thankyou. I will now phone and apologise to pharmacist. I fell off my perch as it was a different brand and a bigger box … clearly hadn’t paid attention before. Ah well x
Liothyroxine - is this a mix of levo & lio - what is the brand? If I search for it - I can find a reference.
Can you check spelling & add brand. Are they dispensed in separate bottle? (Pharmacist may have put incorrect spelling on label) I’ve recently had a medicine with error printed on instructions- “adn” hand crossed out and corrected to and.
A manufactures patient information leaflet should always be supplied.
I’ve heard of Liothyronine by Roma. (LT3)
How much levothyoxine to you take 75mcg? Or are a quantity of 74 pills being dispensed, for month?
I think this is a simple mistake. I saw a clinician had written levothyronine on a blood test request form the other day. There's no such thing as levothyronine or liothyroxine.
There are even research papers which got the name wrong!
I suspect that it is most often a typo which never got corrected.
One of the hits is to Effects of L-Thyroxine and Liothyroxine on Spermatogenesis.
But if you find that actual paper, from 1958, its heading is correct and it uses the work Liothyronine. So I suspect Optical Character Recognition made a mistake.
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