Shelf life of Olanzapine

[Eternal Sleep!]

How long is the storage life of Olanzapine? For how long can you use it as a antiemetic?

 

[LaVieEnRose]

There should be an expiration date if you got it prescribed.

 

[waningmoth]

Mine usually have fairly short dates of about a year

 

[Eternal Sleep!]

Mine usually have fairly short dates of about a year

A year?! Wow that is really short indeed.

 

[waningmoth]

A year?! Wow that is really short indeed.

I dont know if its just that the pharmacy i use gives me old stock but the expiry on my boxes is usually a year

 

[Relic]

Mine usually have fairly short dates of about a year

I have some lying around from five years ago, they still work. With the exception of antibiotics, most pills are fine for ten years after the expiration date. Tested by the military, and this is where the expired meds from pharmacies go to. Anything that loses its pharmacological properties and becomes toxic is destroyed, I haven't encountered many of these personally.