DH fascinating over my tablets

This is more than fascination isn’t it, it’s obsession. And potentially hypochondria if he’s been asking the doctor for so many antibiotics he’s been banned! If you share the pills it won’t solve the infection for either of you (but I suspect it’s only you that actually has it). I’d be having a serious chat about him knocking it off

This is the weirdest thing I have ever read on Mumsnet and it's a high bar.

That's what I was wondering too. Is it the shape/size/texture of the beans/antibiotics? Is that the link between them? Any other small ovalish things interest him? Is he neurodivise?

What's his explanation for wanting them?

I haven’t heard the term ‘fascinating over’ before. I thought other people would be commenting on it but not a single mention! Is it a common phrase I’ve missed somehow?!

Beans has thrown me.

If it was just antiobiotics, I'd ask if he has ever suffered from a really painful infection (like a tooth abscess) that has made him paranoid about not having them to hand. I could see that sparking a small obsession.

Add in the beans....no clue.

Do you have a room in your house that's just full of cans and cans of beans?

This is morbidly fascinating.

Is it the shape of them perhaps? Tablets and beans have a similar look... < grasping at straws >

So how many tins of beans do you have now ?
I’m sorry OP this is just ludicrous.
I keep thinking it has to be an obscure joke .
I don’t want to make light of it in case the poor man has genuine struggles with his mental health.

he's not normal

WTF
If this is not a wind up post then is it possible he has been taken in by conspiracy theories and he’s hoarding antibiotics, beans etc for a nuclear disaster type scenario?

I know we all have quirks, but this is very odd indeed! I'm concerned about your casual acceptance of this behaviour and wonder what else you are underreacting to!

Beans????

What does he do with the beans? Does he have a bean stockpile somewhere? Does he eat them? This is the strangest thread I have ever seen.

Why won’t the doctor give him antibiotics?

He doesn’t sound like a well man. Did the gp recommend any mental health treatment when they cut him off antibiotics?

I want the laughing emoji
(misses the point of thread)

This must be a wind up.

Can I just clarify that your husband is a human male, and not a squirrel ?

I agree with others that this is a very, very serious problem.

Apart from the sheer batshittery of it, it can be extremely dangerous to take medications that have been prescribed for someone else. An elderly lady I used to volunteer with ended up very seriously ill in hospital after she'd felt a bit poorly and a neighbour gave her some of his prescription medication because he decided it sounded like the same thing that was wrong with him. It almost stripped her stomach lining away.

Also, there is probably a very good reason why the Dr is not prescribing him any more antibiotics on request, if this is true.

Plus, it is no less dangerous to take away medicines prescribed to others, so that they can't take them. He presumably wouldn't take crutches away from someone with a broken leg, or an epi-pen or inhaler from an asthmatic or nut-allergic child? Or perhaps he would.

This is extremely dangerous behaviour. Unless you can get a medicine safe that only you know the combination to, you should be very, very careful around him.

Get a pack of laxatives and tell him they’re antibiotics……..he’ll think twice about ‘inventing’ illness after he’s been shitting through the eye of a needle for a few hours!

So if the dog needed antibiotics would he steal those too? All antibiotics or just capsules or just tablets? Does he want to conduct experiments of how sick people get without antibiotics? Wants to observe sepsis first hand?

Antibiotics and beans? is he a prepper/hoarder?

The weirdest thing about this is the stealing part. If he was obsessed with having a stockpile of anti-biotics I’m sure there are places you can buy them (and certainly places you can buy baked beans). Why on earth would he be stealing these things from his loved ones?!

Very weird.
Is he one who believes you need to hoard baked beans and antibiotics against a doomsday event?
Or someone with extreme health anxiety?
Or with a recurrent infection he can’t reveal?
Whatever reason he needs to seek help and stop dragging you into his strange world.
Did he do something to give you an upset stomach so you wouldn’t take the tablets?

Can I ask please... because I can't get my head around this... is he stealing/hiding your antibiotics so he can take them? Or just do you can't?

And why the baked beans? Really what are his motives? Same question... does he eat them or just hoard them?

Maybe, the happiest day of his life as a little boy, was when he was off school with his mum and he had antibiotics for something and a tin of baked beans on a jacket potato. Maybe his mum was making a nice fuss of him and it just stuck there.
Odd.

Did the Dr's that now refuse to prescribe antibiotics, suggest any solutions or explanations or therapy to this oddity?