I would be grateful for any advice re: the cost of Liothyronine Sodium (T3). I am currently paying £125 for 90 5mcg tablets (lasts me a month) and have no idea if this is a reasonable price.
Also, I have been diagnosed and prescribed privately, having been refused treatment by 2 NHS Endos, and after 2 years of fine tuning meds, I am feeling much better. I would like to know if it is now possible to have the prescribing/cost taken over by an NHS doctor. I currently pay for doctor appointments, blood tests and medication, which is a lot, so all advice/info gratefully received.
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Buying 5mcg dose tablets or capsules is an expensive way of buying T3. It is much cheaper to buy 20mcg Thybon Henning T3 which costs around 50-60p per tablet. Ask you doctor if they will do that and you can quarter it with a pill cutter.
I'm not sure of your full history regarding diagnosis but I believe you were diagnosed privately in the end? This can make for difficulties should you at some future point want to transfer to NHS care, treatment & prescribing as your NHS GP needs to accept your diagnosis.
Have you discussed this with your GP and would they be willing to prescribe you levothyroxine?
What treatment are you taking? Just Levo or a combination of Levo+T3?
To be prescribed T3 on the NHS, treatment has to be initiated by an NHS Endo who gives you a trial for 3 months. Once all is well with the trial your GP should then take over prescribing.
What supplements are you taking?
When hypo we get low stomach acid which means we cannot absorb vitamins well from our food, regardless of a great diet. For thyroid hormone to work well we need OPTIMAL levels of vitamins. Have you recently or could you ask your GP to test levels of ferritin, folate, B12 & D3? Private tests are available, see link for companies offering private blood tests & discount codes, some offer a blood draw service at an extra cost. thyroiduk.org/help-and-supp...
I will get my doc to prescribe the 20mcg tablets as you suggest.
I have talked to my GP - she has recently referred me back to the Endo dept and I am awaiting an appointment. I think her logic is that I might get a different endo and a different result, and then she would do as directed. So we'll see.
Yes, my vitamins etc are pretty much optimum right now, and the GP would be willing to check these now and then, as I understand it. I do use discount codes for blood tests (Medichecks) and am hoping that now we seem to have hit the correct brand/dose/meds I will need fewer in the future. I am taking Levo/T3 combo, and that seems to work for me - at last!
Thanks again for the message, info and advice. Much appreciated.
OP might not be aware it is possible to source without extortionate overhead - which is why I let them know. They can choose; there is no difference after all, besides price of course.
Always check with myself or another member of the Admin team to see if we have any feedback on any recommendations that you are sent. There are some unscrupulous suppliers who will take your money and not send the medication. We know of suppliers who start out fulfilling orders then turn rogue and stop sending the tablets so always check with us regardless of who has sent you the recommendation.
Thank you for your message. I wasn't considering buying meds without prescription at this point, but will take it up with my doctor - who I am hoping will be able to help.
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