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Brian84
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Joined : Mar 2005
Posts : 460
Posted 3/19/2012 11:33 PM (GMT 0)
So I got from the pharmacy some huge gel capsule pills of Iron. I hear that they don't break down very well if you have an ileostomy. Is this true?
I would like something different if so, but I just payed $50 for these.
NewShinyCD
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Joined : Oct 2009
Posts : 474
Posted 3/20/2012 1:17 AM (GMT 0)
I take a multivitamin, gel capsule vitamin D, and Celexa. I've never seen any undigested pill go though. Just make sure you don't drink soda or something that speeds up your GI track when you take those medications.
Another UC wife
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Joined : Jun 2007
Posts : 2111
Posted 3/20/2012 12:08 PM (GMT 0)
Hubby uses the sub lingual form that dissovle under his tongue for B12...is there anything like that available for iron?????
Christine1946
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Joined : Aug 2008
Posts : 5988
Posted 3/22/2012 4:31 PM (GMT 0)
I have taken gel capsules several times, the latest is clindamycin for gum abscess (think I am allergic to the med itself though). No problems with my system absorbing the gel caps and meds inside. At least I don't see anything coming out in my bag. Now, potassium pills are another matter. They gave me them in a local hospital a few months post op because I was dehydrated and had low electrolytes. The pills were HUGE and came out in their entirety in my bag
. This was not the hospital where my surgery was performed.....and one of the reasons I did NOT have the surgery there..lol, they know nothing! The next day, even after I told the nurse the pills came out in my ostomy bag, she pranced back into my room with not two, but FOUR potassium pills!!! Oy!
run4pancakes
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Joined : Oct 2008
Posts : 938
Posted 3/23/2012 1:11 PM (GMT 0)
I no longer have an ileo, but do have the j-pouch. I take daily Vitamin D in a gel capsule form with no issues. I also have taken gel capsule cold medicine and it dissolved fine.
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