That being said, I usually toss prescription medicines once I’m done anyway; I don’t really see the point in holding on to them, since my understanding is that they don’t have a long shelf life and I’d hate for my two-year-old to get into them. But, I voted with The Donkey on the basic principle: ignoring the 800 million outside factors, sharing your wife’s prescription is okay.

Or you could just try a glass of warm milk with some honey.

Or a nice warm bath before drinking the glass of milk.

Or try my husband’s favourite trick to fall alseep – ask for your wife’s honest opinion about a controversial topic and after she’s been talking for about 2 minutes you’ll be in la-la land before you know it!

See – you can do it without drugs!

Perscription drugs require a perscription *because* they may have side effects that are not good for some people or are dangerous when used with other drugs.

However, if your doctor has perscribed the same drug in the past, and therefore you know it won’t cause any problems, then it’s probably OK.

As for penicillin, you shouldn’t have any “leftover” because the patient is supposed to take the full regiment!

This has happend TWICE. Once when I was coughing like crazy he took my prescription cough medicine because it had codine and he wanted to sleep….because I was keeping him awake by coughing. The second time was when I had just had a c-section and he took my pain killers because his back hurt. If I believed in divorce, we would have gotten one the night.

Bottom line, if I am FINISHED with the medicine, he can have it……but he needs to keep his grubby little hands off of it until then!

Otherwise, if you just have head & chest congestion… you might need a decongestant.

Either way you don’t need the pain killer.