Please Read What happened to me so it don't happen to you

Hey Everybody!

I haven't been on the boards lately because of an issue that came up at home. For the past Year I have been on many heavy duty pain meds. Especially the past 5 months while dealing with those fractured bones in my back. Many of you know I got addicted to the Oxycodone and had to go to rehab to get off of them. There were many many times over the past year that I would go to take a pill and think...man, have I taken that many....sure don't remember taking all them..... I thought I was getting chemo brain... or just plain going nuts. There were even several times I would just go to the drug store and get my Oxy's filled, come home and put them on the counter..... and then I could not find them..the whole bottle..GONE! I am serious.... I really thought..WTF????? Is this chemo brain this messed up...am I friggin going crazy....Well,........ NO. I finally found the answers to all those questions 2 weeks ago. My 23 year old son has been stealing and taking my drugs! I had no idea. For over a year he had been taking them. I found out because when I got back from rehab I noticed my son was acting very wierd.... stomach cramps....headaches...shaking... can't get out of bed...He was going thru withdrawals.... I knew the symptoms because I just went thru it. So all this time of him stealing my drugs....he got addicted too. ALL drugs were cleaned out of my house and thrown away after I entered rehab so my son was then left with nothing...so he started going thru withdrawals. I confronted him... a BIG denial arguement started and finally he admitted taking my drugs. He tried to tell me he was selling them...NOT taking them.... I told him he was going thru withdrawals and needed to get help but no .... I was the frigging crazy one he said and stormed out. He went home that evening, got in a fight with his girlfriend and left there telling her "You can read about me in the morning paper" He tried to kill himself that night. He got on The highway in his truck and was trying to hit anything in sight including oncoming traffic. Luckily, his girlfriend was following behind him because she was scared he was going to do that. He was going off the shoulder...in the dirt...barely missing concrete walls when he swerved back into traffic....he would get in the other lane and cars had to go off the road to keep from hitting him.... he was still just inches from hitting them... several people called the police and 4 cop cars pulled him over. They called an ambulance and he was taken to the hospital. He had to go thru a rehab program just like me and is now seeing a shrink. I wanted to tell you all this story because a lot of you have a medicine cabinet that looks just like mine. Many of us take pain meds...or anxiety/depression pills...all of these are attractive to young adults.....OUR KIDS. I was a clueless parent and was blaming it on chemo brain. Please.... if you have teens ot young adults that have access to your drugs...... Keep your eye out for this. This was a horrible experience and quite an eye opener. It was something I did not even think about.....I didn't think MY kid would take drugs...muchless steal mine. Live and learn...... you all take care.

Jennie