Levo brands info

[jacobite33]

Wondering if someone could quickly advice replacement brand of levo 100mcg Not Teva or Accord.Changing my brands all together and I have found a fantastic chemist that will try get what brand I need for a delivery tomorrow if ordered before 5.30 tonight.They will also ask for wockhardt 25mcg

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

My document tells you all the ones that are available:

dropbox.com/s/shcwdwpedzr93...

In 100 microgram tablets, avoiding Accord and Teva, you have a choice of Mercury Pharma levothyroxine or Mercury Pharma Eltroxin (which are absolutely identical to each other) or Aristo levothyroxine.

[jacobite33 in reply to helvella]

HELSvela Angel

Thank you!!!!!!

I have been following your posts on levo brands took screenshots and so.Too many to flick through with all the other screenshots.The info I read has been flushed down the memory U-bend too

Once again fantastic!

Thank you!

[LAHs in reply to helvella]

Wow, what an incredible resource! With such an enormous list of thyroid medications it makes you wonder why the medical profession is so pathetic on this subject. If every GP would just experiment with three medications per ailing patient and then report their findings to some "crowd source", even if they first ended up with something like "Teva Bad, Pfizer Good" it would narrow the field and be one small step for mankind.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to LAHs]

And it is far from complete!

There are many others - especially from companies which operate in languages other than English.

[LAHs in reply to helvella]

Yes, I did notice it didn't have Armour on it nor the acronym NDT, although ThyroGold was mentioned (which is one of the latter).

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to LAHs]

Around about page 49!

Desiccated Thyroid

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A list of desiccated thyroid products with declared thyroid hormone content.

These might not all be approved medicines, but they are known and subject to some regulation and oversight.

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Canada

🔹Erfa – Thyroid by Erfa

🟣 eci2012.net/product/thyroid/

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Germany

🔹Kloesterl Apotheke, Munich – Thyreogland

kloesterl-apotheke.de/

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Thailand

🔹Sriprasit – Thyroid S

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USA

🔹Acella – NP Thyroid

🟣 acellapharma.com/product/np...

🔹Allergan – Armour Thyroid

(Formerly Forest and Actavis.)

🟣 allergan.com/products/armour

🔹RLC – Nature-Throid

🟣 naturethroid.com/

🔹RLC – WP Thyroid (Westhroid Pure)

🟣 wpthyroid.com/

I avoid use of the abbreviation NDT because I believe use of the term undermines the case for it being prescribed.

As soon as a doctor sees "natural" they will tend to switch off and dismiss the product.

[LAHs in reply to helvella]

Ah yes indeed, page 49, I was probably getting cross eyed by then. I searched for "Natural Desiccated", I should have chosen the second and third words - and as for Armour, I could have spelled it wrong! Good job I am not a Pharmacist.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to LAHs]

Just imagine how cross-eyed I became actually producing it!

Obviously I have no idea how you spelled/typed "Armour" when searching for it - but you did post with the correct spelling.

[RedApple Administrator in reply to LAHs]

I'm with helvella on this. These days, there's nothing 'natural' about desiccated thyroid, and in my experience, mentioning it to conventional medics engenders only raised eyebrows or feigned ignorance!

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to RedApple]

Medical doctors' view:

More recently, ‘natural” desiccated thyroid preparations are available in natural food stores and by mail order and may have none or potentially excessive quantities of thyroid hormone (15). Such preparations should be withdrawn from the market. ’

1~-7ssx/93/1~-~1$03.00/0 Endocrine Reviews Copyright 0 1993 by The Endocrine Society Vol. 14, No. 4 Printed in U.S.A. The Use and Misuse of Thyroid Hormone* ELI0 ROTI, ROBERTA MINELLIT, ELIANA GARDINIt, AND LEWIS E. BRAVERMAN

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