question about pill bottle label

[mr. benfield]

there are two things that i need to know about on a pill bottle label.

it looks like this:

N: a date
R: a date three months later.

what is this? date of original filling, and date of refill?

any help is appreciated.

 

[WorldWarMe]

It'd help to know what pills they are.

 

[Violenza666]

On an old Xanax bottle of mine there is

Orig: which i think is the date it was prescribed
Dispense which is the date it was dispensed

Then it says on the bottom 3 refills before "whatever date"

My Roxi bottles have the Orig and dispense date but no refills because I have to see a dr once a month to get those. My Soma has a "date filled" "orig date" and a discard after date...

 

[happygoluckygal]

Without actually looking at the bottle, or knowing how the script was written, I would assume that the first date was either the date your script was filled, or the original date the script was written, and the R date is most likely the earliest the med will be allowed to be refilled.

 

[cybervisionx]

<offtopic>^Kroger pharmacys often won't follow minimum refill dates. Its to pharmacists digression</offtopic>

The "R" is a refill date.

 

[Violenza666]

Yea the examples I used are from Costco, CVS and Walgreens.

 

[mr. benfield]

its temazepam