How long for Teva Levo side effects to disappear?

[TaraJR]

I live in UK and since 2016 I've been really well, taking 125 mcg Levo from my GP, plus 37.5 mcg Mercury Pharma T3 self sourced from Greek pharmacies. I'm ok on various brands of Levo, but I asked for no TEVA as I once had lots of headaches on them. This time I didn't check in the pharmacy and was given 2 boxes of TEVA Levo 25 mcg. Then I started getting lots of skipped (ectopic?) heartbeats every day. I threw the last few away, but took 12 days worth. Those odd heartbeats are getting less, so I really think it's the TEVA levo pills. How long will it take for them to be finally out of my system?

[DotLeeds]

After7 days you should start to feel better but I found some side effects took 2 to 3 weeks to disappear completely.

[Smelly12 in reply to DotLeeds]

That's not everyone and ordipends how long you been on them cas mines 6weeks off that teva an still not well so ordipends I think

[jodary]

I started taking 25mcg of Mercury Pharma some weeks ago. I took them for a month. I have also been having those skipped beats. I didn't make any connection until I read something on here. I stopped taking them on Tuesday and I was wondering the same thing in how long it would take to improve if it was anything to do with that. I am having a echocardiogram on Wed as it was worrying me so much.

[TaraJR in reply to jodary]

jodary Oh dear. It's quite un-nverving, but I do hope it's connected to Teva.

The Teva 25 mcg tablets are way bigger than my 100 mcg Actavis. So there's a large amount of fillers in them. I'll yellow card my batch, even though I've thrown the last few away.

It's also annoying as I've got an endo appointment next week, and I have to convince him that I need my self- sourced 37.5 T3, even though my TSH is 0.05 ! I'm in Norfolk, and they are going to let patients have T3, even from a GP after a 3 month endo trial. My chance comes next week!

Perhaps you can reply here when you've had your echocardiogram. Good luck.

[jodary in reply to TaraJR]

Hi yes will do. I am going to have to insist on seeing an endo , my gp is resistant but my blood tests are all over the place. My tsh was 6.7 and t4 20.9 then after her reducing my t4 dose from 100 to 75mcg because she said my t4 was too high , hence the 25mcg of mercury pharma my tsh was 8.7 and my t4 17.9. I have felt unwell since reducing the dose, I had been on 100mcg for 30 years. These ectopic beats are all I need .

[carroll998 in reply to jodary]

What's our ft3 level?