Dr Scurr's treatment for thyroid coma

[pffft2017]

In yesterday's Daily Mail ( 14th May '19 ) a patient described how she went into a thyroid coma after suffering undiagnosed hypothyroidism for what must have been a very, very long time. Dr Scurr stated she would have been treated with a thyroxine drip, I feel sure the first line of treatment is an injection of liothyronine considering how long thyroxine takes to be effective. Are the NHS now instructing doctors to deny the existence of liothyronine?

[MaisieGray]

I doubt she would be given an injection of liothyronine, it would have been given intravenously at a steady rate. However I think you are being misled by the article's reference to thyroxine, to understand it wrongly, to mean Levothyroxine. If you look at some Patient Information Leaflets (PIL) for Liothyronine Sodium, they state something along the lines of "Liothyronine Sodium tablets are a form of thyroxine which is quick acting and long lasting", and that Dr is obviously using it in that way. So no, it's not evidence of a conspiracy to deny the existence of Liothyronine.

[NWA6]

And an article in this rag today that says many are given Levothyroxine unnecessarily 😩 Best to just avoid unless you have the time an inclination to complain to the paper 🧻