Do Medications Really Expire

April 7, 2011 - "Do Medications Really Expire?" By Richard Altschuler. Does the expiration date on a bottle of a medication mean anything? If a bottle of Tylenol, for example, says something like "Do not use after June 1998," and it is August 2002, should you take the Tylenol? Should you discard it? Can you get hurt if you take it? Will it simply have lost its potency and do you no good? Click here