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DH fascinating over my tablets

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NotSoSlimShadee · 06/06/2025 14:37

I have an inner ear infection, DH reckons he does too - which ironically came on after I told him my symptoms. I went to GP Wednesday and have been given antibiotics. Ever since, DH has been sniffing around my tablets, keeps asking to share them but I’ve told him I need them all as I have to finish the course! Last night I went to take my dose and they were missing - I found them in a shoe (accidentally as dog just happened to pick that shoe up to carry around). DH reckons he doesn’t know how they got there. This morning I woke up with a bad stomach, DH says it’s the tablets causing it and I should stop taking them - he basically just wants to get his hands on them. Lunch time they were missing again (found in a random cupboard). AIBU to be furious at his behaviour?? He did this last time with my sinus spray.

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skyeisthelimit · 06/06/2025 16:45

His behaviour is beyond bizarre and could affect your own health if you can't finish the course.

Get a lockable box for your meds and hide the key from him. For the moment, hide the tablets in a safe place.

amberisola · 06/06/2025 16:44

WTF? I hope this post is a wind up. If not, I couldn't live with someone like that.

babyproblems · 06/06/2025 16:43

What a weirdo. It’s controlling and deceitful.
hide the tablets. Think about divorce!
hope you feel better soon x

Lemonyyy · 06/06/2025 16:41

So has he been to the doctors for antibiotics a lot, and instead of taking them he hoards them? This would explain why the docs won't prescribe anymore. Is this some sort of misguided prepper/doomsday fatalism, like if a nuclear bomb goes off he can survive on baked beans and he'll have antibiotics if he's sick???

I think the man might be quite unwell, and I'd be echoing suggestions to tell your Doc that's your partner is trying to steal your medication.

Comtesse · 06/06/2025 16:37

Mansionscoldandgrey · 06/06/2025 15:42

There once was a man, who for kicks
Stole his wife's antibiotics
When she said he was mean
He nicked all her beans
And pretended to be very sick

I am snorting like Daddy Pig 😂😂😂

PluckyBamboo · 06/06/2025 16:36

Early finish for schools today?

Septembiosis · 06/06/2025 16:36

That gives me the creeps. I'd be hiding the medicine where he can't find it or keeping it with me at all times. But really, who wants to live that way? I wouldn't want to stay married to someone I couldn't trust not to steal my antibiotics!

VickyEadieofThigh · 06/06/2025 16:31

buffyandspikeandfaith · 06/06/2025 14:47

I would be saying “oi fuckface, I need to take the full course. If you’re sick, go to the doctors”
then hiding the bloody tablets and contemplating what other shitty things he does

Indeed - EVERYONE knows you have to take the full course and they do not give you extras!

Loub1987 · 06/06/2025 16:30

What?! Does he eat the beans or store them? Not sure why, but I am so interested!

Where does he keep the antibiotics? Is it just beans or other tins?

Magnalux · 06/06/2025 16:26

I’ve read some odd things on here in my time and this is right up there!!

Tigergirl80 · 06/06/2025 16:26

Put them somewhere he wouldn’t think of looking like in a tampon box is he always so controlling?

Motheroffive999 · 06/06/2025 16:25

Hide them in a Tampax box or in a sock , he sounds creepy.

Daleksatemyshed · 06/06/2025 16:24

Mansionscoldandgrey · 06/06/2025 15:42

There once was a man, who for kicks
Stole his wife's antibiotics
When she said he was mean
He nicked all her beans
And pretended to be very sick

😂

GladiatoooorsReadyyyy · 06/06/2025 16:22

NotSoSlimShadee · 06/06/2025 14:53

He’s obsessed with antibiotics and I’m pretty sure he hoards them. Same with beans. His mother is forever complaining of beans going missing from her cupboards

The initial post was weird enough as it was, before this batshit update.

Steals beans from his Mum to hoard them?

grizzlyoldbear · 06/06/2025 16:18

Mansionscoldandgrey · 06/06/2025 15:42

There once was a man, who for kicks
Stole his wife's antibiotics
When she said he was mean
He nicked all her beans
And pretended to be very sick

😂😂😂

BobbyBiscuits · 06/06/2025 16:18

How utterly bizarre? Why on earth can't he present himself to a doctor and then if he has the symptoms he'll get his own.
They're not like pain pills where you can just pop one as and when. You need the whole course and to not take it can make you resistant to them in future.
Does he have a phobia of doctors?

Arraminta · 06/06/2025 16:17

Username532687 · 06/06/2025 16:08

My husband has always been like this too. Whenever we get the flu/a cold, all the relevant medicines I purchased go missing from the shared cupboard. He grabs whole packets of cough sweets, paracetamol, vitamin c drinks and locks then in his personal cupboard where I can't access them. It's annoying because I've prepared ahead and was happy to share, but instead I get nothing when I actually need them.

Also, when I had a blocked ear for several months and finally had it syringed, he was excited to go and get his own ears syringed even though he could hear fine. The nurse told him his ears were fine after examining them, but put him on the scales and told him he was overweight which upset him.

Wait? What the actual fuck? Why would you stay with someone who is as mad as a box of frogs?

I've been here since back when it t'were all fields and I have read plenty of batshittery bollocks, but this is a new low!

I think I need to lie down in a darkened room.

CuddlesKovinsky · 06/06/2025 16:17

Just out of curiosity, are you on the contraceptive pill...? 😱

💊

JaneJeffer · 06/06/2025 16:16

Can you swap them for arsenic tablets?

AutumnLover1989 · 06/06/2025 16:15

That's really abusive behaviour 😞😮

ilovesushi · 06/06/2025 16:15

That is not normal. Is it not clicking with him that by taking your prescribed medication for an actual illness that he is putting your health at risk. What is going on with him? Why on earth is he doing this?

Renamed · 06/06/2025 16:15

Who in god’s name are these men who won’t even let their partners have their own ILLNESSES or healthcare? I wish they’d all just die of an infected paper cut

Lavenderfarmcottage · 06/06/2025 16:13

Sounds like he has some sort of anxiety and wants to hoard them. Tell him to instead watch YouTube videos on growing his own penicillin, sometimes it’s easier to just redirect their craziness.

butterpuffed · 06/06/2025 16:13

When he goes to his mum's to nick the beans , tell him to have a search round for some antibiotics.

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