🟨 Making Yellow Card Reports 🟨

[helvella]

I encourage you to report ALL side effects and bad experiences with ALL medicines including vaccines and diagnostic testing kits. In the UK, use the Yellow Card reporting system to inform the MHRA about any medicine issue you experience - or even suspect.

If in doubt, shout!

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🟨 Making Yellow Card Reports 🟨

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There are other routes outside the UK. For example the USA's FDA has a reporting mechanism. The European Medicines Agency handles reports for centrally licensed products - each country handles its own for nationally licensed products.

[Triciatextiles]

One question - if i report an issue is this confidential ?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Triciatextiles]

Rather than me trying to re-word it, I suggest you read the MHRA's own privacy policy statement:

yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/priv...

Hopefully that answers your question?

[Triciatextiles in reply to helvella]

yes it does - many thanks

[SlowDragon Administrator]

gov.uk/drug-safety-update/l...For the 5-year period between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2019, the MHRA received 335 Yellow Cards reporting one or more of the terms ‘product substitution issue’, ‘condition aggravated’ or ‘drug ineffective’ with levothyroxine. The majority of reports were received from patients rather than healthcare professionals, with 47 of the cases having a healthcare professional reporter. Associated symptoms were mostly consistent with hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism, and included fatigue, headache, malaise, anxiety, palpitations, pruritus, nausea, myalgia, dizziness, arthralgia, feeling abnormal, alopecia, depression, abnormal weight gain, and insomnia.

So if reporting issues use one or all of these three descriptions

product substitution issue’, ‘condition aggravated’ or ‘drug ineffective’

[JGBH]

Can we report side effects from the Covid vaccines too? I presume soo... but not sure.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to JGBH]

Follow my link - there is more information there AND on the Yellow Card site.

[JGBH in reply to helvella]

Thanks will look more closely.

[RhianR in reply to JGBH]

Yes! All covid V side effects, however minor they may seem must be reported, as with any other drugs.

[JGBH in reply to RhianR]

Thanks. yes have reported my side effects. Most important.

[crimple]

I have completed a yellow card because of the issues (vertigo) that i suffered from within 24 hours of my jabs.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to crimple]

Am sorry you had issues, but (very) glad you have reported them.

[crimple]

I had serious issues with Teva back in 2012 but didn't know about yellow cards then. Fortunately we moved house and I went onto Actavis and the stomach issues went away within a week or so. I am quite obsessive about checking my thyroid meds now, as for me the offending filler is acacia powder.Although my intermittent vertigo from the AZ jab is quite annoying at times, I definitely don't want Covid. At least after the second AZ jab the vertigo wasn't quite as bad.