She drives a BMW. No sharp teeth at all. Smooth as a tongue-depressor.
I always have scissors in my bag. I am a well prepared, girl scout kinda girl. I also have toolbox and tools the back of my suv, you just never know what might happen! I live way out in the boonies so alot of shit happens to me on the road.
I endorse this pitting.
I also save old pill bottles that are easy to open (even have a couple of simple unscrew-open ones) and will deblisterpack meds into them, suitably labeled.
Thank you, thank you all for the Pit kudos. I was feeling very lyrical yesterday.
Loperamide abuse?? 50-100 a day???!!! My gosh, I’m sorry for desperate folk who resort to these measures. One would never poop . . . again.
OTOH, it’s now inevitable that it will go the way of Sudafed and require six forms of ID and a letter from the clergy to buy or become a Scheduled drug and require a script. Cuz, ya know, without the Gubmint protection we’d all be doing lines of Imodium off hookers’ butts and robbing KFCs.
Yeah. I have sumatriptan for migraines, which comes in blister packs, and I don’t relish fighting with one when I have a headache, so I peel the Rx label off the bos of blister packs, put it on a bottle, and open all the blister packs at once.
Putting the label on the bottle is key. Not only do I like knowing how many refills I have, but I learned the hard way* that is is actually illegal to carry medicine in unlabeled packages.
*The Hard Way: I got into a car accident, and it was my fault. I fell asleep behind the wheel, and it was purely caused by a hectic life and being part of a couple with one car and incompatible schedules-- DH worked 4-midnight, I was taking a class 8-5 out of town for continuing education, and had to be up at 6am to get on the road on time.
I had several pills in a bottle in my glove compartment: Tylenol, a decongestant, Cipro (an antibiotic for a bladder infection), a bladder analgesic, Imitrex, and Detrol. None of those gets you high, not even the decongestant. But the cops didn’t know that. They were all unlabeled, and could have been ecstasy, for all the cops knew. They tossed my car and found the bottle. I got a ticket for having unlabeled drugs in my car, which is a ticketable offense all by itself. The blood test I underwent at the hospital (where I was anyway for the cut on my forehead and my sprained ankle), which I had to submit to, having crossed the center line, was completely clean, but it mattered not. I got a ticket for crossing the line, a ticket for the unlabeled drugs, and two points against my license.
I brought in all me pill bottles with the labels, and a note from my doctor, and got the drug charge dismissed, but I did have to pay the ticket for crossing the line. Also got sued by the other driver, and he lost. Well, technically, he got a judgment, which my insurance paid, but it was so small compared to his ask, and even below the settlement he’d been offered, that I put it in the win column.
TL;DR: Don’t keep pills in unlabeled bottles.
The packaging industry is one of the most lucrative in the world. It doesn’t deserve to be.
Did you know you can actually get a college degree in packaging? One of my cousins did that. She actually worked in the industry for 8 years, and made pretty good money, but she decided she wanted to do something more meaningful, so she got a second degree in nursing (she did all the work of an AA, but because she already had a BS, her degree is a BS), and is an RN; she recently got promoted to Head Nurse, day shift, of the ER where she works. I guess the way it’s set up, there’s a head nurse for each of the three shifts, then a supervisor over all of them called “Coordinating Head Nurse.”
I only have one good hand. I have learned how to use a pen to stab any package open.
I’m not sure what the problem is. I hate the blister packs too, but my solution is to buy the bottles that are right next to them on the shelf in the store. 48 pills in a bottle for the same price as 24 pills in a blister pack.
FMCG. Fast moving consumer goods.
A scenario in which the OP sees a blister pack next to a bottle of the same medication and purposely buys the blister pack, knowing it’s both more expensive and a pain in the ass to open, and then comes here to complain about it would be pretty absurd. Is that how you think it went down?
It was an emergency two-pack from 7-11; my store doesn’t carry quantity like a CVS.
As everyone who read the OP would know.
I hope your emergency need has passed (chuckle) and you are well again.
Wow! I had no idea this is a big deal. Stupid waste of LE resources.
ISTM someone holding illicit drugs would just toss them into an RX bottle labelled something boring like arthritis meds. I keep a few Vicodin at work in case my herniated discs flare up; I have them in a Tylenol bottle because there’s an overnight custodian who’s a bit shady.
Hee hee, all systems go now! TMI: the latest and greatest kool thing about perimenopause is torrential PMS diarrhea. Yay!
A few weeks ago my 11 year old told me “the MTWTF thing grandma keeps her pills in is illegal because it’s not the original container”, I don’t know if she’s been watching Cops when I’m not in the room or where she picked that up.
Anyways, I’m quite sure I’m not unique in having a handful of ‘take as needed’ Rx pills. Some of which I keep at work, some of which I keep in my car, sometimes I even have ‘loose’ in my pocket (ie getting moved from home to work or a single Imitrex I have a feeling I’ll need later). Like you with a random assortment of pills, I toss them all in one container since I don’t want 5 bottles in my car and 5 bottles at work etc.
My solution: You should be able to go to your pharmacy and request a printout of all your meds. It would show the name, generic name, dosage, description of pill (color, shape, imprints). This printout would allow you to carry pills not in the original container. Whether you’d keep this with the pills or with you, I don’t know. I have a few other thoughts on how this might work, but I think the basic idea makes sense.
If people can’t carry Rx meds in unlabeled containers because they might not be their meds, this would fix that. Especially for all the people out there that are legitimately saying “sorry officer, I don’t want to carry a bottle of 90 percocets around with me all night, so I just keep 2 in my pocket in case I need them” and it won’t make it any easier for people that shouldn’t have had them in the first place.
Great idea! Let potential employers figure out how to open it while reading your resume.
…what about those week-of-pills boxes? Are the people who use them required to have a label on each little pill and big lozenge?
Please don’t tell me they’re illegal in the US!
When I fly on vacation, I combine my meds by putting a few tablets of each into one communal bottle. I don’t want to carry seven (God do I take seven prescriptions? ::counting:: Yes, I do.) bottles in my already-crowded carry-on. I hope no one ever gives me any crap about it.
EVERYTHING drug-related in the U.S. is illegal! We’re each limited to two colds/flus a year; Sudafed and related OTC drugs are now treated as a combo of crack, heroin, fentanyl, and flacka (at least in NJ) 
And it looks like we may also have to limit our diarrhea days, as loperamide will probably soon be illegal because two people died in 10 years using it to ease opiate withdrawal :rolleyes: