Levo brands

[Moon0110]

Hi All I take alternating doses of 100/125 daily.Was on Aristo -100 & 25Tevo. changed to all Tevo and am struggling. Is there a summary somewhere that can help to understand the differences with the brands.Thank-you

[helvella Administrator]

A sizeable proportion of members find Teva a problem. We suspect it might be due to containing mannitol (rather than lactose or other bulking agents).

My document has a chart of available products and onward links to more details.

helvella's medicines document can be found here:

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[Moon0110 in reply to helvella]

thankyou and thank goodness for this list,will take a look.

Is there a combo that seems to work for most people.Aristo only comes in 100s..

[helvella Administrator in reply to Moon0110]

It is difficult as we are all different!

I suspect most find Wockhardt acceptable - but it does contain lactose.

We are hoping that, later this year, Aristo will launch their own additional doses with at least 25 and 50 microgram dosages. They are already shown as available in Ireland (and their home country, Germany).

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Moon0110]

It might be worth having a chat with your pharmacist, I was recently prescribed Aristo 50mcg... which don't exist! But rather than have that conversation with the surgery (as like Helvella says hopefully this year they will exist) Pharmacist happy to give me Aristo 100mcg to split as I didn't want Teva 😅 perhaps then take the extra 50mcg every 4 days?

Pharmacist happy that they split in half but possibly would like to split more but once you have them you can do as you feel 🙃you just have to make compliant noises whilst there 🤗

[Moon0110 in reply to TiggerMe]

Thankyou have started the conversation with the pharmacy.But they cannot guarantee aristo all the time.It’s a local pharmacy.Will try the larger pharmacies to see if they can.

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Moon0110]

If you have it named on your prescription then they can get it in especially for you 🤗

[Moon0110 in reply to TiggerMe]

that’s useful .will speak with the doctor .thankyou

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Moon0110]

Aristo needs to appear on the top line of the script if you have a really pedantic pharmacist.... let me go find the graphic

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Moon0110]

Found it! Mine is written the wrong way but I have a great pharmacist!

Correct prescription

[Moon0110 in reply to TiggerMe]

This is really useful,so it can be specified by the Doc.I will speak with them and see if they will do this. 😘Thankyou feel like I have options now

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Moon0110]

Mine still don't do it right but luckily the Pharmacist is excellent 🤗

[Moon0110]

yes let’s hope they do😀