So your medicine cabinet is overflowing with empty bottles and out of date prescription medication. Sounds like its time for a medicine cabinet make over. Using out of date medication can be detrimental to your health and not filling your prescriptions on time can end up costing you twice as much money. So instead of risking your health and money, here are 5 quick tips to get your medicine cabinet back into shape while saving you money.

1.Throw Out Your Old Prescription

The first step to revamping your medicine cabinet is to get rid of your old out of date prescriptions. It's best to get rid of any medications that are out of date so that you don't accidentally use them.

2.Find out the medications you need

Before you visit your doctor's office make a list of the new prescriptions you need as well as the old ones that you need to get renewed. Don't forget to right down any herbal supplements or dietary aids. Not only can you use this list to ask for the new prescriptions, you can also use it to comparison shop later.

3.Schedule an appointment with your primary care physician

Schedule a doctor's appointment with your family doctor. Get a check up and ask for the prescription drugs you need as well as the medications you have that will expire. Ask for a prescription supply that is most common for the drug your are ordering. Most of the time this is a 90 or 100 day supply. Make sure to copy all of the original prescriptions for your personal records. This preventative checkup could help catch any serious problems before they develop and help save you more money than you can imagine.

4.Shop for the cheapest price

This can be done several ways. You can physically go to local pharmacies around your area which is very time consuming and ultimately doesn't save you all that much money, or you can shop for you prescriptions online. Shopping online is the easiest and most economical way to shop for your prescriptions.

5.Find a cheap, reliable pharmacy

A good way to find a reliable pharmacy to order from is to go through a pharmacy advocacy group such as ePharmacies.com. This website lets you type in the prescription drug that you are looking for, then gives you a list of all the cheapest pharmacies that offer that specific drug at the lowest possible price. ePharmacies.com also has a pharmacy rating system that allows you to read feedback that other users have left; this helps to weed-out rogue, fly-by-night pharmacies.

If you follow these quick easy tips to revamping you medicine cabinet it will not only save your time and money, it will also improve your health! Visit this Consumer Advocacy website for more information on ordering from online pharmacies.