Mercury pharma brand hard to source

[Flowerpot108]

Anyone know any other brands that are the same as Mercury Pharma for Levo? The pharmacies around me say they are struggling to source it.

I think someone made an amazing spreadsheet, but I don't know how to find it.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Flowerpot108

Advanz made Mercury Pharma and Eltroxin, both the same tablets so any of those 3 names may be used by the pharmacy.

helvella made the attached chart, is that what you mean?

Levo

[Flowerpot108 in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thank you!

[Flowerpot108 in reply to SeasideSusie]

Has anyone swapped Mercury Pharma out for another brand (other than Teva which gives me a splitting headache) and found they took to it well?

I'll be going for Advanz first, but just in case

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Flowerpot108]

Sorry, no idea, it's not something I'd know about unless they'd made a post on the forum about it.

[helvella Administrator in reply to Flowerpot108]

Just to make sure you realise that Advanz Pharma own Mercury Pharma.

They produce two versions: A generic Levothyroxine and a branded version called Eltroxin. They are exactly the same tablets - just different packaging.

[Partner20 in reply to Flowerpot108]

Advanz manufactures Mercury levo so the formulation is the same. I have occasionally used Wockhardt levo 25mcg without any negative issues. Interestingly I have had no difficulty getting Mercury levo from my local branch of Boots.

[Flowerpot108 in reply to Partner20]

Oo good to know, maybe I'll try boots then!

[helvella Administrator in reply to SeasideSusie]

That version is slightly out of date! It doesn't show that Northstar is no longer available.

The latest versions of helvella's medicines documents (UK and Rest of the World) can be found here:

helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines

helvella has created, and tries to maintain, documents containing details of all thyroid hormone medicines in the UK and, in less detail, many others around the world.

This link takes you to a page which has direct links to the documents from Dropbox and Google Drive, and QR codes to make it easy to access from phones.

helvella.blogspot.com/p/hel...

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to helvella]

I'm a bit behind, I had that image saved, I'll have to swap it over

[helvella Administrator in reply to SeasideSusie]

It's not far off!

[Flowerpot108]

Tbf I'm struggling to understand that document 😅 I'll try accord if they don't have another Advanz made one.

[helvella Administrator in reply to Flowerpot108]

On the left side it shows the names that appear on packets.

Where the product is actually made by another company (e.g. Almus made by Accord), or one product is packed in under two names (e.g. Aristo under the generic "Levothyroxine" as well as their band name Vencamil), that is shown.

The next few columns show the dosages that are made.

Then three columns highlighting the ingredients most asked about. Lactose, mannitol and acacia. And a final column indicating whether they are generally available. (There might be short-term unavailability as well.)

For more detail, you have to go further down the document. Every product is listed. So far as possible, every product has a link to the Patient Information Leaflet, etc. where you can find full details.

[Auders]

Good morning to you Flowerpot, if its any help I find Accord (on 50mcg) works just as well as MP. Good luck x