To not want to 'share' my prescription meds with other family members

[Oitheyaremine]

AIBU to think this isn't on! As when I run out, it's me who will suffer.

What are they? Who has stolen them?

I suppose it doesn't matter as I don't want them. Just annoys me.

What tablets are they ?

Ones that help you sleep.

You're still being pretty evasive OP.

And I suspect you have a problem with your family members and surely that does matter.

Yesterday you'd suffer if you ran out and now it doesn't matter because you don't want them?

I was prescribed Ponstan for period cramps. Time of the month came and there were two left in the bottle of 30. My fucking dad would just take anything he found lying around. He also took my anti-depressants 😡

It depends.

If you have paracetemol on prescription for example and someone has a headache then yes, as a one off I would share.

Anything more "specific" then absolutely not.

Actually it sounds to me more like OP has had her meds swiped by someone rather than her doling them out, which is pretty shit imo. My SIL massive hypochondriac with a codeine addiction took dihydrocodeine from her granddad who desperately needed them and I was horrified and told her so!

When my mil died my DH's aunties shared her meds between them. I was too shocked to intervene. She'd had cancer and depression so her meds were the good stuff.

My friend's cousin took some of her late husband's morphine to help her sleep on the night of his funeral. She died.

I'm prescribed Ranitidine 150's for GERD...you can buy them over the counter in 75mg but 150s last longer and I need them daily so have them on repeat.

I made the mistake of allowing a couple of people one when they had bad indigestion/heartburn and that turned into one person Asking 'oh you have a whole box, could I just take a strip?' - more than once.

Wouldn't share again!

I'm not intentionally being evasive.

ils the thunder is they wipe you out. Today I am watching my child in a competition so I don't want to feel like I'm subtitles on tv so I didn't need them yesterday. Some days I do. Just depends. Tbf I last took one Wednesday and I still feel not quite with it.

Isn't it illegal to share prescription meds?
My DH is in the military and getting struck by any illness that requires a trip to the Dr results in a sick note signing him off certain duties if contagious and a lot of stick from the other lads. A nice bout of Strep throat has been working it's way around the military children (including mine) and spreading to the parents, and I've had friends whose kids are refusing to take their Amoxicillin medicine so the dads have been drinking it instead so they don't have to see the Medical Officer
(Luckily my kids are little weirdos who like the rank banana taste so have been taking it themselves )

I don't really understand that post!

Just making a point that however innocent it may seem on the surface (i.e. My dh's colleagues taking their children's antibiotics) it is still illegal to take a prescription medicine that is not prescribed to you.

I see!! But presumably you won't report to the police.

No
But I guess it could still be dangerous - I'm allergic to penicillin. Last time I was exposed to it I had a horrible reaction. On of the dad's might be unknowingly allergic and cause a potentially dangerous reaction by taking the antibiotics that weren't prescribed to him

I'm wondering who the family member/s appropriating this medication might be and whether they understand the implications of their actions...

They do but I can't work out the ellipsis there?

Actually I remember police officers giving a talk on drugs saying that it was illegal and technically dealing.

Really? I often use my DH hay fever/paracetamol/asprin/steroid crème - I don't think he'll be going bird for dealing, neither will I for taking contraband.

Why did you post OP?

I was told by a school nurse doing epi pen training that using someone else's prescription medicine on another person was illegal because technically it involves you 'making a diagnosis' and 'prescribing a restricted drug ' neither of which is permissible unless you are a doctor.

It is illegal to possess medication that isnt prescribed, and its illegal to give someone medication that isnt prescribed to them.

I was told by a school nurse

I wouldn't take what a school nurse says as Gospel without some evidence to back it up

Er well I didn't post to be accused of drug dealing ginger!

Just annoys me.