Note on prescription please issue Lactulose (think it's a typo & should be lactose) on next repeat

[Shaldon]

Has anyone else had this on their prescription? I physically cannot take lactose free Levrothyroxine. I have contacted the prescription department at the GP's but so far no response

[Regenallotment]

That is odd isn't it.

Lactolase is what you can take if you are lactose intolerant and might run into some dairy...

I googled lactulose - thats a laxative 🙈

I don't think you want either, surely you need Levo that INCLUDES lactose then? So not Teva and not Aristo. Something like Accord etc. 🌱

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

I think that they probably intended it to mean "NOT lactose-free".

But even that is possibly not helpful as it would exclude Aristo (which doesn't contain mannitol like Teva, but nor does it contain lactose).

As Regenallotment says, that is a laxative. See here:

medicines.org.uk/emc/produc...

[Shaldon]

I did have an email saying that it has now been removed from my repeat prescription but no explanation as to why or how it got on there