Expired medication

[walksonthebeach]

Posting here as more traffic. I'm badly constipated at the moment & I have a full box of Movicol that has expired in September? It would be a shame to let it go to waste. Does anyone know if it would be ok to take or should I get a new prescription?

Crack on. If it gives you diarrhea you know it’s gone off.

Personally, I'd turn a blind eye and use it but technically you should probably get a new prescription. Its not as if its 5 years out of date its just a couple of months if that, I doubt its turned into poison just yet.

it probably just won't be as effective

As long as its September 2020 it'll be fine

@makingmammaries

Crack on. If it gives you diarrhea you know it’s gone off.

Fingers crossed 🤞 I think I'll chance it 😁

It would be a shame to let it go to waste
But that’s the result you’re after, isn’t it?

It will be fine, and in the grand scheme of things not even really out of date.
During the first lockdown I had an outbreak of eczema. I used an unopened tube of prescribed steroid cream which cleared it up. It went out of date in 2016.

I'd check with a pharmacy, some medicines lose their effectiveness quickly, I used my blue inhaler for an asthma attack and it didn't work, it was 2 weeks out of date. Luckily I had a new one and that worked.

Movicol is fine as it’s just powder. I use the out of date version all the time as the pharmacy I use never have it in stock.