just need to vent

Don't keep them on the nightstand. Most homes have a medicine chest, we have one, and we have a bathroom closet that looks more like a small pharmacy. But due to children over the years, and grandchildren, and the possibility of doing things by mistake in your sleep, we keep everything up from casual reach.

We keep our medications in the medicine cabinet (in a bathroom we don't take showers in....the one for showers does not have a medicine cabinet). Same thing, looks a bit like a pharmacy.

My Husband and I are pretty isolated, we don't socialize often or have people just dropping by (well, rarely at any rate).

My Husband routinely has LAN parties and I resign myself to another part of the house so he and "The Boys" can just go wild downstairs. But note: I have a lock box for all of my meds that all my prescriptions go into, and they are removed from the downstairs bathroom, which is the primary one The Boys would be using.

Interestingly enough, when his friends visit, (a few he's known since college mind you), some of them also have medical problems, and they bring their Rx's. They also keep them in a lock box. We're all grown adults, we all trust each other, we all have our own issues,....but it's out of preservation, safety, and respect, that we keep our medications secure and out of sight.




M.

kc,

Do you know ways to at least minimize the discomfort? Ways to ameliorate the anxiety? A number of us aren't able to eliminate it, but we find ways to at least make it manageable. I ask because if you don't know helpful tips, it probably isn't realistic that he can figure them out by himself, either.

If you know of things that can be said or done that would be helpful, are you able to ask your partner for their help? (Caveat: Never do this while you're in the midst of an attack! I learned that one the hard way. But bring up a discussion when you two are doing well and maybe out to dinner so it's a public place, requiring etiquette, and it's a neutral place, not your home).

What do you think?



M.