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Hi I'm continuing to have problems. I ordered my monthly prescription for liothyronine MercuryPharma. My usual pharmacist ordered it for me, and actually had the drug in his pharmacy. A few days later I received a call from the pharmacy to say that when they checked my prescription to dispense my liothyronine they couldnt because the brand name had been removed from my prescription.

I've been in contact with my GPS surgery to find that medicines management looked at my prescribing screen and removed the brand from it. No one contacted me, this was done at the end of august.

The pharmacy apparently cannot dispense me liothryronine without a brand on the script.

I've been told that the CCG have removed it from their prescribing formulary.

Three available Morningside, Teva ( don't even go there the side effects are horrible) and ? Activist never heard of the latter.

Can someone offer me any advice as to what I do now, I've only got a few tablets left.

I'm in despair and actually could sit and cry as I've had 18 years of problems after having a total thyrodectomy, even having to take early retirement ( losing thousands in income as I was nowhere near retirement age & wasn't put on long sick either. When my then gp decided to reduce both my T4/T3 combination by two doses of both drugs on the comment of someone from the path lab ( panic stations because of my low TSH 0.01 this has been my norm for many years. I was told by an endo that T3 causes this and it's effects are permanent ,feels like the last nail in the coffin lid.

Help needed from all you fellow suffers.

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So far as I am aware the information below includes all makes/brands of liothyronine tablets available in the UK.

It seems unlikely that a new Actavis product would be launched as the company Accord, which took over the UK generic products part of Actavis, is in the process of changing branding to Accord.

Of course, I don't know everything.

MHRA medicine documents for "liothyronine" are available here:

products.mhra.gov.uk/search...

UK Liothyronine Tablets and Oral Solutions

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Last updated 15/09/2020.

This is a list of currently marketed liothyronine tablets in the UK.

Please note that re-branding (whether by a manufacturer or as an ‘own label supplier’) – which has happened with several products – does not mean any change to formulation.

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🔹 Advanz (marketing authorisation holder) – branded Mercury Pharma (also branded Tertroxin but not marketed under that brand in the UK)

🏭 Custom Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (manufacturer)

🥛 contains lactose

  20 microgram  PL 10972-0033

🟢 PIL mhraproducts4853.blob.core....

🟣 SPC mhraproducts4853.blob.core....

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🔹 Morningside (marketing authorisation holder) – branded Morningside Liothyronine and Iraksin

🏭 Morningside Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (manufacturer)

🥛 contains lactose

  5 microgram  PL 20117-0323

  10 microgram  PL 20117-0324

  20 microgram  PL 20117-027

🟢 PIL Morningside Liothyronine & Iraksin 5, 10 & 20 microgram mhraproducts4853.blob.core....

🟣 SPC Morningside Liothyronine & Iraksin 5 microgram mhraproducts4853.blob.core....

🟣 SPC Morningside Liothyronine & Iraksin 10 microgram mhraproducts4853.blob.core....

🟣 SPC Morningside Liothyronine & Iraksin 20 microgram mhraproducts4853.blob.core....

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🔹 Teva – (marketing authorisation holder)

🏭 TEVA Gyógyszergyár Zrt. in Hungary (manufacturer)

No lactose ingredient

  20 microgram  PL 00289/2116

🟢 PIL mhraproducts4853.blob.core....

🟣 SPC mhraproducts4853.blob.core....

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Some non-UK Liothyronine Tablets

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🔹 Abdi Ibrahim (marketing authorisation holders – Turkey) – branded Tiromel

🏭 Abdi Ibrahim, Turkey (manufacturer)

🥛 contains lactose

  25 microgram  

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🔹 Ace (marketing authorisation holder – Netherlands) – branded Cytomel

🏭 Ace (manufacturer)

  5 microgram  

  12.5 microgram  

  25 microgram  

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🔹 Greenstone (marketing authorisation holder – USA) – branded Greenstone

🏭 Peptido GmbH in Germany (manufacturer)

No lactose ingredient

  5 microgram  NDC 59762-1206-1

  25 microgram  NDC 59762-1207-1

  50 microgram  NDC 59762-1208-1

🟢🟣 dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailym...

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🔹 Grossman Cynomel (marketing authorisation holder – Mexico)

🏭 Grossman subsidiary of Bausch (formerly Valeant) in Mexico (manufacturer)

  25 microgram  

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🔹 IBSA oral solution (marketing authorisation holder – Italy) – branded Liotir

🏭 IBSA Farmaceutici Italia S.r.l in Italy (manufacturer)

No lactose ingredient

  5 microgrammi/ml

  10 microgrammi/ml

  15 microgrammi/ml

  20 microgrammi/ml

🟢 PIL – farmaci.agenziafarmaco.gov....

