davetheplantman
11-08-2005, 12:35 PM
I am curious where people keep their pain medications located in their homes. I ask because I had never thought of this and just kept them in my bathroom drawer, but now realize from reading a few posts that even well intentioned visitors might be tempted to take such inviting medications. Any thoughts?
Dave in Seattle
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Terri43
11-08-2005, 12:48 PM
I keep my meds in my dresser and 1 weeks supply on my night stand. I don't have visiters so I don't worry about someone in my home taking them. My kids come every other weekend but would never touch them.
Terri
Terri
Gabe30
11-08-2005, 01:28 PM
Heh, funny that you started this thread. :)
I live with my parents and I know my dad has taken a few of my BT med's for his back pain. So I confronted him one day about it with my mom in the room...haha! He admitted to it and got in trouble with my mom. She told him to go get his own pain meds and he has since. :D
I have about 5-6 bottles of pain meds and muscle relaxants, etc... and I would hide them under my bed mattress, in my closet under clothes and sometimes in my shoes. LOL!!! :rolleyes:
But it's really nice now to just to be able to put my pain medication and everything on my bed stand. I always count each bottle once a week just to make sure his sticky fingers haven't been in them. And the worse part is that he is a cop too! You gotta watch those cops. ;)
My dad just got a re-fill of 120# Lortab's. I should go take a few and see if he notices. He hides them in his underwear drawer and it would look really weird if my mom saw me throwing his underwear up in the air. :jester:
Take care and hide your meds everyone! :D
Gabe
I live with my parents and I know my dad has taken a few of my BT med's for his back pain. So I confronted him one day about it with my mom in the room...haha! He admitted to it and got in trouble with my mom. She told him to go get his own pain meds and he has since. :D
I have about 5-6 bottles of pain meds and muscle relaxants, etc... and I would hide them under my bed mattress, in my closet under clothes and sometimes in my shoes. LOL!!! :rolleyes:
But it's really nice now to just to be able to put my pain medication and everything on my bed stand. I always count each bottle once a week just to make sure his sticky fingers haven't been in them. And the worse part is that he is a cop too! You gotta watch those cops. ;)
My dad just got a re-fill of 120# Lortab's. I should go take a few and see if he notices. He hides them in his underwear drawer and it would look really weird if my mom saw me throwing his underwear up in the air. :jester:
Take care and hide your meds everyone! :D
Gabe
duttin
11-08-2005, 01:42 PM
Dave,
I keep my hi-powered meds locked in my hubby's gun cabinet.I have a drug addicted nephew who was just released from juvinile prison.He use to take his mothers pills for a high.
I have teenage children and his football buddies are here every night they ask if I was opening my own drug store.I told them that I was not becoming a street pharmasist as they referred to it.
This has worked out well.It protects me and the youth that are in my home.
Toni
I keep my hi-powered meds locked in my hubby's gun cabinet.I have a drug addicted nephew who was just released from juvinile prison.He use to take his mothers pills for a high.
I have teenage children and his football buddies are here every night they ask if I was opening my own drug store.I told them that I was not becoming a street pharmasist as they referred to it.
This has worked out well.It protects me and the youth that are in my home.
Toni
eaker
11-08-2005, 02:20 PM
I keep them in my bathroom (master bath) & just a few in the kitchen cupboard , maybe 1/2 a dozen at a time. Now if anyone I suspect has sticky fingers is coming to visit (like my mom) :rolleyes: then I lock them in the file cabninent or in my husbands gun cabinent. It sure is derpressing to have to hide your meds from your family. Fortunately my Dr. believed me (since he knows my mom) the one time I had to go in early for more since I was missing like 20-30 pills. So now I am much more careful.
eaker
eaker
Terri43
11-08-2005, 02:37 PM
I went to the dollar store and got this neat weekly pill box, it has removable cases and on the back on the main box I write what pills are in each time slot. It makes it easy for me to make sure I take my pills on time and not to forget any. I think I'm going to go get 3 more and when I get my meds refilled I can do the whole month and put the extra weeks in my underware drawer. I think everyone uses their underware drawer to hide things...lol another thing I was told not to keep meds in the bathroom because of the humidity.
