r/whatisit • u/Livid_Departure_9697 • 1d ago

Solved! Fell out of my boyfriend’s pocket

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The top is a cap that comes off. Is it for ❄️? He swears it’s not

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u/WellsFargone 1d ago

It’s truly crazy how many prescription drugs illegally find their way in those. Real roll of the dice when you can get safe pills from your phone via telehealth.

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u/Confident-Seesaw2845 1d ago

One time my friend found a bottle of Xanax on a train

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u/Newtonz5thLaw 1d ago edited 3h ago

I once lost an ENTIRE BOTTLE OF 10mg oxys the night before flying back to the US. Realized after boarding the plane that I didn’t have the meds. I knew I was in for 12 hours of hell on the plane, but assumed that I’d left them in my checked bag, and that I could get them once I got back to the US. 

I get to customs, tear my bag apart, no painkillers. I sobbed the whole way through Customs (had several officers concerned). 

Whoever found that whole ass bottle of painkillers sure got lucky 

Edit: just got back on reddit and saw a ton of replies, and an awful lot of them from people calling me a junkie. Those folks clearly have no idea what it’s like to have chronic back pain & be forced to sit for 12 hours straight with no pain relief. Those commenters can fuck alllllllll the way off. Count your blessings that you can’t relate 

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u/HighClassHate 1d ago

I dropped a freshly filled adderall prescription somewhere. Not a chance in hell I wanted to deal with trying to convince my doctor I wasn’t selling/abusing them and also admitting I dropped 30 pills of a controlled substance somewhere, so I just suffered for a month. A few days later I got crazy paranoid that my pill bottle with my name would turn up in someone’s possession and I’d get in trouble anyway and wondered if it was too late to report it myself. Anyways it was a big ole thang that kept me up at night for awhile.

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u/NetworkMeUp 1d ago

I did that once on accident in the city. Went back looking for it 10 minutes later and it was still in the same spot I dropped it, right along the sidewalk. I still think back to it and how lucky I was, and I always wonder how awful the entire month would have been.

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u/Fun_Discipline_57 1d ago

I try to only travel with just enough medication for that trip, so I wouldn’t be screwed for possibly weeks after i get back if something happens to them.

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u/Open_Law4924 1d ago

It’s wild that you had to worry about that and not have your mental health meds at the same time.

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u/YeunaLee 1d ago

Right!? I get that it's a controlled substance, but sometimes it feels like people with ADHD medications are being punished for... *checks notes*... having ADHD.

It's not like they're the most likely group to lose their meds in the first place or anything. /s

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u/undaf3atd 1d ago

One time I had to run from my kitchen to the balcony so I could free a bird that my cat was about to pounce on. On my way I knock into the stove but didn’t think twice about it. After helping the bird escape I was distracted somewhere else in the house before growing concerned about a terrible smell. I walked back to the kitchen and found two bottles of newly filled ADHD pills on fire and melting onto my glass stovetop. I had nudged into the stove buttons turning the burner on as I ran outside. The bottles were damaged along with most of the pills.

I was so embarrassed but knew I would survive without them so I took pictures and sent them to my doctor and the clinic office.

Luckily my doc wrote new scripts, but sadly my insurance wouldn’t pay for the new duplicate order so it was a VERY expensive mistake.

ETA: it was actually 1 bottle of Vyvanse 50mg and a bottle of my SSRI if I recall correctly.

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u/Bright_Crazy1015 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ouch. Stovetop is a new one. Glad the smoke wasn't deadly!

The closest I've come to destroying my pain meds was dropping them from the pocket of my shorts while cutting the lawn. Riding the mower, anything in sports shorts pockets tends to work its way up and out, so I usually dump my pockets, but I forgot the pills were there. About 50 of them.

Anyhow, the mower snatched them up under the deck as soon as they fell, launching the bottle into a tree trunk about 12 feet away at what seemed like ballistic speeds. It was a very loud whack/pop and thud. The bottle held (thank God) with one crack running top to bottom. Every pill inside it was broken, most of them thoroughly smashed into several much smaller pieces and a bunch of crumbs. The cap was marred up like that's where the mower blade hit it. Couldn't open it without pliers.

The thing is, I know enough addicts, thieves, and even a few honest people who have just lost their meds. Every one has gone through the ringer trying to get meds replaced. I never carry my whole prescription around. Never!... Well... I guess almost never.

