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Some Thyroid Medication Recalled.

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An article in today’s newsletter. It’s American I think, but it may be of interest to some.

webmd.com/drug-medication/n...

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tahoe_storm

yeah NP was recalled

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waveylines

Thanks Ellie -Louise there have already been several posts about this. Sone of the NP Thyroid batches have been recalled across the range of tablet strengths but not all. I think what has happened is the regulations re ndts have been tightened and the NDTs which do fluctuate a littel have fallen fowl of this causing big issues. Of course this is all to the advantage of big pharma and it synthetics production as people are forced to switch. Lol....

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to waveylines

Recall of Certain Lots of NP Thyroid

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waveylines in reply to helvella

Thanks Helvella , I shouldve posted the link but had done so before so was being a bit lazy.....lol

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Alanna012 in reply to waveylines

It makes me very angry. Of course what is dismissed is all the people doing well with no issues who suddenly find their medicine recalled.

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to Alanna012

Do bear in mind that historically there were far more USA recalls of levothyroxine than desiccated thyroid.

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waveylines in reply to Alanna012

Completely agree Alanna! Fed up with how ndt is being decimated. What also upsets me is that brands of levothyroxine and Liothyronine are also recalled and last I heard more frequently......yet ndt is being branded as unreliable. Ive been on it happily for about 15yrs. Found it much more even then the synthetics.

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Alanna012 in reply to waveylines

In my personal opinion, it doesn't help that some hypo sufferers in certain groups (not here thankfully) seem to become a bit radical about NDT brand potency and it's my personal opinion that it's not right to drive undue fear about a medicine (especially for new people trying to get their heads around having to go outside the conventional medical system) which is still helping a great many, such that the manufacturers feel no choice but to withdraw it altogether due to vigorous complaints. Also to unilaterally state that a certain med is useless, and warn people not to bother with it, when that same med is helping some.

In my opinion they think they are helping themselves but they are only helping big pharma. My opinion.

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waveylines in reply to Alanna012

Ha.....I know......I tried to respond to a particular site several times but am ignored each time. Ive carried on taking Acella during all of this saga and have been fine. The first recall I talked to my local pharmacist in the uk who supplies me . She said it was such a miniscule difference that the nhs doesn't recall such meds and to carry on so I did. . Ive not spoken yet about this one but theres now a shortage as a consequence......lol.

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Ellie-Louise in reply to waveylines

I didn’t know about it already being posted about or I wouldn’t have. Because of time limitations I usually only read the email topics and as I had only seen it yesterday, I just thought it was very new news. 😕

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Alanna012 in reply to Ellie-Louise

Don't worry, not everyone checks in everyday and looks through all the posts so they may have only caught your post on the subject.

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waveylines

Oh please don't worry about that Ellie-Louise! It is new news so you werent to know if you missed the other posts.......this site is very active and there are a lot of posts so would be easy to miss. Maybe it should've been pinned for a while. Ahhh it has been pinned if you look on the right side. Thanks Thyroid UK.

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helvellaAdministratorThyroid UK in reply to waveylines

No - not pinned - just comes up in Related Posts.

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waveylines in reply to helvella

Ahhh ok. Can it be pinned for a while? Just to make people aware to check their batches......must do mine!!

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