Do you collect your pill bottles and stuff?

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14 Jun 2009, 12:21 pm

I have about 50 of mine, from the last almost 2 years, from prescriptions of Seroquel, Celexa, Haldol, Prozac, Zyprexa, Geodon, Abilify, Loxapine and Ativan. I also have blister packs from my Risperdal M-Tabs, even the empty ones, and the instruction paper that came in the box with them, and the box they came in. I also used to collect instruction papers for all my psych meds too, but when some got accidentally thrown out or something I gave up. I also had a booklet describing depression, its symptoms, its treatments inclusing meds, the types of antidepressants, a list of particular antidepressants, the side effects of the different types of antidepressants, hoe else to manage depression and a daily diary thing at the back where you put down on a scale of 1 to 5 how intensely you feel or act this way or that, and see how you're progressing with your meds. But I lost it. :( I also have some labeled plastic that some of my Ativan came in, but I lost the labeled plastic bags that some of my loxapine came in.



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14 Jun 2009, 12:52 pm

I d thjat until it make me feel uncomfortable ad my parens throw it out I tend to hoard a lot like pltes and that like when I've eaten but soda bottles and pill bottles I kep I don't know why I value it as a trophy



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14 Jun 2009, 1:40 pm

I have a lot of pill bottles, but I keep things in them.

I do have old hospital bracelets and stuff like that, though :oops:


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14 Jun 2009, 11:00 pm

I don't get my pills in bottles, just those blister packs. I don't keep my boxes. If I did I'd have 5-6 empty birth control boxes (as well as a couple of plan b ones too) as well as a whole stack of pain killer boxes.


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14 Jun 2009, 11:31 pm

I have one of my old Adderall bottles...as proof that I was actually prescribed Adderall at one time..because I want to get back on it someday.



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14 Jun 2009, 11:38 pm

I chucked out a whole 4 months supply of Celexa when I discontinued in 07. I didnt keep any of it. I still have the pillcutter though..



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15 Jun 2009, 12:14 am

I don't have any pill bottles, other than some antibiotics and pain killers prescribed by a dentist.

And of course the antibiotics messed up my GI tract permanently and now I have to live with it.

From now on I'm not taking pharmaceuticals unless I'm dying.



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15 Jun 2009, 11:32 am

zen_mistress wrote:
I chucked out a whole 4 months supply of Celexa when I discontinued in 07. I didnt keep any of it. I still have the pillcutter though..
Wow! You should have sent them to me! I need Celexa!


I still have some Haldol, Prozac, Geodon, Loxapine, Risperdal, Abilify, Zyprexa and Cogentin. My dad says I own a pharmacy now. But that's nothing to the tons of psychoactive drugs my boyfriend owns. He literally owns a pharmacy. Well, no, but he does have a lot of psych drugs.



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15 Jun 2009, 3:17 pm

Wow, you sound REALLY messed up. I never kept my old pills, because they go bad after a year. I have been on Zoloft, Geodon, Wellbutrin, Orap (for tourettes), Adderall, and a number of others in addition to what I'm on now-Strattera, Luvox, Neurontin, Risperdal, Haldol, and Restoril and Rozerem which are sleeping pills because I'm so wired. If you really take all that stuff, you must have real problems. Most of those are antipsychotics. I know that aspies can go psychotic in their teens and twenties-I did, certainly. But usually it takes only a couple drugs to get it under control, usually Risperdal and something else.



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15 Jun 2009, 3:22 pm

pensieve wrote:
I don't get my pills in bottles, just those blister packs. I don't keep my boxes. If I did I'd have 5-6 empty birth control boxes (as well as a couple of plan b ones too) as well as a whole stack of pain killer boxes.


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15 Jun 2009, 3:29 pm

Well I did keep empty steroidal nasal sprays, I was planning on using them as cases for electret microphones but I never got around to doing that. I threw the cases out in a clear out of junk and then that make and model of nasal spray was discontinued.


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15 Jun 2009, 4:09 pm

Ana54 wrote:
zen_mistress wrote:
I chucked out a whole 4 months supply of Celexa when I discontinued in 07. I didnt keep any of it. I still have the pillcutter though..
Wow! You should have sent them to me! I need Celexa!


I still have some Haldol, Prozac, Geodon, Loxapine, Risperdal, Abilify, Zyprexa and Cogentin. My dad says I own a pharmacy now. But that's nothing to the tons of psychoactive drugs my boyfriend owns. He literally owns a pharmacy. Well, no, but he does have a lot of psych drugs.


Lol! Had I known you back then I would have. I had only just joined WP then though.



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15 Jun 2009, 9:55 pm

Im beginning to hold onto my Adderall XR bottles. I'm using them to keep change. Maybe I should make them into fireworks tho... :twisted:


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17 Jun 2009, 4:30 am

Pezar: LOL, I wasn't on all those at the same time! I was on one antipsychotic at a time, with one antidepressant at a time. Except when I was on Risperdal, Celexa and Abilify at once.


Some of my pills are expired, but I keep them as souvenirs. Some of them aren't expired.


Zen mistress: cool!



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17 Jun 2009, 4:43 am

I don't but when my father died he had a trunk full of pill bottles.

He also had hundreds of empty egg cartons and ice cream containers.

Heaven knows what he thought they would be good for.