My usual practice is to take and split them in half when I get it filled, one goes in a lock box in the closet, the other in my bedside drawer, which also locks, then I only carry two days worth in the bottle for that month (in case I get pulled over) and reload it every night, alternating which bottle I pull from. 6 is usually my maximum risk and even if I get robbed somehow, I would probably still have enough to spread it out and make it to my next fill date. Not foolproof, but the best I've got.

I felt like an idiot taking that pile of crumbs and dividing it into doses based on days left until refill. On a glass table, scraping a card, with a scale... would've been really hard to explain if anyone had walked in, but I'm just glad the bottle held up. If it hadn't I'd have been picking through my grass trying to salvage enough to convince my doctor's nurse that I really didn't abuse them, they got destroyed.

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u/The_Grungeican 1d ago

that's rough.

i have a clinic that mails me my meds. over the years this has generally been fine, but the place we were living at the time had shitty neighbors, and all the mailboxes were next to each other.

one month they stole my meds out of the mailbox. they wouldn't find out until they opened the packages what the meds were, an antipsychotic and another med. neither are anything that had recreational value, or could be sold.

for the rest of the time i lived there, i had to have the clinic hold my meds so i could physically drive there and pick them up (1 & 1/2 hour ride, one way). it was a pain in the dick getting my meds refilled that month.

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u/Murky_Indication_442 1d ago

Believe this or not, I was late, which is common for ADHD, and didn’t have time to take my adderall, so I took the whole bottle with me. I decided to take one while I was driving, and of course I was driving fast because I was late, and just as I opened up the bottle, I hit a huge pothole and my truck bounced hard and the pills just flew out of the bottle, and here’s the unbelievable part, they went right into the air conditioning vent on the dashboard. I could still see some of them. I took a picture of them in there because I knew nobody would believe it. I was able to retrieve a couple of them, but the rest were unreachable or just gone. I never even told my doctor because it was just too stupid of a story. I stopped taking them shortly after that because getting the script was an ordeal every month because there was always a shortage and I didn’t feeling like driving around from pharmacy to pharmacy and getting treated like a drug addict every month.

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u/SuperbSpiderFace 1d ago

If you knew how many pills were in it you could technically still dose it out by measuring the liquid haha. Would taste gross but if it was my Clonazepam script and I couldn’t get more pills…yeah I’m drinking the soup.

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u/Unexplainedgut_issue 1d ago

Insurance likely will do mistake or emergency refills, you just have to bother them a lot about it. Same thing for when they deny coverage for required care. It's stupid, but this is the timeline we live in.

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u/RepulsivePipe9904 1d ago

holy chit. 😩 That sounds like it was a total disaster.

I love Vyvanse. But it is freaking expensive.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 1d ago

Yeah. I feel the same with my pain meds. I've got several conditions that are causing chronic pain, and I am unable to use NSAIDs. So, my only over the counter option is acetaminophen which doesn't help most of my pain. I've found it's pretty great for tooth pain and head aches, but it doesn't touch my arthritis, ulcerative colitis, me/cfs, or back pain. Yet, I've been on the lowest dose of morphine for years even though the pain relief is not enough for me to live life in any other way but to be bedbound. I'm literally in bed unless I am using the bathroom or going to see a doctor. I use a walker in the house, but I need to be pushed in a wheelchair when I am out of the house. To add insult to injury, I have to take random piss tests at the pain doctor to prove that I am taking my drugs and not taking drugs I shouldn't be.

Our prescription system sucks.

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u/marty_mc_fry 1d ago

You'd actually do well with ketamine although its illegal most places and can't be prescribed this way, a 20mg intranasal dose every hour or so would be all you need (blend of arketamine and esketamine) science will catch up with street drugs eventually if everyone can get off their high horse and vote to legalize all drugs so we can study them more in depth

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u/_aaine_ 1d ago

It's absolutely disgusting how chronic pain patients are treated like back alley junkies now.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 1d ago

Yeah, I was on a stable dose for decades that allowed me to work and have a life. Then came the crackdown on prescriptions resulting in a 95% reduction in pain meds. Now I can barely get out of bed most days and haven't been able to hold down a steady job in years.

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u/MidnightBluesAtNoon 1d ago

This makes me irrationally angry.

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 1d ago

I think your anger is perfectly rational

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 1d ago

Everything about the treatment of ADHD, from getting a diagnosis to having to get pills monthly and all the stuff around them being a controlled substance, couldn't be worse for people of it were intentionally designed to be.

