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Excess B12 Injections

5 years ago•6 Replies

Hello,

A bit of background- I was diagnosed a B12 deficiency when was traveling India last year. Before I came home to the UK, I bought some B12 shots over the counter at the pharmacy, as I'd heard how difficult it can be to get your GP to properly treat B12 in the UK sometimes. Long story short, I got lucky and managed to (after a short battle) get a loading dose and I'm now on regular injections every 3 months which seems to be doing the job for me. Soooo, I have 15 Mecobalamin 500mcg injections and 15 seperately packaged sterilized needles. The B12 is due to expire next month.

I know how much people struggle here to get the treatment they need, and I'm not sure if this is allowed, but if it is I'd be happy to post these out to anyone who might need them for free. I'd hate to see them go to waste and I have no use for them. If they could be of any help to anyone, shoot me a private message

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fbirder5 years ago

Unfortunately it's illegal to sell (or give) prescription drugs to somebody else. I would recommend anybody who can think of a safe way to dispose of them sends you a PM.

graciefac• in reply tofbirder5 years ago

Ah ok, fair enough. Although these were not prescription drugs when I bought them, I got them in India where they are perfectly legal to buy over the counter. I'm not sure if that makes a difference

eDebbs5 years ago

I’m in USA, I BBC went to college to be a Pharmacist , and I’m also a triple Anemia ( iron deficient -B-12 & Pernicious anemia with both Intrinsic factors. Anyhow those expiration dates are a guideline; today’s medications are good for many many months even years longer than their actual “expectation dates” If you gonna use it up in the next 6-18 months, pretty sure using it will be fine; a diminished amount of the mcg’s is the worse thing that happens as this passes it’s expiration date-I’m not saying comeback in 12years but 6-18 months past Expiration date should be just fine -I take 1000 by injection every month but have no problem getting my prescriptions here in USA

eDebbs• in reply toeDebbs5 years ago

Sorry I should have proof read my post before sending it-I get these capital letter abbreviations that SPELLCHECK throws into everything I write since an update a few month ago-ignore letters like BBC, in opening sentence

graciefac• in reply toeDebbs5 years ago

That really good to know, thank you!