Terri
Terri
wirry1422
11-08-2005, 10:50 PM
I keep my meds (#120 oxycontin 20 mg's per month plus bt meds) in a small fire proof steel safe. The safe has an electronic key pad with a seven digit combination, run by four aa batteries. You simply enter the seven digits and a green light illuminates for five seconds and the lock opens. After five seconds the lock automatically locks again. If you enter the wrong combo twice, the key pad locks out for 30 seconds. If you enter the wrong number three times, it locks out for 10 minutes. It also has a low battery indicator light. And it can also be opened by a key (the keyhole is hidden behind a false plastic plate on front, and is a special round, supposidly "unpickable" lock). I keep the keys hidden far away elsewhere. The safe has two bolt holes in back and two on the bottom. I have had it bolted to a heavy duty nightstand and to the wall behind it. The safe is two by two by two feet and weighs about 30 pounds empty. I purchased the safe brand-new on ebay for about $85 including shipping, and it works marveolously and I never have to worry about visitors taking my meds, and I know a few who would like to.
OCboy03R6
11-09-2005, 12:11 AM
very detailed explination wirry lol
Chaddyfriend
11-09-2005, 01:23 AM
yea, i think i got a good mental pic off that one..lol....
kscritter16
11-09-2005, 09:17 AM
i went and bought a locking fire box & keep it under my bed, i only keep my duragesic patches in there and my bt meds in my undies drawer. it's a shame we can't trust the people we love and call family
Fibbles
11-09-2005, 01:04 PM
I keep all of my meds (pain, asthma, stomach) in the middle drawer of my nightstand, which is right next to my bed. I put my Avinza in a weekly pillbox on top of the stand and in full view of my bed so I can remember to take them; I forget all the time and have to put serious effort into taking that at the same time everyday. I also keep my Percocet bottle on top of the stand too, so if I need it it's within easy reach.
mshatch
11-14-2005, 01:49 AM
I just asked my dr about safe keeping of meds during travel. She told me to go by a lock box because if the police stop me they will think I
mshatch
11-14-2005, 01:50 AM
I just asked my dr about safe keeping of meds during travel. She told me to go by a lock box because if the police stop me they will think I AM A DEALER. She said one of her patients got arrested for counting her meds in her car.....go figure.
MsHatch
MsHatch
Drewtn
11-14-2005, 11:00 AM
Bolted safe. Sounds similar to wirry. I feel so much better now that I have it!!!
Just a reminder . . . meds usually say to keep them away from light and humidity. Bathroom is one of the worst places to keep them. (For many reasons.) Humidity, common place for visitors to easily get to and they are even locked in there with plenty of time to search.
Just a reminder . . . meds usually say to keep them away from light and humidity. Bathroom is one of the worst places to keep them. (For many reasons.) Humidity, common place for visitors to easily get to and they are even locked in there with plenty of time to search.
bethanyg
11-15-2005, 12:33 PM
I have vicodin, duagesic patches, darvocet and also the doctors put me on Lyrica which also gives me a buzz. My teenage kids said there are kids at school that sell pills like these that they steal from their parents for$10.00 - $20.00 for each pill. That is so sad. Kids also take vicodin and other pain meds and cruch them, so that they can be snorted. Hide your pills if you have kids around. Make sure you know the kids and the parents of the kids that are in your house. I trust my kids and believe that they would never take my pills as they know that I need them, but I still take caution to make sure the drugs arn't available to anyone but myself. It also isn't a good idea to keep drugs in a bathroom drawer or cabinet, because the moisture in a bathroom isn't good for the medication.
Terri43
11-15-2005, 12:40 PM
I just went out and bought a fire safe lock box also. I started thinking that alot of people in my appartment complex know that I have a back and neck injury and they can see when the community coach mini bus picks me up to take me to the doctors and they know my routine. I would hate to come home to find my meds missing. I keep my 1 week pill box next to my bed but hide the lock box with all my other meds.
Terri
Terri
ladyalaska
11-15-2005, 02:58 PM
I keep mine in my underwear drawer in my dresser. We have a big armoire type dresser and the undergarments are kept in one of the higher drawers that my son cannot reach. No one, not even my husband knows where I keep them at, and then I carry my daily doses with me in my purse. We don't even keep Tylenol in the bathroom med cabinet. We have a special drawer for all the non-script meds and a special multi drawer thing on a top shelf of a closet for script meds. Narcotic meds are the ones that are hidden. I used to carry the whole bottle thinking that was the saftest place, with me. But when my purse was stolen I realized just how foolish I had been! I have been talking to my husband about getting a fireproof lock box for various reasons, my meds being one of those reasons.
