DH fascinating over my tablets

[NotSoSlimShadee]

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.

Very weird from him

Is this for real? How many times does he have to take your medication before you have the sense to hide the medication somewhere he won't find it? Tell him to book a GP appointment.

Dr won’t prescribe him anymore antibiotics apparently

His mother, not mine

I don’t think that matters much does it?

He's lovely, but he steals antibiotics and cans of beans and hoards them? Right.

OP, you are being much, much too relaxed about this. He's got serious mental health issues if he's behaving like this. Seriously. If he's obsessed with prescribed tablets I'm sure a psychiatrist will sort him out with some of his own because he certainly bloody needs some.

I really am confused by this thread. Is he mentally unwell? Or chronically jealous of you receiving attention?

That just made me think of something, with the effort he is going to, to get his hands on op's antibiotics, would he swap them with something else 😳

Op this is not normal, keep them on you at all time, wear clothing with pockets and keep them in your pocket ...sleep with them inside your pillowcase....

Only other thing I can think of is call your GP to discuss your treatment then in front of him ask the Dr about an appointment for him for his "ear issue" (tell the Dr on the phone in front of him that he is trying to steal your medication)

Is this not a wind up? He steals baked beans and hoards them? Own brand is 23p in Tesco. What is his reasoning for hoarding baked beans? The antibiotics one is weird and very alarming.

This is extremely bizarre behaviour

He has real mental health problems.

I think this is the weirdest behaviour I've read about on MN. There is something very wrong with your husband.

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?

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?

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?

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?!

Antibiotics and beans? is he a prepper/hoarder?

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?

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!

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.

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

This must be a wind up.

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

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

Why won’t the doctor give him antibiotics?