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Does Percocet (Oxycodone) ever expire or go bad?


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Post On: 2009-07-30 09:31:59

 Does Percocet (Oxycodone) ever expire or go bad?
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I just came back from dental surgery and was wondering if this prescription ever expires? Can I shelf it for awhile? Thank you
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 Post On: 2009-07-30 09:40:07
User: Hannah
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Should say on the packet along with the batch number. Most meds will keep for a considerable time but all hit ingest by dates, You probably shouldn't "save it for a rainy day". If you ever need it again, you should intend it on prescription
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 Post On: 2009-07-30 09:43:34
User: drbrian247
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Yes, it should have an ending fellow on the bottle. Usually it is set for about a year on painkiller pain meds. The deal is that after the ending fellow they don't magically modify into a poisoness change of the opiate. They simply lose its level of effectiveness. I did a assignment activate in Mexico one year as the dentist on the assignment trip, and just exclusive the US abut was a depot that pharmaceutical companies would board meds to just before they were going to expire. They did so to use it as a tax indite off. My point is that I still utilised the meds for the patients I saw. I asked about the ending fellow and was informed that they were just less effective. I was advised that keeping them cool and away from light was the best way to ready them at 100% after the ending date. Hope this helped.
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 Post On: 2010-01-08 00:55:10
User: Cathy
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I just found some percocet 5 mg that were my mother's when she had cancer. She died in 1989 and the bottle was just filled 3 days before she died. Now are they still good?
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