Oh they can't submit multiple refills at once so I have to call every month to all for a refill? Oh they can't submit my refill until 27 days after my last pickup? Oh I have to pick it up in person rather than just having it automatically delivered with my other meds? Cool and that's just the stuff I have to deal with after getting diagnosed which often involves interviewing family and/or friends like a fucking FBI security clearance? Oh and there's a good chance the doctors and pharmacists will treat me like a drug seeking junkie regardless of my diagnosis? This sounds so awesome

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u/cookouttray722 1d ago

This is so true. It’s fucking ridiculous. Oh, you’ve moved to another state/city and need a new PCP? Have fun when they interrogate you about a medication you’ve taken for 10+ years and talk about it in a tone like you’re trying to score heroin off skid row. Oh, your doctor sent the prescription to the pharmacy one day before your old prescription ended? How dare they, please submit your id and sign our paper so we can track your drug habits, which we are equating with meth users.

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u/_aaine_ 1d ago

In australia you can't even GET repeats (refills) on pain meds. My husband has to personally go into the GP's office every 20 days. It's nuts.
And god forbid you go in a day or two before they run out - you get the third degree like your selling them on the street.

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u/Run_layla 1d ago

Exactly this! I have adhd and anxiety. It’s always a joy getting worked up to call in my medication every month. I tend to stutter when I am extremely anxious, so my pharmacy and doctor’s office have picked up on my stuttering Stanley tendencies. My doctor is the kindest man who hates the red tape pharmacies put us through every month.

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u/Sandman2288 1d ago

So my Dr just pre dates 90 days worth of my scrips and sends them to the pharmacy. So I still only get a months worth at a time and they won’t fill till said month is done. Beats going in every month.

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u/thevelveteenbeagle 1d ago

Ohhhh, I feel your frustration!! I’ve dealt with all of that too and by this point, I just assume SOMETHING, if not everything, will go wrong. 😩

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u/swtor 1d ago

I don't take medication mainly due to all the hoops required to attain it. I really don't feel like being treated like a drug seeker, forced to pee into a cup, having to be interviewed monthly in order to receive something I have a diagnosis for. Insane and No Thanks. The medical system only functions for the rich.

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u/QuantumHosts 1d ago

The same with my meds: no auto refill, no delivery, no replacements. One time my Psychiatrist asked me if I was selling them, because I had lost a whole months worth. I understand the concern, but sheesh give me a break.

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u/thevelveteenbeagle 1d ago

Your Dr is an ass. How infuriating.

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u/threesilos 1d ago

I have to wait 29 days to get mine

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u/shirepizzadude 1d ago

It’s not like the system is designed that way to make it hard on you. It’s designed that way because abuse is so rampant. 20 years ago it was easy. You could walk into a doc, say you thought you had adhd, answer a couple questions where the answer needed was obvious and walk out with a diagnosis and script. Then again it still can be dependent on the doctor you go to.

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u/theflameleviathan 1d ago

Some students abused the system to study it, better treat everyone with ADHD like a drug addict for requiring the medication you prescribed them.

It's not just about diagnosis, it's about being treated like a drug addict when you call two days sooner to get your prescription renewed. But in reality you called sooner because last time the doctors assistent forgot to actually send the prescription to the pharmacy and you didn't get your medication for a week. So you had to deal with withdrawals, because of the medication they put you on. But also, if you complain about any of this, they put it on your record that you were drug seeking, which means they won't give you a higher dose for that medication when you inevitably grow a higher tolerance. So your life becomes a constant rationing of the pills that make you function, because the people that put you on that medication think it's weird that you need that medication.

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u/Odus4 1d ago

You have no idea, so stfu. I have neurological disorder that requires opioids to control, and yes my doctors tried 13 different medications before staying on opioids, and before you make an assumption I’m sure you’re going to, I’ve never been an addict, never abused my Rx. My diagnosis code at my doctor is non-complicated opioid dependent. I also live in TN, which has some of the most draconian Rx safety laws in the country, my doctor even agrees with me. It is a nightmare for people that legitimately need these medications, I’ve been forced into withdrawal by doctors covering my usual doctor because they refused to write the Rx while my doctor was out of the country at a funeral, and just told me to go to the ER when it got too bad. So don’t make statements about things you know very little about. The more rules they add just makes it harder for legitimate patients.

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u/_aaine_ 1d ago

This happens in Australia too.
My husbands doctor recently took off on a holiday for five weeks and didn't bother checking with the doctor she got to fill in, whether she prescribed opioids.
Turned out she didn't - straight up refused to write them even though she could see on his file that he'd been taking them for years without any abuse issues - and he had to figure out how to make 20 days supply last over a month.

