Spain prescription?

[peter551]

Hi everyone, does anyone have any reputable online pharmacies from Spain (or maybe some other country) that ship levothyroxine to UK/Ireland?

I have prescription for it. I would be grateful if anyone can send it to PM.

Thanks a lot

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

peter551,

We might be better able to understand how to help if we understood why you need or want to get levothyroxine from Spain (or elsewhere) rather than within the UK or Ireland.

As you have a prescription, it is not obvious why you do not simply go to a local pharmacy and get the levothyroxine dispensed.

[peter551 in reply to helvella]

Hi helvella,

Thank you for your help. I just recently moved to Ireland from Croatia and have prescriptions from my private endo for euthyrox which is not available in Ireland as far as I can find online (its basic levothyroxine but under different name).

Spain has it so I was looking to just order from there until I have a chance to pop back to Croatia for a year supply (like I did with T3). Thanks for your help

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to peter551]

According to my imperfect notes, Euthryox is possibly available in:

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden

However, be warned, the products might not all be identical! And I know nothing about your chances of getting the medicine sent against a Croatian prescription. Nor do I know anything about the legality of personally importing to Ireland.

[peter551 in reply to helvella]

Thats a pretty complete list you have My endo told me that prescription issued in any EU member should be valid so I hope he was right about that. Thanks a lot for your help helvella, I will keep searching

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to peter551]

Although a prescription might be valid, I think that it is up to each pharmacy to decide whether to accept a "foreign" prescription.

It might have been easier had it been written for "levothyroxine"!

[peter551 in reply to helvella]

It would probably be easier but that is a lesson for the future, next time I will tell my endo to give me generic name. It is funny because for T3 i have 3 prescriptions (generic liothyronine, cytomel and thybone) as he was concerned about me finding it.

[Meg17 in reply to helvella]

If not traveling to Spain for ex maybe family or friend could pick up prescription for your. Had family travelling to Spain on a regular basis were able to buy the exactly the same products over thd counter there. Didn't have to produce their prescriptions but had them to habdvad a fail safe. Good luck.

[Meg17 in reply to Meg17]

Sorry re spelling didn't check it sorry! Before I let it off.

[peter551 in reply to Meg17]

Thanks a lot Meg, I forgot to update my situation, I was able to fill my prescription in Ireland after some searching around pharmacies. Thanks again for suggestion and help!

[endomad]

i get 3 monthly UK prescriptions which i fill in france for t3 cynomel but i collect when in france rather than post, some countries are against postal drugs. I do know people who send prescriptions to germany and get them sent back to uk. Best to check what import/postal rules are in ireland first or they can confiscate.