| my insulin, 10 months out of date.
I got some Novomix 30 from my Pharmacy (Dischem Fourways Johannesburg) a couple of months ago, after using two cartridges from the box i was about to put in my third cartridge when i noticed that the very very small sell by date on the outside of the box was 10 months out of date, this box was dispensed to me about 3 weeks prior.
Of course i panicked a bit and phoned up Novo immediatly who told me to stop taking it and get some new insulin.
I then phoned Dischem to complain and they said that they would phone me back, which they did, and they informed me that their entire stock was 10 months out of date and that they would courier new insulin immediately to my house, which they did.
Obviously the first thought to cross my mind would be to sue them, but i was told by my DR that it would take years and years and probably cost me a great deal of money, and anyway, insulin is perfectly safe to take even if its a year out of date.
I was not convinced about this and spent a few days researching it, unfortunatly i never saved the links so i cant point you to the links, but, i found out that insulin has been tested under Lab conditions blah blah and that insulin can be used that is between 20 and 50 years out of date. in fact it loses only about 5% of its strength after 20 years, it was tested because scientists wanted to establish how long insulin would last in the event of a major catastrophe such as asteroids or nuclear war.
I will see if i can find the links and i will post them later.  | 
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