Rough week...

Hope everyone is having a good Saturday.

Haven't posted in awhile. Feeling pretty low and in so much pain this week. We've had a cold front come in and been in the 20s low 30s most days...today 45-50. I love winter and snow etc. but anymore it triggers intense pain so it's miserable. Tomorrow the high is 23 and snowy. Ugh. On another note, my meds were raided. We were at a large function out of town and I had them with me in my purse. I usually lock them in glovebox when I'm out of town. My purse was on the back of the chair I was sitting in...& what I had with me was stolen. I don't understand how it happened whoever did it was sneakier than my thinking however. I will run out long before my dr appt on the 3rd. I don't know what to say to dr but the truth obviously. Sigh to much time on my hands to think about it though. Doesn't help!
Just a long bit of complaining today...thanks for being here!

Cheri

Ya I'm realizing I need to be even more careful than ever. I guess I'll have to start wearing a sweater with pockets all the time. I've just never thought at church or a dinner I'd have to be so concerned . Lol I need to become much more careful. I'm borderline cynical and this is putting me over the edge....

Fighting I hope you at least filed a report and let your Dr know whats going on even if the meds cannot be replaced. It's important here to understand that the Dr's who prescribe these meds are as legally responsible for where they end up as you are. When you enter into a agreement with your Dr prescribing he is trusting that you will take only as he directs you to,take precautions to prevent them from ending up in anyone else's hands,and failing that he expects to be informed. If your meds were in the bottle labeled as the law says they must be and that med fell into the hands of say kids and they died taking them, that Dr's going to get called before you are. At that point you haven't reported them missing they have to assume you knowingly put them in those kids hands. You can find yourself in hot water of the worst kind legally not to mention no more PM.

Ask your pharmacist, everyone men as well to make you a purse /pocket bottle labelled with your original label and take only what you need with you when you travel for even a day. Keep it in your pocket or bra or buy a soft cloth money belt type thing, Walgreens use to carry them but haven't looked in awhile. If you don't have pockets get some type of long chain or necklace and a small pouch can be added, I have one like sunglasses come in but smaller that came with jewelry of some kind and wear it under your shirt.

We take these meds at doses that are lethal to non-opiate tolerant people meaning what I can take at once is not going to do more than get me relief but could be deadly to someone else!! You would surely not leave a loaded gun hanging on the back of your chair and our meds can be just as deadly.

Here awhile back two 17 yr old kids got the idea to riffle through the trash dumpsters at the methadone clinic and they drank the watered down remnants of several bottles and they both died. By the time the first responders could figure out what was wrong with them it was too late to reverse it's effects. Their tox screen showed no more then approximately 25 mgs ingested? I took 4 times that amount on any given day. The clinic had to go to incinerator methods and because the tox screen was as low as it was and they had followed protocol of rinsing bottles the legal and civil suit's were thrown out.

Just an example to show how little it could take in the wrong hands.

Believe me I know the ramifications of this situation. I never carry my original bottle with me . I have one I carry for travel and it had 10 days worth. That's still a lot of meds though. I cannot leave them where I was staying because most cannot be trusted there either. My son in law is a police officer in north Richland hills / Keller areas. I've been home a week now and really don't know if I can do anything about it since time has passed. Waiting for him to call me back. I didn't realize until I got home that night that they were gone.