DS strange medication in room

[DrKlazon]

My DS who is 17 has 'Dapoxetine 30mg' blister packs in his room!

This is an anti-depressant drug but he does not seem depressed and it is not prescribed from our GP but a Hospital.

What should I do?

He has been prescribed it as it has a hospital sticker on the pack

17 year olds can suffer with the same things a 60+ year old can suffer with!

The code instead of a name probably means it was prescribed by the hospitals sexual health clinic. I work as a hospital pharmacy technician and any prescription coming from there will always have a code beginning m for male or f for female followed by numbers to protect the patients identity.

If it has been prescribed for him by a dr what exactly is your question? He's old enough to see a dr and take responsibility for his health.

Happy, is that the patient's hospital number? Has the OP just unwittingly posted her son's medical identity online?

No it is a number randomly generated by the sexual health clinic unique to that patient but as far as I am aware only the clinic would know which number corresponds to which patient. It is still private information but I can't imagine it would be in anyway identifying, not in the same way that a patients hospital number would be.

Interesting first post....

i wonder how the OP would react if her son found thrush treatment/cream for vaginal dryness/a rampant rabbit/whatever, in her room and then went online to advertise the fact to all and sundry without so much as a cursory discussion.

where I live, biggest drug problem for teens is stealing prescription drugs and having pill parties. They'll put anything in their mouths. I would definitely ask him about them and I'm afraid I would have in the back of my mind that he nicked them from the medicine cabinet in a friends house as his contribution to the next get together.

Thank goodness for that Happy! Thanks for the info. I learn something every day.

This is a wind up surely? no parent can be this thick skinned and insensitive.

OP you say judging by the sticker they have been prescribed by a hospital.

So put the pills back in his room, never say anything to him, stop snooping in his room and mind your own damn business!

Do you really think a 17 yo boy wants to discuss his sexual dysfunction with his mother?

He has been prescribed it as it has a hospital sticker on the pack

So it has his name on the sticker? because otherwise all it tells you is that someone was prescribed it -- not necessarily your son.