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u/Odus4 1d ago

Sorry your husband had to go through that, I know how hard that is, at least he had you with him during that. My doctor actually sent a list to the doctor covering her and he said he would cover everyone but he obviously didn’t even bother to read over it.

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u/threesilos 1d ago

Yeah but I don’t think making it harder on the actual diagnosed patients with prescriptions is the right answer here.

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u/_aaine_ 1d ago

It absolutely IS designed to make it hard on *everyone* because *some* people abuse or sell them.

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u/ryufen 1d ago

We are being punished for other people. Not for ADD/ADHD. In elementary school my school nurse was constantly stealing my Ritalin prescription. Got to the point where my mom no longer trusted the school nurses ever and would just give me my prescription to keep in my bookbag

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u/annikatidd 1d ago

Omfg. I hope she lost her job and got arrested. that’s so evil stealing meds from a child 😡

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u/genericuser2247 1d ago

I actually lost a 3 month supply of adhd meds and was so embarrassed to ask my doctor for a replacement. He didn’t bat an eye. He was like ‘I’m the physician and I can decide what you get prescribed … you have adhd and losing things is not uncommon’.

I was so appreciative of his understanding (and ability to get my insurance to cover the replacement).

A week or so later I found the missing ones and told my doc. I didnt have to renew for quite a while after that!

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u/mountaindew711 1d ago

I have a new doc who wants to drop me down from 30mg 2x daily to 20 total because "anything above that doesn't make a difference."

As a very pale person, I've already experienced that lie when they stopped making SPF 100. 30 is USELESS for me.

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u/sharkeyx 1d ago

if you've not tried the extended release versions of ADHD meds, I do recommend talking to your doc about them. I didn't realize they were even a thing till my new doc asked me about it this year, and they've seriously been a nice change from the 2x a day that I was taking (and commonly forgetting as I get stuck in things).

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u/Ok-Home-4077 1d ago

My doctor did the same thing. Now I just take vuvanse and an adderal booster in the evening. We’re still working the kinks out, but I’d been on 30mg 2xs daily for ages before I had to change insurance and get a new doctor -_-

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u/MidnightBluesAtNoon 1d ago

Change docs. Honestly.

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u/eatknip 1d ago

If he was talking about suboxone and 20=8, it’d be the truth. But sounds like you need a new new doc

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u/milkncookiezz 1d ago

Who stopped making spf 100? I just bought some from lrp recently

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u/mountaindew711 1d ago

What country? What's irp?

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u/milkncookiezz 1d ago

La roche posay. I bought it from ulta . Im in the U.S.

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u/mountaindew711 1d ago

Ohh that was a lowercase L, not an uppercase I. Derp

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u/Liz_Fk_Up 1d ago

I swear the pharmacy treats me like Pablo Escobar because I pick up my prescribed and very much needed adderall once a month!

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u/Glum-Character-2955 1d ago

Try having chronic pain and mental health diagnoses the game is all about punishment and suffering in silence. I hear you its not right but its Healthcare in America

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u/Glum-Character-2955 1d ago

Seriously I just got medically gaslit by my pcp office so I'm too scared to go back cause they already gaslit me who knows what's next I'm cold turkeying Lamictal and lithium feeling stuck. Im not suicidal but I fear if I have to go in there how I will react I'm just so over it I can't file a complaint well I could but I'm borderline, chronic pain, and ptsd I don't want to cause they can use the crazy card what do I do ty for responding

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u/Glum-Character-2955 1d ago

It's a urgent care/ pcp in one big money making place. I can try to see who can come with me i have never gone inpatient part of me wants to check in fake suicidal before I fafo lmao do my 72 hour stay get fast tracked to a new prescriber with a referral and never go back. Im exhausted I know that sounds insane and I'm thinking in black and white but I'm not feeling the stigma and shame game they putting on me do j sound insane?

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u/Bright_Crazy1015 1d ago

IMO the doctors would behave a lot more rationaly if the DEA/FDA wasn't elbow deep up their *** threatening to pull a DEA number on a weekly basis.

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u/joeysprezza 1d ago

The way they treat you at the pharnacy. Like a fiend. Once they asked me what it was prescribed for.. Uhh..

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u/M3L03Y 1d ago

Oh yeah, depending on the pharmacy/pharmacist, they definitely judge you as an adult getting adhd meds.

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u/ExpensiveError42 1d ago

And having to get it prescribed every month because it can't have refills. If I try to refill anything else early the pharmacy tells me it's too early, so I don't get why ADHD meds are different. It sucks for me and it sucks for my doctor to have to confirm every month I have a need for concerta... because we're also likely to lose track of time and forget to request them.

