Does Amoxicillin Go Bad With Age? (Page 2) (Top voted first)
UpdatedI bought 100 amoxicillin caps about 3 years ago and stored them in a dark place and I was curious if they would still be good to take.
Have you ever done drugs? Organic drugs? Ie, pot, mushrooms, opiates,.....And amoxicillin. Especially old drugs that a drug user may find under his/her bed, in hidey spots???? Well I am not proud to say it but I have!! And I am not alone.
All of these organic compounds degrade with age, and poor storage.. I would take a very educated guess and say that AMOX.. will degrade faster than most considering its organic and highly delicate content matter. Imagine eating 3 yr old shiitake mushrooms, they will not taste anything like freshies but they are still shiitakes!
Dr Nate says, these pills are still SAFE, and ok to ingest, but I would increase the dosage by at least 1/3 per ingestion! And yes, run a full course to kill off any resistant bugs in your body!!!
I know, nobody wants to take advise from a recovering addict, but what I say is fact! And I aint talkin smack!!!
But as always, tread at your own risk, Im just offering MY way of seeing this question answered properly, honestly, and rationally.
Live strong, choose wisely, and yes, they are all right about 1 thing, except for that life threatening, out of the blue emergency, you should absolutely just go the friggn doc and get the appropriate meds! Azithromycin or Z-pack is the best course for most peeps, and for most types of infections.
P.s. I am also a vry vry experienced chemist and I know these things..
Unless your risking greater bodily harm, always use an md you trust and admire and dont self medicate!!
Thats addict behavior!!
LATER ALL!
And p.s. AMOXICILLIN ALWAYS smells like sulfur. Especially when its fresh! DUH!
I have a very good reason for having these, think I'mma go with Nate and the 11 year old. Guess that's my best judgement.
Your post was absolutely uncalled for... Marks question was valid and interesting. When a natural disaster strikes and you develop an infection and your only hope is some old amoxicillin.... then what will you do. Of course he should go see a doctor... but for the sake of argument.. Does it go bad? Obviously , you dont know...
KRISTEN: for one, its amoxicillin... a lot of people have it 'sitting around' its not oxycontin or something... its just a simple antibiotic. The user asked a questioned they didn't ask for you to argue with them. If that's all you have to say then no one wants to hear it.
Oh we get it mr/ms high and mighty. Sometimes you just have left over. Like my dentist prescribed it, then I ended up having the tooth pulled. and today I have an earache and the doctors office in the box just closed. im taking the amoxicillin so I get a head start on the dosage they will prescribe for me tomorrow!
So will you please stop preaching about the finishing of the medications.
Amoxicillin is a fungus. If anything it gets better with age. Don't listen to these shills. I've taken penicillin from 07 in 14 - worked like a charm. They want u to finish it, want u to spend more money, they lecture u about resistant bacteria, but dead up, if u have an infection, no money, & old amoxicillin, TAKE IT. Not going to do s*** but clear up ur infection. I've done it more times than I can count.
Bravo Bravo... Excellent answer.. and sounds like you know what your talking about but we can never know for sure... Thanks for answering though!!!
I have a stockpile of various drugs stored properly. Every 5 years we try to replenish but still keep the older as it's better than nothing. If anything does happen, civil disturbance, etc. you won't be able to get it!
Better safe than sorry!
has anyone stopped to consider that he might have taken the whole bottle he was prescribed, but that the doctor put an extra refill on it just in case?
Everytime I get an antibiotic scrip I tell the doctor to put an extra refill on it.
I have taken 5 year old Amoxicillin and had no serious side effects. I was keeping it just in case there was a natural disaster or something. When I took it I got itchy at first. Then my dick fell off. I'm already to old to use the dick so that was no big deal. The good news is that after taking them I found the vitamin gelcaps I was really looking for in the same drawer. I took the amoxy's by mistake because they looked similar to the Vitamin gels. Like I said though, no serious side effects
amoxicillin is for "bacterial" infections only..not viral, which is what a COLD is....do not take amoxicillin for a COLD!!
Everyone has the right to diagnose and treat themselves, as well as educate themselves about their bodies and various natural and synthetic medicines. Please take your disempowering advice somewhere else.
I just took some that expire in 2005 and they worked a treat!
Not necessarily, I just read a medical report that it can be effective from 12 months to 7 years, so your comment isn't accurate
Why does it matter what someone has around for 3 yrs !! Just answer the ?
NOBODY ANSWER!!! let's all just attack the asker, tell them don't do that, it's bad. i can't or won't tell you why, but that's bad. never mind the US Army study that found these types of drugs safe and effective 15 years after the expiry date. it's bad to take anything after the expiry date, so don't do it, its bad, mmkay? Let's all freak out about the asker not taking their whole previous rx, even though the 100 dose, unopened bottle is obviously not a leftover! Lets not say anything about this being enough for 5 courses of treatment, or that nobody should take amox for more than 10-14 days at once, the asker would never need to know anything like that, because after all, that bottle of theirs is expired, and taking them for any reason would be bad.
OR maybe the shelf life is 100 years and the prescription drug companies are brilliant and tell us ---I mean scare us into believing they do expire! Case in point: in '95 my husband had surgery on a broken ankle. He accumulated a ton (ish) of pain killers which he didn't take. I hurt my shoulder skiing, nothing broken or torn---no script from Dr. I dug them out of the bin where I keep other OTC items. I took a percocet (2012) and IT WORKED LIKE MAGIC. So, why should we believe that other drugs expire in such a short period of time? No sucka here.
i have a friend who is an MD 10yrs. he said the pharma companies do that to move the drugs. He asked me, why do i think that the medical orgs. that go to assist poor countries ask for people to volunteer leftover/unused meds..even if expired...some may lose potency, but are still effective for years past the exp.date
Can anyone be more pretentious than you? What does it matter to you if someone has amoxicillin lying around in their house; it's not a narcotic. You will never be able to save the world, sweetie, quit trying.
Everyone is freaking out about people having the pills left over. I have amoxicillin in my cabinet left over because I have to take it before a dentist appointment. The dr prescribed more than I needed for one visit and I haven't been back until now and they are expired. It doesn't have to be a big deal.
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