a little at a time sprinkle it between layers of yogurt smoothie (the kind you buy in the yogurt section). I get a deep spoon, fill it maybe 1/2 with smoothie, sprinkle on some med, top it off. Put the spoon as far back to my throat as I can comfortably, and then tip back. With any luck, it just pretty much runs down my throat.

This won't work with water/milk because they don't have the viscosity to float the medication. Floating is key. If it floats, you can pour it back. If it doesn't float, you have to use your lips or tongue to get it out of the spoon = you're gonna taste it. And I haven't had much luck with things thicker than the smoothies because they are a little too thick and like to sit too long. The smoothies, shaken well, are the perfect consistency (for me), taste good, have low carbs & fat, and give me protein to boot.

faithmd · 10-09-2007, 02:15 PM

Thanks, Wheetsin!