Has anyone else felt bad from taking teva?, I take 200mcg a day and after three weeks on Teva I have requested a new prescription and shopped around chemist's for a brand I have taken before.
Symptoms included a stonking headache within a couple of hours of taking the tablets
Cold, cold cold! (suffer from raynauds that seemed to be worse during these weeks)
Tired, lethargic
Weight gain
Puffy face
My joints feel weak like I would snap my wrist by gripping too tight
I am only in my 30's and have been on thyroxine for around 10 years after radio-Iodene treatment for graves disease. Pretty good at managing my own dose but defo something wrong with Teva tablets
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JENSANDS, When you requested a new prescription, did your GP offer a thyroid blood test to check your levels?
It may be that the potency of the Teva tablets is different for some individuals. Before changing back to your preferred brand of tablets, a blood test could help to shed light on the situation.
I am booked in next week for my regular test but I felt so bad that I could no longer take them, within a couple of weeks taking my regular brand I felt much better, my mood swings were horrific so I could't put my family through it any longer
I completely understand you not taking them any more. Shame you couldn't get the blood test done sooner though, as by next week any effect of the Teva tablets on blood levels will have been masked by the change back to old brand.
Instead of only issuing a new script, your GP really should have also tested your levels to see what was happening whilst on Teva. The reality of course is that NHS surgeries are not set up for immediate testing in such circumstances.
If you haven't already done so, please submit a Yellow Card for the Teva brand. The more people do this, the more chance there is of getting the problem sorted. yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk
Was just about to make the same. Omment as RedApple. Different brands can change considerably that is why I always say to stick to the same brand. The tablets are made withine 5% of the dose, at o e time it was as wide as 10%, so if you are taking one produced at the top end and drop to one at the bottom then that is a considerable change and would in a lot of us be noticeable. I also found that when taking MP then 1x 100 was not the same as 4x 25!
Several members have complained of feeling unwell after being switched to Teva. Please report your symptoms via yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/ It is a pity that Teva doesn't seem to be well tolerated as it is the only lactose-free make in the UK.
It's difficult to know the reality of this though. We tend to see mostly the people who have problems. There could be many thousands 'out there' who are doing just fine on Teva.
I understand people may tolerate the tablet much better than I did, but I am interested in the symptoms people experienced whilst taking it, the last time I felt so ill was way back when I was increasing the dose steadily after treatment
Endocrine.org may be based in America, but it appears to be an international society with conferences all around the world including the UK.
This article would probably look official enough when shown to a GP to get your point across about the, not unreasonable, request to remain on an unchanging brand of Levo.
I’m aware this post is a few years old but I’ve been trying, for a long time, to convince my gp to request the same brand of levothyroxine for me but he says one brand of levo is the same as another and my symptoms aren’t to do with medication. This article is very interesting and at last I have something to show him. Thank you very much for posting.
Physicians should: 1) alert patients that preparations may be switched at the pharmacy; 2) encourage patients to ask to remain on the same preparation at every pharmacy refill; and 3) make sure patients understand the need to have their TSH retested and the potential for dosing readjusted every time their LT4 preparation is switched (18).
Like you felt really lethargic, also run down, tight chest/palpitations and agitated. Cut my dosage down, alternating 100mcg one day and back up to 125 mcg the next for a fortnight, which helped me get accustomed to them. Am now on 125mcg daily and feeling o.k.
I feel so poorly at the moment, having a scan next week on my knee, feeling queasy most of the time and my appetite isn't as it should be, thought I had a bug. I have never felt as cold as I do right now, I'm 3 pills in to my second pack of teva please advise what to do. I'm 71 going on 90 at the moment 😩
I thought I was the only one that this has happened to! I too wasnt fussy about my brand and just took what the pharmacy put in the bag... Well, I am fussy now! I am slowly coming right from 2 months of being in hell... I had similar symptoms to guillain barre _ minus the paralysis - and just cried constantly. The pain in my arms and torso was unlike any type of pain I had ever had - almost like pins and needles. Teva should be shut down.. I had no T3 reading. Even the doctor asked me what it felt like
What brand would you recommend, made in U.K. For preference. Having read this thread, I really don't want to take the TEVA new formulation - terrible joint pain, low mood, weight gain, cold, T3 low.
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Teva add it as a filler, an inert substance - which it isn't. Lloyds stock Teva because it's cheaper. Take it back and demand a replacement from your pharmacist and report it to Teva.
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