free from ' T3' options please?

[AmberBee]

I have a prescription for t3, are there any lactose free options please?

& where am I able to find some at a reasonable cost please.

Health treatments are bank breakers

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

I am not entirely sure what you are asking for!

Below you will find all UK liothyronine (T3) tablets plus some details about quite a few non-UK products. Where I have been able, I have included links to documentation about quite a number of them. You can use these links to check whatever you want to know about ingredients.

Best you choose which ones you might want ask ask about where you can get them.

UK Liothyronine Tablets and Oral Solutions

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Last updated 10/10/2020.

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 20117-0270

🟢 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.

If there is anything inaccurate in this information, please let me know by Private Message, or on the forum:

healthunlocked.com/user/hel...

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This document is updated whenever I am aware of any changes or enhancements are needed. Please check the Last updated date. The current version is available as a PDF here:

dropbox.com/s/xlibro9l9jbfb...

The PDF version of this document has a QR code above this sentence. If your device has a camera and can interpret QR codes, this QR code should take you to the same place as the link and make it easier to download on devices, such as phones and tablets.

[AmberBee in reply to helvella]

Thank you! Very helpful and exactly what I was looking for. Have read on here that different brand suit different people.

[chrysalis56 in reply to helvella]

Dear Helvella,

A thousand thanks for this information. I had no idea that such a liothyronine (T3) list existed.

Concerning Pfizer brand Cytomel (available in the US), I understand that the Sigmapharm brand of liothyronine is a generic of the Pfizer drug (also, far cheaper). I wonder whether my body would respond differently to the generic?

I greatly appreciated the link to the detailed dailymed (NIH/gov) article, describing the Sigmapharm liothyronine in depth. It contains a wealth of information. For those who "split-dose" as I do, among the points made is that only the 25 mcg and 50 mcg tablets are bisected. By way of comparison, the Sanofi-Aventis Cynomel, currently gone missing, is scored for 4-way splitting.

Wishing all of you good health,

chrysalis56

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to chrysalis56]

The list only exists because I have created it!

I found it so very difficult to post the information on this forum such that it is readable (and not just unformatted text), that I decided to put some effort in.

I think far too much is made of "brand" versus "generic".

Certainly there are many who get on better with one of the so-called generics.

Bear in mind that Cytomel goes back something like 60 years. So far as I can tell, was never patented. Many changes have occurred over that time even if the basic formulation appears the same.

I see it as very individual. You get on with whichever one(s) you get on with!

I have been unable to work out what is happening, but it looks as if Pfizer might have disposed of, or currently be disposing of, Cytomel. Is that why there is also Greenstone made by the same third-party company as Pfizer Cytomel?

[chrysalis56 in reply to helvella]

Thank you for putting together that list, and for sharing your wisdom.

My best,

chrysalis56

[AmberBee in reply to helvella]

Thank you for the invaluable list, very helpful and takes much confusion out of the options available.

[Gingernut44 in reply to helvella]

Hi helvella, I’ve been trying to find out what the excipients are in the various brands of T3 on your list. I can’t seem to get further than clicking on the links - I’m getting a message that the “blobs” aren’t available !! whatever they are 😏 what am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Gingernut44]

Drat and double-drat.

MHRA document store is awful! It has the documents but getting hold of them...

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

My document has the PL numbers for each UK product. Use the link above and type the PL number into the search bar.

I'll look further into this.

I wanted to use the MHRA document store as they are guaranteed to exist and should always be available. But if they are playing games with the links, it won't work.

It appears that the links I obtained have been updated - but as the documents have not changed, I have no idea why they would do that. Some seem fine - I'll check through them all and update my document.

[Gingernut44 in reply to helvella]

Many thanks for that and all your work trying to help us all

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Gingernut44]

I have now updated the document - both on this thread and the downloadable version.

I *hope* the links work now!

Thank you for telling me about the issue. Obviously I cannot realisitically check every day so do rely on everyone to let me know of any problems.

[Gingernut44 in reply to helvella]

Many thanks helvella, will have to look later. If I get any problems I’ll let you know.

I have the PIL for Uni Pharma T3 with excipients if that’s of any use ?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Gingernut44]

Yes - would very much like it.

Would you send it to [e-mail] and ask them to forward it to helvella? Please.

[Lalatoot]

If the lactose free is TEVA it is okay. It is TEVA levo that causes problems for some.

[AmberBee in reply to Lalatoot]

Read on here that different ones suit different people, helpful to know where others have problems👍