Puuuuuuulese!!

HeartsOpenWide, RN · Aug 2, 2005

my MIL saves them (antibiotics) and uses them all the time for various reasons ..tries to pawn them off on her son ..and OUR son ...little one
I am so freaked out by that ...she is not on the same wavelength and there is a language barrier so i chalk it up to cultural differences.. I try to educate but it goes out the window :uhoh21:

We have a low income family, the woman will call and say she needs more antibiotics because her son took all hers...ok VERY RARELY do they loose antibiotics :chuckle

I had a woman lose the script for her sons ADHD med (TRIP med) and I knew this woman was just going to lose it again, poor kid. I went ahead and droped if off at the pharm on my lunch break myself...some times you have to go the extra mile... :rolleyes:

NoCrumping · Aug 2, 2005

I work in an office setting so I often see notes come across my desk or get phone calls regarding medications.What are your favorite excuses why a patient needs their narcotics filled early?
Mine:
"I dropped my Vicodin in a mud puddle and they instantly evaporated!"
"I was vacuuming with the hose and accidentally sucked up the bottle, I tried to shake it out and by the time I got the vacuum shut off all the pills were powder!"
"I dropped them in the boat motor..."
How come no one ever loses their antibiotics?!?!

Heres one I heard........ "I am going on a vacation for 3 weeks, and I need another script, or I will run out while I am there"

Quailfeather · Aug 2, 2005

Our local pain clinic has had so many patients claim that their narcotics were "stolen" that they have instituted a new policy. Any patient presenting for a refill because of stolen meds must also provide a police report of the theft (much to the dismay of our local law enforcement who have better things to do than listen to trumped-up stories).

Jo Dirt · Aug 2, 2005

The dog ate my prescription.

ceecel.dee, MSN, RN · Aug 2, 2005

Bottle spilled in sink, dropped in toilet, or how bout this one...bottle left in car (hot) so pills lost strength so I threw them out!

zacarias, ASN, RN · Aug 5, 2005

my MIL saves them (antibiotics) and uses them all the time for various reasons ..tries to pawn them off on her son ..and OUR son ...little one
I am so freaked out by that ...she is not on the same wavelength and there is a language barrier so i chalk it up to cultural differences.. I try to educate but it goes out the window :uhoh21:

Print for your MIL a few articles on antiobiotic resistance and "superbugs" and maybe she will get the picture.

LoriAlabamaRN · Nov 8, 2005

I had a patient who stated that he had filled his 60-count Vicodin but gotten the generic kind which made him nauseous so he "threw them away" and wanted a new prescription so he could have it filled with the name-brand pills.

Annor · Nov 8, 2005

I work in an office setting so I often see notes come across my desk or get phone calls regarding medications.What are your favorite excuses why a patient needs their narcotics filled early?
Mine:
“I dropped my Vicodin in a mud puddle and they instantly evaporated!”
“I was vacuuming with the hose and accidentally sucked up the bottle, I tried to shake it out and by the time I got the vacuum shut off all the pills were powder!”
“I dropped them in the boat motor…”
How come no one ever loses their antibiotics?!?!

Here is mine

Just gave a pt a written prescription for Vicodin ES and antibotic......she called about 10 minutes after her appt...saying

"""my Vicodin ES prescription flew away . I big wind came and blew it out of my hand ,while I was waiting at the bus stop""'

She stated...her antibotic presc...she still had.......

OH please......give me a break!!!:uhoh21:

UGH!

shopgal, RN · Nov 8, 2005

Before I became a nurse, I was a pharmacy tech and we had a drug seeking mother and her son amazingly enough had all of these ailments that she needed to come and pick up meds for him and we always knew that they were for her because she was higher than a kite when she came in, but she must have loved his Ritilan because that was the one that was always mysteriously misplaced, my favorite line was that "they were in the car and the car got so hot that they melted together and she tried to piece them back together into pills, but they magically disinigrated into thin air" this was when we asked her to bring in the "mass of melted pills" Can you say Munchousen's Syndrome?

Lisa CCU RN, RN · Nov 8, 2005

Oh they only lose antibiotics when they are for their kids. Heaven knows we wouldnt want mom or dad to be inconvienced to STAY HOME with their sick kid. Antibiotics cure everything dont they?

Well, if we stay home with our sick kids, then we are bad employees. I'm sorry, but I've read so much on this board lately about being a terrible person for wanting to either stay safe, as in not driving when there is ice on the roads, wanting to keep others safe, as in not coming to work when we are contagious and infecting all the other patients and co-workers, and wanting to care for our children, as when they are sick. I swear, employers act as if we are machines.:angryfire

SouthernLPN2RN, MSN, RN, APRN, NP · Nov 8, 2005

We once had a mom bring son's old adhd meds in because "They no longer worked". Lid to bottle glued in place, she says it was because he would take them all. When we got the bottle open, it contained a mix of clonidine and dummy OC's.

Nurse-o-Matic · Nov 8, 2005

Ever hear this one.....

"I just moved here from ______ and I forgot to have my prescriptions filled before I came." The Prescriptions needed are never things like BP, GERD, or heart meds. They are always "my xanax, oxycodone, anexsia, and valium." Hmmmmm.... "Also, the doc I used to see is no longer in practice and the office is out of business." Yeah, right.

Also have heard these:

My house was robbed

I never filled the prescription

Bottle fell out of my car somewhere

Dropped the pills in the snow