Liothyronine in UK

[beaton]

After many years of being happy taking Mercury T3, I'm struggling with the latest batch. I've yellow-carded it but I'm having problems with my surgery finding a replacement. My dispensing pharmacy can only supply Morningside or Mercury. Does anyone know which other brands are available on the NHS, please?

[Arlenka]

Hi, I’m in Scotland and have been prescribed Liothyronine by SigmaPharm Laboratories, LLC Bensalem, PA from USA

[Benji19 in reply to Arlenka]

Hi Arlenka can you help? I'm also in Scotland and was given Liothyronine Sigmapharm by a private endocrinologist as only t3 monotherapy helps me. It was incredible after only a couple of days. Now the NHS are helping me but all their liothyronine brands don't work and I'm bedbound again. I brought Sigmapharm liothyronine privately to see if it was my imagination. No it wasn't. 2 days later I was back to 50% energy. I now need to find a pharmacy in Scotland which will accept my NHS prescription for liothyronine. Many thanks in advance.

[Arlenka in reply to Benji19]

I’ve sent you a private message x

[buggles84]

I'm having problems with it too.

Luckily I have plenty of the last outdated batch.

I'm wondering if they added rt3 or t4 to it.

[beaton in reply to buggles84]

hi buggles, I'm so fed up with this. My surgery has left it up to me to find an alternative. As I said, I have yellow-carded the bad batch and have had replies from both the Yellowcard people and Advanz, so something is happening but that doesn't help me at the moment. x

[buggles84 in reply to beaton]

Purple card is the one we should be signing, but that's okay.

My pharmacy are going to contact Mercury pharma to resolve this.

In the meantime I think they are going to try and get me the old batch which is out of date but still effective.

[MaisieGray in reply to buggles84]

As I understood it, purple card reporting relates to significant events in the Care sector ie that regulated by the CQC. If I have this wrong, I'd appreciate if you could provide a link to an explanation of it being relevant to the non-Care population of medicine-takers?

I can't imagine that it would be remotely possibly that a manufacturer of T3 would be adding RT3 and/or T4 to its product.

[buggles84 in reply to MaisieGray]

Purple card = defective medication as you can see on thier website..... heard of specsavers lol

[MaisieGray in reply to buggles84]

My eyesight is properly monitored than you very much.

I have now spoken to the officer concerned at my local CCG, and exactly as I thought, it is the yellow card reporting system that is the vehicle for reporting side effects for instance, arising from taking a new drug or a new brand of a familiar drug. The purple card system is for reporting local events where there is a safety, training, or similar sort of issue arising from the event that prompted the report. Hence it is particularly relevent to the Care sector as I mentioned, where say, a controlled drug might have been wrongly dispensed to a client for instance; or a similar event on a hospital ward; or even unlawful or unprofessional actions such as those perpetrated by Harold Shipman. In my own case, when a branch of Boots gave my meds to another patient with the same surname, that was a purple card event. If a population of primary care patients were suddenly and seriously affected by meds of the same brand or all dispensed by say, the same pharmacy, that would be a purple card event. A single patient seeing a return of their symptoms as a result of a brand change, is a yellow card event.

Being facetious and deliberately withholding information requested perfectly properly and politely by another member, when you yourself have it, mightn't be considered within the spirit of this group.

[buggles84 in reply to MaisieGray]

Read the purple card section.....it says defective medication (not of an acceptable quality)

yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk

My pharmacist just confirmed this is correct for this instance!

Here's a meaning of defective.

collinsdictionary.com/dicti...

[MaisieGray]

Hi beaton You can see which brands are listed in the BNF here: bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-f...

I'm sending you a PM.

[beaton in reply to MaisieGray]

Thanks MaiseGray, most useful xx

[buggles84]

What am I withholding!? Bizarre comment.

Read the purple card section.....it says defective medication (not of an acceptable quality)

yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk

My pharmacist just confirmed this is correct for this instance!

Here's a meaning of defective.

collinsdictionary.com/dicti...

[Babette]

Which batch are you having problems with? I'll check my batches.

[beaton in reply to Babette]

Hi Babette, Mercury Batch number 85382 exp. 19 01 2020.

[Babette in reply to beaton]

Thank you. My unopened packets are the same batch so I'll see how I get on.

Someone else has yellow carded them: healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[beaton in reply to Babette]

Yes Babette, I think I know Jan for another site. x