MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Never store medicine in medicine cabinets....

> Okay, from this point forward I am never going to store general use medicines like
> sleep-aides, aspirin, anti-diarrhea pills, and prescriptions in the same cabinet. Nor
> will I allow friends who stay over to watch my house when I'm gone store their stuff
> in there.
>
> A few weeks ago, I slept on my shoulder in a funky way and it was killing me when I
> woke up. So I went in the medicine cabinet and took what I thought were a few
> aspirins when I got up to help relieve the pain. Instead, it was a few laxatives that
> I had to use when I was on vicodin for most of last year due to various broken bones
> and couldn't shit. That sucked royally.
>
> Just now, thanks to me accidentally taking some DayQuil to relieve a nasty cold I
> picked up while in Europe last week, I went to take some sleep-aides (drammamine) to
> help me fall asleep. Looks like my buddy accidentally took that bottle instead of his
> Adderall bottle when he left after watching my house for the past week while I was
> away. Looks like I'm not going to sleep tonight.
> UUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read the labels!! You could kill yourself taking the wrong dose of the wrong thing. I always do a quick double-check to make sure I'm taking what I think I'm taking.

And putting your medicines in someone else's medicine cabinet is kind of weird, unless it's some kind of long term situation. Even my shampoo goes back in the toiletries bag when I'm done with it when I'm staying at someone's house. I'd definitely tell your buddy to knock it off, especially if he can't even grab the right bottle when he leaves.