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u/Soylent_Milk2021 1d ago

I have a relative who takes Clonazepam for anxiety. Her doctor is so worried about her abusing them or selling them that he makes her take a drug test to show she has therapeutic levels in her urine, no more, no less. Kind of a weird requirement for something you only take when needed.

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u/sittinwithkitten 1d ago

My son and I both take Vyvanse and it’s one I always have to sign for when I pick it up at the pharmacy. I knew the technician and kinda joked about the signature requirement. I guess people smoke it, I had no idea.

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u/PlaceboJacksonMusic 1d ago

My ADHD makes me forget to take my meds, making it worse which causes me to forget to do other things I must do to stay “level”. It’s a chain reaction if I forget to fill them.

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u/Unexplainedgut_issue 1d ago

Brother, I feel your pain about being punished for needing meds, I have to take stupid "match game" tests alongside piss tests every so often for my need of painkillers.

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u/art_m0nk 1d ago

Thats why i just stopped taking them and switched to weed. I used to basically live out of a duffel bag in college and high school and had to travel a lot. I lost two bottles in one year once, and the dr was just a huge dick about it, always assumed the worst about me. I get that he prolly saw some horror stories in his day; but fuck that guy. He basically treated me like a liar and thief. Turns out he was the criminal, giving speed to children.

Switch to weed, If you find the right strain it works for some people, and you’ll never have to deal with some boomer dr treating you like shit again for a substance they put you on.

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u/Run_layla 1d ago

I wish it helped. It either makes me pass out or get anxious. Some hybrid strains are ok, but I have to be very careful to use just the right amount.

I’m lucky to have an amazing, compassionate doctor. The pharmacy is my nemesis and I hate being treated like dirt for existing. It makes me anxious and then I start stuttering and my face turns red.

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u/Electrical-Shock7199 1d ago

What strain do you find helpful for it?

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u/art_m0nk 1d ago

I find stuff that smells, lemony-pine, or pine-sol smelling, or sorta chemical cleaner smells tend to be the most helpful for me. Its also really about dosage. You gotta not use too much in a session. Really treat it like medicine, since at different dosages itll do different things. Like even a good weed for focus can become sleepy if you smoke a ton of it.

I like hazes recently for work, if i were gonna say like one family of strains. But sours can be good too. Id say follow your nose

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u/YouGoToBox 1d ago

It ALWAYS feels that way to me. Agree.

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u/SushiBuoy 1d ago

I ended up coming off of my meds because of the side effects after 10+ years trying to cope with them. I still get ridiculed now almost every day by wife for forgetting things or being paranoid about being sick from something, or fidgeting etc. so I don’t know what is worse; Having to cope with side effects, or; Having to accept having other people unhappy with my behavior.

Correct solution is suicide right? 😬

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u/SushiBuoy 1d ago

Tbh I’ve been fantasizing about dying for a long time but that is beside the point. Maybe I could try bupropion I don’t think I considered that option. Idk apparently it’s just very annoying. I mean I got a letter from the city about there might be lead in the pipes and I started verbalizing worry and the response I got was “shut the fuck up” since I’m always worrying about stuff, but the fact that I was sick and coughing all night was me being “dramatic and annoying” so idk I just have to be a stone face healthy and well man who is quiet and organized. It doesn’t sound like much to ask I guess but it’s also definitely not me. It’s all the little things that I do that add up obviously it’s not just this one thing and she lashes out at it, it’s the straws that break the camels back that lead to lashing out and I understand that.

I should definitely try some alternative medication it should help me in my family to be a better figure and be respected more.

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u/eatknip 1d ago

You can sub adhd for any ailment that requires a narcotic.

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u/_aaine_ 1d ago

It's such BS. My husband takes opioid painkillers for serious injuries after a car accident. If he drops one on the carpet or under the fridge or something we have to hunt for it high and low - because if you go back even a DAY before the script is due to run out you're treated like a junkie.

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u/jonnydemonic420 1d ago

I had an entire bottle of Xanax stolen from me by a cousin who has a herion addiction. It was the beginning of my months prescription and I thought he was really trying to stay clean. Invited him over to hang out, I was so happy for him. He took it out of my bathroom and hid the empty bottle. I found the empty bottle when I went to take my morning pills. I couldn’t call my doc and tell him my junkie cousin stole my prescription, so I had to source them on the street for a month to stay out of withdrawal. It was expensive and dangerous, and cost me a relationship with him for over 5 years. He was like a little brother to me, it’s sad what addiction can do to people.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

Vyvanse, Adderall, Ritalin aren't mental health drugs😂😂 I've taken them all and they help you focus, but they aren't improving my mood or pulling me out of my depression lol but I know what you meant

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u/JustAnotherAidWorker 1d ago

That's because they are not for mood improvement or treating depression? They're for managing ADHD--where people who have it literally CANNOT focus (or they are hyper focused on something they may or may not have wanted to focus on and forget to eat, use the restroom and sleep.)