MizLiz
11-15-2005, 09:51 PM
Definitely under lock & key. Keeps everyone honest (house guests)! My son asked me the other day if there was a fire what should he try to grab from the house besides the meds? I said, "ME":) He understood the humor of it but it shows you how much our families know the importance of our pain management. Liz
Josie115
11-16-2005, 06:49 AM
I'm glad to hear mention of the lock box. I've known for some time I should get one, just never got around to it. I keep all my meds in a large tote bag. It came from one of the bath and body shops if you bought something and it slides right in behind a couch or chair. I've tried all sorts of places, and so far this works. I've had house guests who helped themselves to some vicodan. (they have not been invited back). I have a ton of meds..(i hate it)..but it helps me keep organized. I use a medicine organizer..3 weeks at a time but it doesn't hold the pain meds. I think medicine cabinets are just magnets for anyone coming over. I also think that if anyone wants to "look" for narcotics, the underwear drawer is one of the first places they look. I have had other meds stolen..(somas and valium)..so all of those are kept in this tote. It looks like something you'd put your book and towel and suntan lotion in to go to the beach. I put a couple of things on top and so far so good. I know I can at least grab and run if the house was on fire.
I just caution everyone to be careful about where they keep the stuff someone might break in and want to steal. I have some pretty good friends, but it has happened too many times that one or two of them would do something like steal from me. (I live alone so no risk of little ones). My usual problem with hiding them was that I kept forgetting where I put them! :)
I just caution everyone to be careful about where they keep the stuff someone might break in and want to steal. I have some pretty good friends, but it has happened too many times that one or two of them would do something like steal from me. (I live alone so no risk of little ones). My usual problem with hiding them was that I kept forgetting where I put them! :)
trouble3906
09-21-2006, 08:48 AM
:blob_fire I also have been broken into for my meds.I have Oc,xanax.Also i rescently where my 13 year ld descided to steal 2 and got caught with them at school.She has got a mess of problems now.I blame myself.BUT nomatter what safe i buy she got in it.I hid keys,i hid meds in walls.But i need a fool proof place.also need ideas. I LIVED IN APARTMENTS, AND IT WAS LIKE THE WHOLE PLACE KNEW MY DATES AND DOCTOR VISITS.i AM 9 YRS CHRONIC PAIN FROM THE BACK TO CLOT DAMAGES TO LEGS. AND SO ON.
trouble3906
09-21-2006, 08:52 AM
Also have anyone else heard of certain nurses or doctors workers who lets people know where and who gets certain pain meds? Its a big thing here where i live.breaking into cars after youve been to pharmacy?!
trouble3906
09-21-2006, 08:54 AM
I just went out and bought a fire safe lock box also. I started thinking that alot of people in my appartment complex know that I have a back and neck injury and they can see when the community coach mini bus picks me up to take me to the doctors and they know my routine. I would hate to come home to find my meds missing. I keep my 1 week pill box next to my bed but hide the lock box with all my other meds.
Terri
:blob_fire I gave a neighbor a bobby pin and 10 minutes to get in my safe,IT TOOK HIM 2 minutes.and it was the sentury with the round key.dont trust it.
Terri
:blob_fire I gave a neighbor a bobby pin and 10 minutes to get in my safe,IT TOOK HIM 2 minutes.and it was the sentury with the round key.dont trust it.
trouble3906
09-21-2006, 09:27 PM
I have vicodin, duagesic patches, darvocet and also the doctors put me on Lyrica which also gives me a buzz. My teenage kids said there are kids at school that sell pills like these that they steal from their parents for$10.00 - $20.00 for each pill. That is so sad. Kids also take vicodin and other pain meds and cruch them, so that they can be snorted. Hide your pills if you have kids around. Make sure you know the kids and the parents of the kids that are in your house. I trust my kids and believe that they would never take my pills as they know that I need them, but I still take caution to make sure the drugs arn't available to anyone but myself. It also isn't a good idea to keep drugs in a bathroom drawer or cabinet, because the moisture in a bathroom isn't good for the medication.yes excactly.My 13 year old tells me everyday about kids bringing parents meds to school.And it struck me then.I have controlled meds.If a teen got their hands on and dies im in trouble.Because i asked my doctor the law on it.And thats why its to be controlled.what you said here is just that.You never know.
greeneyed girl
09-22-2006, 11:36 PM
please be careful with this info you never know who might be reading this and giving them great ideas to look for meds....
trouble3906
09-26-2006, 06:48 PM
please be careful with this info you never know who might be reading this and giving them great ideas to look for meds....
TRUE!:blob_fire
TRUE!:blob_fire