Different doses different brands of Levo

[StormsPass]

Hello everyone. I am hoping for some advice.

Following a recent blood test I have now been asked to reduce my Levo. Currently on 75 and now I am reducing to 50 for 2 days a week and maintaining 75 for the rest as I am slightly over medicated.

I have been taking Teva 75 and would like to stay with Teva for the 50 but I have rung around several pharmacies and they don’t stock it at that dose.

My question is will it matter much if I am taking 2 different brands. I don’t want to make a mountain out of my own made up molehill!!

Thank you as always 🙃

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Teva is widely available in 25mcg, 50mcg, 75mcg and 100mcg

Try different pharmacies

Your last results in Dec endo said were fine on 75mcg

Have you had newer results since

[StormsPass in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you SlowDragon. I will continue ringing around.

Yes you are correct I have had new results test date 18th January

TSH 0.21 (0.27 - 4.2)

T4 23.5 (12-22)

T3 5.5 (3.1 - 6.8)

They are mostly the same as those done last December but my TSH has dropped from 0.4 to 0.21

I have just updated these in my bio

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to StormsPass]

What are your most recent vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

[StormsPass in reply to SlowDragon]

I tested these 2 months ago

HB 144 g/l (bottom range 126 - no top)

Ferretin 142 ug/L (10 - 410)

TSAT 41% (15 - 50)

Active B12 146 pmol/L (38 - no top)

Folate >20 ug/L (2 - no top)

Vitamin D 74 nmol/L (60 - 100) replete range

I have increased my Vit D following these tests.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to StormsPass]

So you do look very slightly over treated

Retest thyroid in 6-8 weeks

[StormsPass in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you very much SlowDragon

[helvella Administrator]

Might be worth reading this:

helvella - Mixing Levothyroxine Formulations

A discussion about mixing (and switching) formulations of levothyroxine.

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

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 QR codes to make it easy to access from phones.

The UK document contains up-to-date versions of the Summary Matrix for tablets, oral solutions and liothyronine available in the UK.

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

[StormsPass in reply to helvella]

Helvella thank you. Your thyroid medication document is incredible!! Thank you for sharing