Alternative to Mercury Pharma Levothyroxine

[Kimkat]

Yesterday I went to the pharmacy to collect my Levo prescription, to find that they had given me 50mcg Northstar and 25mcg Teva. Despite asking particularly for Mercury, I usually get another make given to me and need to exchange it, so I now open my bag in the Pharmacy before I walk out, anyway yesterday they couldn’t help me and gave me back my paper prescription note and I set off to find another chemist. After the 6th one I gave up, then my hubby suggested the last one in our area and I managed to get my Levo but the pharmacist did say that Mercury is getting harder to get hold of and they were the last boxes that they had. My question is, has anyone here who uses Mercury, managed to find another make that suits them? Northstar, Teva and Wockhardt give me wall to wall headaches 😟 any suggestions would be gladly received.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

I have created, and try to maintain, a document containing details of all thyroid hormone medicines in the UK and many in other countries.

helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines.pdf

This document has information about the available thyroid hormones in the UK and, in less detail, around the world.

dropbox.com/s/shcwdwpedzr93...

I suggest you contact Advanz (of whom Mercury Pharma are a subsidiary). They have often been helpful:

ADVANZ Pharma

Capital House, 1st Floor, 85 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BL, UK

Telephone

[phone]

Medical Information Direct Line

08700 70 30 33

Customer Care direct line

[phone]

WWW

advanzpharma.com

Medical Information e-mail

[e-mail]

For England, you can find other pharmacies in your area by looking here:

nhs.uk/service-search/find-...

I think similar information is also available in the other three nations.

[Kimkat in reply to helvella]

Thank you helvella, I’ll give them a try.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Kimkat

Northstar, Teva and Wockhardt give me wall to wall headaches

In that case you need to avoid Accord and Almus (which is Accord rebranded for Boots) as these are the same as Northstar (which is Accord rebranded for Lloyds Pharmacy in the 50mcg and 100mcg tablets and Teva in the 25mcg tablets).

ThyroidUK have a list of levothyroxine makes on their main website here (scroll down a bit):

thyroiduk.org/if-you-are-hy...

You can click on each one to check out their ingredients to find what's closest to Mercury. You can also contact Mercury themselves to see if there is a problem and if they can tell you where to obtain their brand and I see that Helvella has given you the contact information.