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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:38:44 JST nixCraft 🐧

   I have taken expired insulin by accident for several days. It is a miracle that I am not seriously sick or dead. 😵 How is this even possible? #personal #medicine

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:54:04 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • ixeft

     @ixeft bookmarked. I will read it later. Thanks 🙏

   • ixeft (ixeft@framapiaf.org)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:54:05 JST ixeft

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     @nixCraft https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040264/

   • ixeft (ixeft@framapiaf.org)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:54:06 JST ixeft

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     @nixCraft a lot of medecines are still ok after expiration date, active substance just degrade slowly. If degradation byproduct are not toxic, you can just expect a less efficient product. Might be the case for insulin.

   • Chip35 (chip35@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 14:02:54 JST Chip35

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     @nixCraft Expired insulin is not dangerous immediately. Hell, it's probably good for another two weeks if refrigerated.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 15:27:32 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Chip35

     @Chip35 it was refrigerated. Even my doctor told me not to worry about it and go about my business. I guess it is not that uncommon incident.

   • JKN (jkn@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 15:28:19 JST JKN

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     @nixCraft Depends by how long. Things don't magically turn bad at the stroke of midnight, except in fairy-tales.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 15:28:19 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • JKN

     @jkn it was by the few weeks. I took it for like 3 days past expiration date

   • bargoderea (bargoderea@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 21:06:58 JST bargoderea

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     @nixCraft you really don't know why? it is very rare to find a medicine that does harm after the expiry date, most of them either stop working at all or is a lie, the 2nd option is not something to rely on 100%

   • Owen Tyme (owentyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 19:25:05 JST Owen Tyme

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     @nixCraft I'm reminded of something I read about happening in a pharmacy that had been running for quite a few years.

     They found a box of a mixture of various medicines that hadn't been touched for forty years. They were about to throw them out, when someone bright who knew about such things grabbed them and sent them off to test their potency (for science!).

     Almost everything was still good.

     Expiration dates are testing-based and they just don't test a drug for forty years before release.