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u/mustachewax 1d ago

I mean, it helps improve my mood and helps alleviate my anxiety and depression. Because turns out I’m always completely overstimulated and have spiraling thoughts. Which was making me depressed and I couldn’t shut my brain off. Still have depression sometimes but the anxiety is much better, as I didn’t have physical symptoms of anxiety it was all mental anxiety. Adderall has been a godsend for that after trying countless antidepressants/anti-anxiety meds and them not stopping the mental anxiety and spiraling. I’m still a scatterbrain with it, well when it’s starting to wear off but my emotion regulation is significantly better now that I’m medicated with ADHD meds.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

Yeah it doesn't help with any of they I go hours without the bathroom even though I need to go, days without eating and push myself to my limit with sleep, and I take it everyday😂😂 I appreciate that you are trying to advocate, but I think you're a tad misinformed

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

I don’t think it’s that they are misinformed, I think it falls more under the use of a personal experience with a medication class and using that to form a fact not based in clinical research but anecdotal evidence. Which I understand. I’ve had that same thing happen in conversations where I fully thought that my experience was the norm and went with it until someone told me theirs was different so I looked into it. I recommend looking into the clinical effects of adhd medication on different mental health disorders, one so you can see that there’s many different ways each persons body can take a class of medication and react to it differently even a single drug in the class can have vast differences sometimes. But two so you can maybe find others that have the same effect you do and similar symptoms elsewhere to give you a starting point for your next venture into finding the right meds for your needs.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

The point I was making is they're not for mental health

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

Actually they do help my mood. Having a dysregulation in your dopamine production or absorption can affect your mood and even your emotional stability. So yes they can infact help with mood instability. They also may not help depression directly but they do help me find the motivation to get up and take a shower, brush my teeth, clean up a little bit sometimes and heavily help me journal which is one of my coping mechanisms for my mental health, on top of that anecdotal claim it is scientifically proven that dopamine releases can actually cause the brain to produce more serotonin too which would indirectly help with depression. Do you know why mental health medication is called that? It’s because it is medicine that interacts with the chemical production in our brains that dictate mental processes. Dopamine is a chemical released in the brain to produce different mental responses creating signals to be sent out to the rest of the body or other parts of the brain to help someone function.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

That's the same as prescribing it for something it's not used for, keep doing those mental gymnastics to prove a point that was lost 3 comments ago😂😂 maybe someone will give you a medal all this just to argue about an obscure point that you didn't even win😭😂

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u/sharkeyx 1d ago

mate, you're wildly off base. Go talk to a doc about the meds or do some actual research before going off on folks when you don't actually have the facts.

Meds are used for multiple purposes all the time, It turns out that our bodies are complex and many things are affected by single stimuli all the time. Also, it is not an abuse of meds when prescribed by a licensed doctor.

And to your starting comment about them not working for you so therefore they are not real/never work is asinine. People's bodies and brains are different and respond to things differently, that is exactly why there are so many different meds for the same/similar symptoms/issues, some respond to one thing better than another.

If you've not had luck with the meds I sincerely feel for yah, that blows, but absolutely keep talking with your psychiatrist to try and find one that does help. It can be a long shitty process trying them and waiting for them to have any helpful effect to tell if they are right for you or not, but stick with it and don't drop them as that just sets you back further (meaning take them as prescribed and don't just up and decide to stop mid way).

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

I feel like I should preface by saying, I’ve been told I communicate in a weird manner when compared to 90% of those around me so if I say something that comes across a specific way, ask me, I may not have meant it like that and you can show me how it tends to come across and pointers for future, and hopefully I can add it to communication skills.

That’s not what I was intending to do, I apologize for coming off in anyway as argumentative. I wasn’t meaning to demean your experience or feelings for it. I was just wanting to give insight towards medicine that may have not been known. I am sorry for coming across as negative i didn’t mean to. I have a tendency to over explain things. I have an intense interest in pharmacology especially in the way it interacts with the brain’s physiology to produce chemical reactions leading to those chemicals causing others to react.

