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.

Oi

Are your meds to treat your lack of joke recognition?

If so, yes, it's a shame you've run out.

I know such a shame I don't find being called a drug dealer funny!

And they're for severe depression.

Oh, I thought they were prescribed to help you sleep, Oi?

She wasn't calling you a dealer.

Insomnia and being unable to sleep are associated with depression. Come on. You know this. You know you do.

She did. But it does not matter.

OP what exactly are you wanting here? You know it's not a good idea to share your meds. If someone stole them from you, that's awful but you know this. So what answer exactly are you wanting?

Hodge, I know.

Posted last night in the fog of meds and being woken up for them.

Sorry if not knowing exactly what I wanted has upset you in some way!

Medication prescribed for severe depression with the effect of knocking someone out certainly shouldn't be appropriated by another family member who apparently understands the implications of what they're doing.
Surely the doctor who prescribed the medication would be rather concerned if s/he were aware.

I do know that is sometimes the case Oi. Sometimes quite the opposite.

Your phrasing earlier made me think the primary issue was sleep. But I was obviously wrong.

Lol as if I give a shit! Just trying to understand better what you wanted so we could try and give you that. Sorry for trying to help.

They would be ils but I just - I don't know what I thought anyone would do. I'm not totally sure how I feel about them anyway. I mean they have helped with the sleep which was the main problem and I suppose they've helped 'numb' things so I don't feel as bad but then I also feel foggy and out of it. Like last night and this morning I really thought I was being called a dealer!

Mybread Disastrous use of amoxycillin - they won't have the full prescribed dose and the potentially terminal bugs will just breed, get resistant, and be no use to anyone in the future. On top of which the kids won't have had the full dose. This is sheer insanity and if I were you I would report it. .

I can understand sharing inhalers and drugs (both on statins etc) but otherwise the nurse who was poo-poohed was right. No one should share drugs especially the opiate and antibiotic lot. The first could wipe someone out and you'd be blamed, the second could wipe out the human race with aggressive TB, STIs, etc.

Op, who stole your medication? Was it friends, family or a partner? It is great that you have been able to seek help for your difficulty sleeping and depression. If someone is sabotaging your efforts by stealing your medication they are not thinking of your best interests. Have you considered going for counselling as well? Having some one neutral to talk to about your feelings and pressures can really help.

I think I could. It's just they make you feel strange. It wasn't really stolen just he came in when I was half asleep and announced 'I'm taking one of your tablets as I can't sleep, OK?' And I said no but he got all annoyed and I couldn't be doing with the aggro so I said 'well, OK, but this has got to stop.'

They don't affect him as they do me. Maybe because he's taller and well, male?

I once refused to hand over some of my prescribed oramorph to a friend who now won't talk to me and was really angry about my refusal.

She was in a lot of pain, rang me crying and in fairness she had been prescribed it previously for the same problem. So I knew it was unlikely she would have a reaction.

However asa registered nurse I would have been risking my registration.

Dear god, it was clearly a joke up-thread. No one was accusing you of dealing. Sorry you're feeling poorly OP but you've taken something the really wrong way there!

She knows she took it the wrong way. Surely there's no need to point it out again when she's already acknowledged it?

It does depend on what it is and whther or not that individual is also prescribed them and what the circumstances are. So for e.g. my Mum has the same BP tabs as me - same dosage for both tablets. If I travel up there and forget mine and vice versa we will share. I think its happened twice in my life time. Pain killers - hmm might consider it in extreme circs for prescription where we know that is what the Dr wld likely subscribe and they are off to the docs tomoz or similar. So if I was prescribed something for back pain, that went away and 6 mths later came back wld take some until could get to GP again or OH had similar back pain for e.g.

I wouldn't be handing them out just in case. I also wouldn't share sleeping tabs or tabs for depression etc unless I had seen their prescription and they were out for some reason

I did take it the wrong way. I am sorry. Today it clearly looks like a joke, but when I saw it I took it seriously for some reason.

Anyway I don't know whether to go back to the pharmacy with them, or to keep trying with them myself. I don't like how I feel the next day but I like how I fall straight into sleep and don't wake up.

Is it zopiclone?

It's not, no, not sure if I should say what it is.

They certainly stopped you firing on all pistons . Good to see you more coherent today.
Diazepam does this to me. Drugs like this 9guessing they are something of similar strength) are not for sharing. The person who took them is basically abusing you and the drug.
Having to live with someone like that is not going to help you recover from depression. Good idea to go back to doctor and talk about what happened. Have you got anyone else in RL to talk to?

I think you should go back to the doctor and tell them how you're feeling, that you haven't felt able to take them every day and that you're unsure whether to persevere.

Diazepam isn't prescribed for severe depression. I think what the drug is might be very relevant.