Suppliers of T3 in Europe

[cfft20021]

Good morning,

I have just moved to Portugal and need to find any suppliers of T3 in Europe. Thank you in advance.

[RobinAnn]

Do you mean with a prescription? Germany pharmacies sell thybon henning 20 mcg or 100 mcg.

[cfft20021 in reply to RobinAnn]

No, this would be a private purchase, as it is not a prescribed medication in Portugal.

[StitchFairy]

What are the rules about T3 in Portugal? Can you not get it on prescription from a doctor? Or just buy it in a pharmacy like some other countries?

[cfft20021 in reply to StitchFairy]

Not t prescribed at all, also not available privately. Only given in hospital under emergency situations.

[StitchFairy in reply to cfft20021]

Gosh, I thought it was bad here in the UK, but that's awful. Is importing for your own use legal there though, like it is in the UK?

[cfft20021 in reply to StitchFairy]

You would have to consider import taxes ( and legality) as we are an EU nember

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Welcome to the forum

There’s nothing on your profile

Are you on levothyroxine and T3 or just T3

Is T3 prescribed

[cfft20021 in reply to SlowDragon]

Hallo there , T3 only. Was prescribed in the US.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to cfft20021]

Best bet is ongoing prescription from USA

[helvella Administrator in reply to SlowDragon]

Better check it is legal to import for self from USA. Portuguese law could well be different to UK.

[helvella Administrator]

I cannot identify suppliers (as in pharmacies), but I have a list which contains many of the products available in many European (and other) countries.

I am in the process of updating Brazil levothyroxine and was just about to find out about liothyronine there. But I don't think there is any liothyronine available in Portugal - any that is needed seems to be a special import. Maybe Sanofi Cynomel from France or Thybon Henning from Germany,

The list does, though, include Ace Cytomel in Netherlands. They appear willing to discuss supplying pharmacies and hospitals in other countries so would be a reasonable place to mention if you are getting liothyronine prescribed.

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[AppleOrchard in reply to helvella]

This is an amazing document! Did you create it yourself? Thank you very much for sharing it.Do you happen to know if you can buy T3 over the counter in France? Or how could I get it there (I live in the UK, but used to live in France.).

Thank you very much.

[helvella Administrator in reply to AppleOrchard]

We occasionally get reports of people buying T3 OTC in France - but many of us suspect this is not officially allowed but people get lucky. Of course, location might make a difference with the regime being enforced more or less strongly across the country.

Yes - all my own work! An ongoing mission.

[AppleOrchard in reply to helvella]

Thank you very much! It’s an amazing document! It must be a huge amount of work. I might try when I’m there. I’ll be in various places so can try different pharmacies.

Thank you again.

[helvella Administrator in reply to AppleOrchard]

Most commonly it would be Sanofi Cynomel in 25 microgram tablets but in recent years there was along period of very restricted supply. Hopefully that is now over.

(Sanofi also own Henning who make Thybon Henning in Germany. It can also sometimes be available in France. Possibly due to the Cynomel shortage. That would be in 20 microgram tablets.)

[AppleOrchard in reply to helvella]

I will give it a try and see how it goes. I don't really mind what I get as I am not sure the 5 mcg will make a huge difference - although perhaps it does!

[helvella Administrator in reply to AppleOrchard]

If you come across anything that isn't in my document, or something that is wrong, please do let me know!

I can't keep my eye on everything at once.

[AppleOrchard in reply to helvella]

Can you buy it over the counter in the Netherlands or Switzerland? Thank you!

[jade_s in reply to AppleOrchard]

Only on prescription in France & Netherlands, and Germany and Belgium etc. Likely same for Switzerland.

Greece & Turkey are the main places people go for OTC T3.

[helvella Administrator in reply to jade_s]

I'm not convinced that it is technically OTC even in Greece. Just that custom and practice seems to end up with some people being able to buy without prescription.

Definitely not OTC in Netherlands.

[jade_s in reply to helvella]

True, and same in Turkey, it's also technically on prescription as is levo but both are usually sold otc for some crazy reason.

[cfft20021 in reply to jade_s]

Do we have confirmation on availability in Greece? That would be much closer (for me at least ) than Turkey, also which brand is sold in Greece? Thanks in advance

[helvella Administrator in reply to cfft20021]

The primary brand we see from Greece is UniPharma.

(See my document.)

But we in the UK now get Roma liothyronine hard capsules which are made by Galenica in Greece and are also, I believe, available within Greece.

[1239 in reply to helvella]

I saw on a different forum that someone had had their prescription changed to Roma but they said it was banned in the EU for containing titanium dioxide. Do you know if this is correct?

[helvella Administrator in reply to 1239]

It is rubbish.

The EU has moved against titanium dioxide in foods.

But they know full well that getting rid of it from medicines is probably going to take at least ten years. And, in general, the amount consumed in medicines is modest.

(I did go and check the current status in the EU. I also contacted my MP about it in foods. Because this could represent the first divergence of UK and EU food standards. Probably theoretical as the cost and effort of retaining titanium dioxide for the UK only - even when not allowed in Northern Ireland - would probably be ludicrous. But, in general, I don't want things in my food which are not allowed else where.)

[1239 in reply to helvella]

Thank you. Reports seem to have been favourable about the Roma T3 as it contains less fillers. I did want to try it and as I think the other person has the same endo as me I’ll be getting moved to it as well!

[Gingernut44 in reply to helvella]

Hi helvella, I’m not sure if Roma capsules are available in Greece. I have been messaging a member of the forum in Greece and his Pharmacy hadn’t heard of them, even under the name Galenica. He did find out that they are manufactured in Serbia for Galenica.If anyone knows that they are available otc in Greece, it would be good to know.

[helvella Administrator in reply to Gingernut44]

I did at one point see them mentioned on a Greek web site - but cannot now find them. And it could just be me thinking it said they were available in Greece.

The Greek government medicines site is here: eof.gr/web/guest

Afraid searching foreign language sites which use non-Latin alphabets - and are declined - isn't easy!

There is also this site which has lots of information - again, language makes it difficult.

Anyone able to help here?

Manufacturer name & address for Roma liothyronine capsules

[Gingernut44 in reply to helvella]

It’s all Greek to me 🤪 I’m afraid my knowledge of languages other than English isn’t the best. Perhaps gback could help out.

If by chance you do remember where you saw it might be available in Greece you could keep us informed 🙏

[helvella Administrator in reply to Gingernut44]

I have not managed to find it mentioned again. But Galenica's website is now accessible in English! (Maybe there was a technical issue? I know I had problems accessible it at all.)

They do NOT list liothyronine in any form. (That could be a matter of being out of date. Always difficult to know.)

galenica.gr/en/

[Gingernut44 in reply to helvella]

I did say to gback when messaging him that Galenicas website doesn’t even have Liothyronine listed at all. It’s very weird - if they were happy to announce a new product, you’d think it would be spread all over their website. !!!

[helvella Administrator in reply to Gingernut44]

Does say © 2021 on their website - so at least six months out of date - which puts it before the launch of Roma in the UK.

[Gingernut44 in reply to helvella]

Well, I think if I had a new product, I’d have my website updated. They obviously make too much money 🤨

[jade_s in reply to cfft20021]

Yes search the forum for Greece or Crete and you will find recent posts

[AppleOrchard in reply to jade_s]

If only I was going to Greece this year!!

[AppleOrchard in reply to jade_s]

Thank you for the info! I’m not sure why I asked about Switzerland. It’s so strict there about everything.

[jade_s in reply to AppleOrchard]

It’s so strict there about everything.

Lol that was my thought too.