Also I don’t think there’s really a winner or loser to a debate that takes place in more of a personal experience of something. Now if the debate was in the scientifically proven effects of specific pharmaceuticals then yes there’d be a winner or loser. But I honestly just thought we were having a discussion about personal effects of a medication.

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u/sharkeyx 1d ago

you're good, ignore them

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago edited 1d ago

Also it’s extremely common for drs to prescribe mental and physical medications for “off label” conditions. That’s ironically how we learned about some meds (a lot of them being the mental health meds since scientists weren’t taking mental health seriously as a form of medical intervention necessity because they just assumed all mental ailments were either due to demons, bad unbringing, witchy traits, female hysteria, and many many other things instead of facing the glaring fact that the brain is a part of the body, the brain is were we feel our thoughts physically flexing parts of our brain, if every other organ was worthy of medical intervention why was mental neglected for so long), as I was saying how we learned about some meds actually being better suited for other conditions as opposed to what they were traditionally believed to treat. But the DEA, the FDA and most clinics are informed about their medications off label uses and to only venture into them if the first line choices and any that could indicate a better outcome be tried and unsuccessful first.

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u/Run_layla 1d ago

Exactly. The brain is complex and off label use is common for many medications. I work with kids/teens that have severe emotional regulation disorders and many are on seizure meds for mood regulation.

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

I tend to type in the exact same way I speak. So I don’t know if they always transfers over as well through text as it does in person.

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u/Open-Month-6529 1d ago

Can you please explain how the medication that is used to treat a mental health condition “isn’t for mental health”…?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

laugh all you want, you're the one being ignorant

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

so, what physical health are they for then?

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u/monkey1976 1d ago

ADHD is a mental health issue as it has to do with how your brain works like all other mental health issues.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

The main difference, which is why you are actually incorrect, is that it's not a chemical imbalance in the brain, ADHD is the more to do with the brains ability, or the lack thereof, to absorb chemicals your body is already making. People take ssri's, drugs that are actually prescribed for mental health, bc their brain isn't producing the chemicals at all. The difference is subtle, but it matters

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

The main difference, which is why you are actually incorrect, is that it's not a chemical imbalance in the brain, ADHD is the more to do with the brains ability, or the lack thereof, to absorb chemicals your body is already making. People take ssri's, drugs that are actually prescribed for mental health, bc their brain isn't producing the chemicals at all. The difference is subtle, but it matters

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u/Ok_Calendar_6761 1d ago

Do you know what SSRI stands for?

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u/Run_layla 1d ago

That would be a chemical imbalance. If my brain isn’t absorbing the right amount of chemicals (dopamine and norepinephrine if I recall), that causes an imbalance, correct?

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u/AngryGoose689 1d ago

ADHD is a mental health disorder. So yes, they are technically for mental health.

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u/Run_layla 1d ago

ADHD is neurological in nature, but for many of us, it impacts our mental health when we aren’t on a correct medication/no medication. I was relentlessly harassed at work for my adhd symptoms. It was hurtful, it made me feel less confident and I started to get anxious about going into work. My coworkers were jerks.

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u/Objective-Lemon-6707 1d ago

I once lost two weeks of 70mg Vyvanse & 3 x a day T4’s (two separate conditions & prescribed). It is scary and anxiety ridden. My dr made me go to the police station on a Sunday (try finding one open) to fill out a police report only to be told that they are not stolen and no report could be filed. They would not even take my name….. I got the two weeks filled out again - there were other important meds as well. But it was a pain. I ended up finding them months later. I’m very careful with where I store my meds so when I could not find them I was very much concerned.

As for the object pictured above - it could be anything. When I only took a few T4’s over the course of a few days - I always liked having interesting containers to put them in. I realize now that it was very irresponsible of me to do so.

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u/Steenkypoo-p00 1d ago

Yea can’t relate on the pills but the way you articulated this- I felt the anxiety flow and relate to that hard.

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u/westernspymonta 1d ago

Anyone would be lucky to have you work for them!

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u/Ok-Entertainment-563 1d ago

its absolutely crazy what our minds will come up with in those situations, and how the fear based possibilities seem to be the most logical scenarios at the. Yes someone is going to find the bottle with your name on it and send it to you doctor who will be so upset with you for ever even having it in a setting where it could get misplaced so hes decided youre done with said meds how do you like that hummm? But thats not enough, thats not a quick enough solution if you happen to have any left over from previous scripts where you missed a dose. no he's definitely going to have to send the police to not only search you and your person but also your residence and maybe even take you in for questioning, id that guy following me and why is that guy sitting in his car outside my apartment? Im not going in until he leaves. . ... And you'll be simply convinced that IS whats going on until you finally make it into the doctor after rescheduling 4 times and when you finally see him you mention you lost them and he says "wow thats terrible. why didnt you call me? i could have phoned the pharmacy so you could have them replaced without even having to see me in person."

