ok, having worked in a pharmacy before....i will give everyone one piece of advice. the pharmacist may not like it....but i see no reason why it cant be done. when a pharmacist fills your prescription......the original bottle that the medication comes out of, has an expiration date on it.....it could be this year, could be 2 years from now......could be 3 years from now before they expire........BUT.......on your prescription bottle....it has to discard ONE YEAR after the date that it was filled.........meaning LOTS of us have thrown away medication that was still effective and no where near running out of date.....but we just dont know WHEN they will run out. so, you really should ask/insist to the pharmacist to write on the rx bag or something, the date in which your pills truly run out of date. since i became aware of this.....i, personally, keep my prescriptions for at least 1 year longer than the discarded date. sometimes 2 years.....but then i throw them out.....(i just cant seem to remember to have the pharmacist tell me the true expiration date!!!)