Levothyroxine ingredients

[tweed]

Hi everyone does anyone know of any brand of levothyroxine without maize starch? Any help on this would be brilliant thankyou!

[RedApple Administrator]

Have you checked the medications page on the main website? All UK levothyroxines with ingredients are listed. I suspect the liquid will be free of maize.

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/treatm...

[cc120]

Hi tweed, please go to following thread for some info:

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[Glynisrose]

The only stuff I know of is the liquid variety, its a pain as it only has a 3 week shelf life and you soon feel like you are constantly either at the doctors or in the chemists!! There are two versions, one with lactose and one without....

[helvella Administrator in reply to Glynisrose]

Which one has lactose? I thought all the standard UK licensed liquid products were lactose-free. For these products, they have much longer shelf-life than three weeks. Indeed, liquid Eltroxin has an eight-week life after opening.

Rod

[Glynisrose]

I don't know, I was on liquid thyroxine for a couple of years and at first it had sugar in it, (you could tell by the sugar crystals caked around the top) I complained and then I got the everything - less liquid stuff.

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Glynisrose]

That was then, this is now. Things change. Please check your facts before posting so that you don't post out of date information, which is not helpful to our members.

[Glynisrose]

I can only go by my own experience.