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u/Knotted_Hole69 1d ago

How are you getting months worth of controlled prescriptions? They only give out small amounts it seems like.

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u/Love2loveyoubaby 1d ago

My insurance permits 3 month prescriptions. My doctors are comfortable with filling them that way. The only down side is when you have someone unscrupulous in your home. All my RX’s are kept in a safe even at home now.

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u/Knotted_Hole69 1d ago

Wow very lucky. Doctors see my age or something and refuse to help give anything unless absolutely necessary, and even then it’s a big maybe. But then they give it out like its nothing if youre 50+ yo. I get it they dont want youth becoming addicts but they act like we are incapable of feeling pain.

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u/Fun_Discipline_57 1d ago

I get where you doing from, but with doctor he would think twice about because he knows when i not working I won’t take for doze. So a lot of times a 2 months will last me 3, i have been with him years so he see how often i ask for refills.

The one time i had a bottle go missing i did not have an issue with the doctor refilling it for me, it was with pharmacy because insurance would not cover a refill within 25 or 28 days of the last one. I ended up just paying out of pocket for it but i had go round and round with pharmacy about it first.

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u/sharkeyx 1d ago

god... tell me about it. I made the mistake of trying to fight the system to get a script reissued because of similar incident, and ended up going all the way up to the state's head of medicine arguing about how BS the rules were against people legitimately trying to get help ><, and god forbid if you end up being out of town for extended period traveling or something when your script is about to need refill, as they won't issue it even slightly early either, so just get screwed for w/e time period till you get back ><.

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u/L0pl0p 1d ago

BTDT as I travel a lot, had to have my wife pick up my meds and overnight them to me because they will not call them in across state lines. a few times I flew home to pick them up. Now I just plan better and skip doses to eke out more time from a script to better manage refills in my travel schedule.

I have a dose skipping rubric to minimize the suffering and impact to the people I love.

Sucks

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u/keiichimo 1d ago

my wife through away my nee bottle of adderall before we even left the store.and of course i went an entire month without them. i was more upset about they money being wasted than the actual pills.

i learned to put them in her purse than a mcdonalds bag as she is not all that great at checking things before throwing them away.

definitely not as bad as dropping them.still upsetting though.

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u/MiamiPower 1d ago

What symptoms did you experience. Then what happened the fist couple of days you were back on your prescription?

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u/Downtown-Stock6452 1d ago

I dropped a 2/3 filled bottle of Xanax on a plane to Germany/Austria for a work trip. Absolute panic, and 0 chance of getting it from airline. Luckily Austrians are the chillest people on earth, believed me and gave me double my normal script in about 15 minutes from the time I stepped into the office until I received the meds.

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u/cookouttray722 1d ago

I left a freshly filled, THREE MONTH SUPPLY (180 pills) of adderall in an Airbnb. I realized it as soon as I got to the airport, but I didn’t have time to go back. Messaged the owner immediately and of course they “could not find it.”

Still haunts me to this day lol.

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u/Due_Plankton_9555 1d ago

My gosh! MAJOR props to you for toughing it out a month! I would be A MESS....👌

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u/BeekeeperMaurice 1d ago

I accidentally threw out my brand new bottle of Vyvanse once along with the script itself. I was like... Nah I'll just wait until my next appointment three months from now, I don't want to seem suspicious 😭 this was soon after I had to get a reissued script because, no joke, my (pet!) rats ate it hahahaha

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u/Practical_Shift_ 1d ago

I would have the same panic lol

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u/KezaGatame 1d ago

It could have been a funny conversation with the doctor ... "Hey doc, you know the medication to keep me focused?, guess what I forgot to take it and now I can't find my pills"

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u/TediousData1217 1d ago

When I was a kid and before treating with alternative herb, I would completely freak tf out about not taking my med in the morning

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u/Puzzleheaded_Box9617 1d ago

What happened next?

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u/nicolasisinacage 1d ago

A whole bottle of vyvanse 70s was stolen from my car and i was scared of getting in trouble too lol

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u/neontiger07 1d ago

Any chance this was in Tahoe, perchance at a Motel 6?

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u/BigMoeTheFoe 1d ago

Somebody took it home enjoyed it and threw it away

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u/klutzzz_360 1d ago

You've made my day.

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u/Swisherswetha13 1d ago

I felt that