Old Medicines- When to stop using

[MRG]

10 year old Viagra! don't get much action do you the Dr offered me a years prescription...those two pills were pretty cheap.

No I actually switched to cialis as I had headaches from 50mg V. Turns out cutting them into 25mg works well with no headache.

 

[scrabbler1]

Back in 2015, I was proscribed a drug which I took briefly, before I used up all the capsules (per doctor's orders). In late 2017, I was put back on the drug and I asked the pharmacist if I could finish up the existing supply. In my online research, the drug was good for 3 or 4 years but the pharmacist told me it had a 1-year window, so I didn't take the existing supply.


A few months later, my dad was recovering from hip replacement surgery and didn't get a chance to see his other doctors to get one of his other meds (unrelated to his hip surgery) renewed. The med in question he was about to run out of happened to be the same one I had those extra pills for. I told him what I learned about the conflicting expiration dates but he still asked me to bring my old supply to him to hold him over until he could see his doctor again. I did, and everything worked out fine.

 

[omni550]

When they started putting expiration dates on bottled water, I knew something was going awry.

Anecdote follows.

A while ago, I had stocked up on bottled water for something, and had a case sitting around for a while. On my way to a class one day, I grabbed a bottle to take with me. Later that morning, I took a sip. As I was setting the bottle back down on the table, I spotted "something" floating at the bottom inside the bottle. It was a dark gray-ish filmy thing. I then noticed the bottle was way past the expiration date. Needless to say, I didn't finish the bottle. I went home and looked at the remaining bottles...several had the same filmy thing inside so I chucked the entire lot.

I emailed the bottling company. They said this was common for 'expired' water and sent me some coupons.

These days, I don't keep an inventory of bottled water for any extended length of time.

omni

 

[Winemaker]

Anecdote follows.

A while ago, I had stocked up on bottled water for something, and had a case sitting around for a while. On my way to a class one day, I grabbed a bottle to take with me. Later that morning, I took a sip. As I was setting the bottle back down on the table, I spotted "something" floating at the bottom inside the bottle. It was a dark gray-ish filmy thing. I then noticed the bottle was way past the expiration date. Needless to say, I didn't finish the bottle. I went home and looked at the remaining bottles...several had the same filmy thing inside so I chucked the entire lot.

I emailed the bottling company. They said this was common for 'expired' water and sent me some coupons.

These days, I don't keep an inventory of bottled water for any extended length of time.

omni

I have oodles of old bottled grape juice that are years old. I pour them into a pitcher/flagon/decanter and allow the sediment/ floaties to sink or swim. Most of these are actually scrumptious, and some may be past their prime.