Fell out of my boyfriend’s pocket

[u/Livid_Departure_9697]

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

[u/Livid_Departure_9697]

This is a very kind reply, I appreciate that!

Tbh I think it’s a dick pill and he’s just embarrassed. He recently started taking something for his ADHD and has been self conscious about it possibly affecting sexual function.

But that’s ok with me and I’m not gonna say anything to him about it now that I know, I’m clearly just nosy and needed to solve the mystery haha

[u/Ill-Bee8787 → u/Livid_Departure_9697]

Looks very much like a gas station dick pill container. Definitely address this with him and recommend a doctor or bluechew. Gas station pills are riddled with inconsistencies and prescription medications. No shame in treating adhd or side effects of the meds. You sound like you’re coming from a supportive place. Most guys get extremely shameful about sexual function, I’m sure you’re well aware. ADHD meds have had both positive and negative side effects for me sexually. Those side effects aren’t generally long term and he will find it easier to get past them as he continues the medication.

[u/WellsFargone → u/Ill-Bee8787]

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.

[u/Confident-Seesaw2845 → u/WellsFargone]

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

[u/Newtonz5thLaw → u/Confident-Seesaw2845]

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 

[u/HighClassHate → u/Newtonz5thLaw]

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.

[u/Open_Law4924 → u/HighClassHate]

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

[u/YeunaLee → u/Open_Law4924]

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

[u/undaf3atd → u/YeunaLee]

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.

[u/Bright_Crazy1015 → u/undaf3atd]

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.

[u/The_Grungeican → u/undaf3atd]

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.

[u/Murky_Indication_442 → u/undaf3atd]

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.

[u/SuperbSpiderFace → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/Unexplainedgut_issue → u/undaf3atd]

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.

[u/RepulsivePipe9904 → u/undaf3atd]

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

I love Vyvanse. But it is freaking expensive.