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🔹 Mayne Pharma (marketing authorisation holder – USA) – branded Mayne Pharma (formerly Libertas, Perrigo and Paddock)

🏭 manufactured in Germany (manufacturer)

No lactose ingredient

  5 microgram   NDC 51862-320-01

  25 microgram  NDC 51862-321-01

  50 microgram  NDC 51862-322-01

🟢🟣 dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailym...

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🔹 Pfizer (marketing authorisation holder – USA) – branded Cytomel

🏭 Peptido GmbH manufactured in Austria and/or Germany

No lactose ingredient

  5 microgram  NDC 60793-115-01

  25 microgram  NDC 60793-116-01

  50 microgram  NDC 60793-117-01

🟢🟣 dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailym...

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🔹 Sanofi (marketing authorisation holder – France) – branded Cynomel

🏭 PATHEON FRANCE in France (manufacturer)

No lactose ingredient

  25 microgram  ANSM 34009 302 775 5 3

🟢 PIL (French) base-donnees-publique.medic...

🟣 SPC base-donnees-publique.medic...

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🔹 Sanofi Deutschland (marketing authorisation holder – Germany) – branded Henning Thybon

🏭 Sanofi-Aventb, Barcelona, Spain (manufacturer)

No lactose ingredient

  20 microgram   ZN 6085344.00.00

  100 microgram   ZN 6085344.01.00

🟢 PIL 20 (German) mein.sanofi.de/produkte/Thy...

🟢 PIL 20 (English translation – out of date) dropbox.com/s/ccfr0tnmr7nom...

🟢 PIL 100 (German) mein.sanofi.de/produkte/Thy...

🟣 SPC 20 & 100 (German) mein.sanofi.de/produkte/Thy...

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🔹 SigmaPharm (marketing authorisation holder – USA)

🏭 Sigmapharm Laboratories, LLC in USA (manufacturer)

No lactose ingredient

  5 microgram  NDC 42794-018-12

  25 microgram  NDC 42794-019-12

  50 microgram  NDC 42794-020-12

🟢🟣 dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailym...

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🔹 Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (marketing authorisation holder – USA)

🏭 Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited in USA (manufacturer)

No lactose ingredient

  5 microgram  NDC:62756-589-83, NDC:62756-589-88, NDC:62756-589-08, NDC:62756-589-18

  25 microgram  NDC:62756-590-83, NDC:62756-590-88, NDC:62756-590-08, NDC:62756-590-18

  50 microgram  NDC:62756-591-83, NDC:62756-591-88, NDC:62756-591-08, NDC:62756-591-18

🟢🟣 dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailym...

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🔹 Uni-Pharma (marketing authorisation holder – Greece)

🏭 Uni-Pharma in Greece (manufacturer)

  25 microgram  

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🔹 – identifies marketing authorisation holder (or equivalent in other countries)

🔸 – identifies ‘own label supplier’ products

🏭 – identifies manufacturers (where known)

🥛 – contains lactose

🟢 PIL – Patient Information Leaflet

🟣 SPC – Summary of Product Characteristics document

🟢🟣 – Single document combining typical PIL and SPC information

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Numbers refer to tablet dosages in micrograms.

Only products which definitely contain lactose are identified (🥛 contains lactose). Please always check other products. Where products are ‘own label supplier’, check the marketing authorisation holder for the specific product.

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Lalatoot

I use Morningside without a problem. I have also had TEVA without a problem - it is the fillers in the levo that causes a bad reaction.

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fuchsia-pink

I've never had to put a brand on my lio (or my levo come to that). Normally get teva lio (don't be scared of their lio - it's the Teva levo that causes so many people problems) - or whatever else they can get ...

But I suppose CCGs may not all be the same. Hope you get meds that suit soon x

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Picketywitch in reply tofuchsia-pink

Hi thanks. I had to take TEVA Liothyronine for 5 months a few years ago and it gave me the most awful abdominal pains and I felt even more tired than normal. Finally then got Mercury Pharma on my script. I'm sure I've read somewhere on here other people experiencing similar problems. I don't know why things cannot be left alone when what I'm taking I'm managing with.

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Pharmacy is telling porkies

You don’t need brand name on prescription to be prescribed liothyronine

You may need to request pharmacy gets you your preferred brand.

Possibly the brand name has been changed to Advanz, but it should still be same product in box

They have just changed Mercury Pharma levothyroxine to read Advanz on box

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Nellups

I have either Morningside or Mercury brand depending which they have and both are fine

It’s only the Levo that’s a problem with different brands

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