Woman Says Her Boyfriend Kept Taking Her Vyvanse — Then She Realized She Had Been Second-Guessing Herself for Months
A 24-year-old woman says she had been quietly doubting herself for months as her Vyvanse kept coming up short.
At first, she thought maybe she had miscounted. Maybe the pharmacy made a mistake. Maybe she was the one messing up the numbers somehow. She even argued with the pharmacy because the missing pills made so little sense.
Then she set a trap.
She explained in a Reddit post that she lives with her 27-year-old boyfriend and that they had been together for two years. Over the previous several months, she noticed a few times that she was short on her medication.
Vyvanse is a controlled substance, and for people who need it, running short is not a small inconvenience. It can affect work, focus, daily functioning, and the ability to get through normal responsibilities. It is also not the kind of prescription a doctor or pharmacy will casually refill early because someone says pills are missing.
That is why the missing medication became such a big deal.
She asked her boyfriend directly if he had taken any.
He denied it.
Not once. Repeatedly.
Sometimes, he even got upset that she asked. That left her second-guessing herself even more. If he sounded offended, maybe she really was accusing him unfairly. Maybe she was being careless. Maybe she had made a mistake and was turning it into a relationship problem.
But her gut did not let it go.
This month, she decided to test it. She put five extra pills in a small bottle she kept at his apartment. A short time later, three of the five pills were gone.
This time, she had proof.
She confronted him again and told him she knew exactly how many pills had been in the bottle.
He denied it again at first.
Then, finally, he admitted he had taken them.
But even that confession came with limits. He claimed those were the only pills he had ever taken. The problem was that this explanation did not match what she had been experiencing. She had already been missing medication before, which was the whole reason she set the trap in the first place.
In the comments, she added more context. She sometimes stays at her parents’ house, which is where she first noticed medication going missing. Her boyfriend told her he thought the pills were “extra” and said he did not think taking them would leave her short.
He apologized, said he would never do it again, and agreed he needed therapy. He also said he might need to look into getting his own prescription.
But the woman still could not shake the hurt.
He had not only taken a controlled substance without permission. He had lied about it over and over while she questioned herself, argued with the pharmacy, and wondered why her medication count was off.
That is the part that seemed to break something in her.
She knew he had struggled with Adderall in college, though she said she had not realized how seriously to take that history. She also knew he had recently started a new job and that his anxiety had been bad. He told her he had taken the pills because he was having a tough week at work.
But that explanation did not make her feel safer.
If anything, it made the situation more concerning. If he needed stimulant medication, he could talk to a doctor. If a doctor had once wanted to prescribe something, he could follow up. If cost or insurance was the problem, he could discuss options. What he could not do was take hers, lie about it, and let her deal with the consequences.
She also noted that his claim about only taking three pills did not make sense because she was still about a week short.
That meant she suspected he had taken more than he admitted.
The comments pushed her hard toward ending the relationship. One commenter shared a long story about dealing with the same situation with an ex who stole Adderall, denied it, made her feel crazy, and eventually escalated to taking more while she grew increasingly desperate to protect her medication.
That story hit the poster. She replied that reading everyone’s thoughts made her think the best thing would be to end it, though she was struggling to find the backbone because she had never broken up with someone she loved so seriously.
Eventually, she updated that they broke up over the phone.
His reaction did not make her regret it. She said he did not seem to care very much and told her she was treating him badly because she kept bringing it up after he had already apologized. He said he just wanted peace and that all she wanted to do was argue.
That response confirmed what many commenters had warned her about.
He wanted the conversation to end because he had apologized. She wanted to understand how someone she trusted could steal medication she needed, lie to her face, and still claim she was the problem for not moving on fast enough.
By then, the medication theft was no longer the only issue.
It was the lying. The denial. The gaslighting. The minimization. The fact that he only admitted what she could prove and still acted like her continued hurt was unfair to him.
She had been protecting her prescription from someone who was supposed to protect her.
That was enough.
Commenters overwhelmingly told her she was not overreacting. Many said taking someone else’s Vyvanse without permission is theft and illegal, especially because it is a controlled substance.
A lot of people said the bigger problem was the lying. He denied it repeatedly, got upset when she asked, and only admitted to the pills she could prove were missing.
Several commenters warned that he had likely taken more than he admitted. They pointed out that she had noticed missing pills for months, and the three-pill confession did not explain why she was still short.
Others suggested practical steps like getting a medication lockbox, keeping pills with her, and staying with family while figuring out next steps. But many also said a lockbox does not fix the deeper issue of living with someone who steals your medication.
The strongest advice was simple: she could not rebuild trust with someone who stole from her, lied about it, and then blamed her for staying upset.
