This is kind of a complicated, really screwed up situation...My fiance and I live with his mother, not because we don't have the means to live on our own but because when his dad passed away in '08 his mom was to get the deed put into my fiance's name, and hers if she chose to. She hasn't done that yet, and he knows that if we move she will sell the farm, which he obviously wants.
Anyways, all three of us have the same dr, and all three of us are prescribed a pain med of some sort. Me because of a fractured vertebrae and a torn disc, I am only prescribed Norco 5/325 and only until I get an appointment with a pain management dr to do epidural injections. My fiance is prescribed oxy 30mg because of 3 torn discs, a shoulder that is completely chewed up, a hip joint that is slowly being eaten away (by what the dr doesn't know), and arthritis caused by lyme disease. His mother is prescribed percocet 10/325 in addition to other meds for rheumatoid arthritis.
For approximately 3 months now his medications have been "disappearing" and I don't mean one or two pills, I mean half the rx. Last month within 2 days of getting mine filled half my bottle was gone. I really didn't care so much about mine because I am allowed 6 a day and I generally only end up taking 3 with the exception of a bad day or two, on those days I take up to 5. It was just the point that someone stole my medication. He is allowed 6 a day and usually takes 5 to 6 a day, so he needs his entire rx. The part that really pisses me off is that our pills are generally only left "unattended" at night while we are sleeping, and even then they are in the same room as us.
We had left for the day, and I had my pills and his in my purse, when we got home I took my purse upstairs and left it in our bedroom. My son got dropped off, so I had went outside to get him, and then my fiance came outside to walk down to the barn to help my son feed our horses. He went in the house before my son and I did, and said that he went upstairs and counted his pills and 11 were missing. The next day the three of us were outside doing yard work, I took my son inside because we had came across 2 copperheads and I didn't want to end up making an er trip because of a snake bite. So I asked my MIL if she would watch him. At this point he only had about 20 pills left, he came inside and again 16 had came up missing. I know it isn't my son taking them, he is only 18 months old.
The next day he called and made a dr appointment, went up and told the dr he had them in his pocket and they fell out at some point while he was mowing and ran them over. The dr gave him oxy 15's, enough to get through until he gets his 30's filled. I know and he knows he shouldn't have lied to the dr, and he felt bad about doing it, he just didn't think the dr was going to believe someone stole his meds. That night he went to get a shower, took the bottle with him and put it in a drawer in the bathroom, forgot it when he came upstairs to go to bed and remembered it about 3 hours later. Went down to get them and had 30 missing. MIL was the only one downstairs.
Last month I was a day early because I had miscounted days due to being out, and it was an honest mistake, but the dr told me that I need to watch my meds because if I'm not taking too many then someone is taking my pills. The odd part of that is that my MIL used to be on Norco 10/325 in addition to the percocet until she went 2 days after my appointment and he just switched her to the percocet.
I guess my question is, I'm fairly certain as to who is taking our meds, especially since we are the only two in the house who has had meds come up missing. I don't really want to get the police involved, but I have been trying to figure out a way to discuss this issue with my dr without sounding like a druggie, or something, and not losing my or my fiances meds.
Anyways, all three of us have the same dr, and all three of us are prescribed a pain med of some sort. Me because of a fractured vertebrae and a torn disc, I am only prescribed Norco 5/325 and only until I get an appointment with a pain management dr to do epidural injections. My fiance is prescribed oxy 30mg because of 3 torn discs, a shoulder that is completely chewed up, a hip joint that is slowly being eaten away (by what the dr doesn't know), and arthritis caused by lyme disease. His mother is prescribed percocet 10/325 in addition to other meds for rheumatoid arthritis.
For approximately 3 months now his medications have been "disappearing" and I don't mean one or two pills, I mean half the rx. Last month within 2 days of getting mine filled half my bottle was gone. I really didn't care so much about mine because I am allowed 6 a day and I generally only end up taking 3 with the exception of a bad day or two, on those days I take up to 5. It was just the point that someone stole my medication. He is allowed 6 a day and usually takes 5 to 6 a day, so he needs his entire rx. The part that really pisses me off is that our pills are generally only left "unattended" at night while we are sleeping, and even then they are in the same room as us.
We had left for the day, and I had my pills and his in my purse, when we got home I took my purse upstairs and left it in our bedroom. My son got dropped off, so I had went outside to get him, and then my fiance came outside to walk down to the barn to help my son feed our horses. He went in the house before my son and I did, and said that he went upstairs and counted his pills and 11 were missing. The next day the three of us were outside doing yard work, I took my son inside because we had came across 2 copperheads and I didn't want to end up making an er trip because of a snake bite. So I asked my MIL if she would watch him. At this point he only had about 20 pills left, he came inside and again 16 had came up missing. I know it isn't my son taking them, he is only 18 months old.
The next day he called and made a dr appointment, went up and told the dr he had them in his pocket and they fell out at some point while he was mowing and ran them over. The dr gave him oxy 15's, enough to get through until he gets his 30's filled. I know and he knows he shouldn't have lied to the dr, and he felt bad about doing it, he just didn't think the dr was going to believe someone stole his meds. That night he went to get a shower, took the bottle with him and put it in a drawer in the bathroom, forgot it when he came upstairs to go to bed and remembered it about 3 hours later. Went down to get them and had 30 missing. MIL was the only one downstairs.
Last month I was a day early because I had miscounted days due to being out, and it was an honest mistake, but the dr told me that I need to watch my meds because if I'm not taking too many then someone is taking my pills. The odd part of that is that my MIL used to be on Norco 10/325 in addition to the percocet until she went 2 days after my appointment and he just switched her to the percocet.
I guess my question is, I'm fairly certain as to who is taking our meds, especially since we are the only two in the house who has had meds come up missing. I don't really want to get the police involved, but I have been trying to figure out a way to discuss this issue with my dr without sounding like a druggie, or something, and not losing my or my fiances meds.
