I would try the expired meds though. They usually build a hell of a safety net into the dates and usually just get less potent so the worst that happens is nothing.
I was thinking this too.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
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Nora Deirdre - Dec 12, 2005 12:54:49 pm PST #9390 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Stephanie - Dec 12, 2005 12:56:10 pm PST #9391 of 10003
Trust my rage
Me, too.
Steph L. - Dec 12, 2005 1:10:45 pm PST #9392 of 10003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
There's no reason he can't take the expired percoset. Worst-case scenario, the drug will have lost its effectiveness, but it won't have any negative effect on him.
Jen - Dec 12, 2005 1:20:01 pm PST #9393 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
What Cass and Teppy and Nora and Stephanie said. Which is what I was about to say. Those expiration dates are based on effectiveness, not some danger of them having "gone bad" the way food goes bad.
The FDA recently released a statement saying that people should feel free to take their drugs for a year past the expiration date without worry. So bottoms up!
Jen - Dec 12, 2005 1:20:06 pm PST #9394 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Sorry. That didn't need to be said twice.
Cass - Dec 12, 2005 1:20:26 pm PST #9395 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I like when Tep (and Jen. Hi Jen!) comes in with the wise med fu. Because mine is mostly guesstimation and vague theories.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 12, 2005 1:20:49 pm PST #9396 of 10003
What is even happening?
I'll tell him that. Thanks.
Hey Nora, are you here. I have to ask you a question about your neighbor who had the baby.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 12, 2005 1:21:28 pm PST #9397 of 10003
What is even happening?
Thanks, Jen. It will help him to hear it twice. I'll tell him both a nurse and a pharmaceutical journal editor say it's okay.
Jen - Dec 12, 2005 1:21:31 pm PST #9398 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Hi Cass! And everyone!
Cindy, I'm not a nurse just yet. I'll be in May, but for now I'm still a student. I don't want to misrepresent myself.
WindSparrow - Dec 12, 2005 1:28:16 pm PST #9399 of 10003
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
The temperatures meds are exposed to play a bigger role than the dates on the label. I once had a reaction to a narcotic cough syrup that still had a month to go before the expiration date, yet it had been kept in a kitchen cupboard in a trailer in Arizona where I did not have real A/C. Temps in summer frequently reached 100 or more in there. So I'd say, if the stuff is stored in a place with reasonable climate-control, it's likely to be just fine. Consider this: pharmacy labels give an expiration date of one year, standard. There is no allowance for however long the med. may have been sitting around waiting for you to bring in your prescription.