Liothyronine in Portugal

[k8sykes1977]

I’m moving to Portugal in 2 weeks and feeling overwhelmed with how to access regular blood tests and find a compounding pharmacy to make up my liquid T3 meds and some other meds that are prescribed by my consultant.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Also would a Portuguese pharmacy process a prescription from a consultant in the uk? Thanks for any help

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

T3 is pretty much not available in Portugal. If ever it is required, it has to be specially imported.

UK prescriptions are not valid in EU countries - brexit resulted in mutual recognition of qualifications ending. It is not impossible that a UK doctor has EU prescribing rights - just unlikely.

[k8sykes1977 in reply to helvella]

This is terrible news 😢

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to k8sykes1977]

I agree. Very bad news.

There have been quite a few posts about this over the years. This is a search which finds some of them:

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

My medicines document (world one) has some information about what was available many years ago - but no longer. It needs a full update but the bit about Portugal is as up to date as I know.

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. There is now a specific desiccated thyroid document.

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 Matrixes for levothyroxine tablets, oral solutions and also liothyronine available in the UK. Latest updates include all declared ingredients for all UK products.

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

[Fifteen in reply to helvella]

My endocrinologist who is based in Wimbledon and Kingston-on-Thames, is registered in the UK and in France. I am able to get my T3 from Germany as he can write EU prescriptions.

[bikebabe]

maybe need to come home on quarterly basis to get your T3 meds if you can’t get thrn at all in Portugal. I woukk looks be interested to know how Portuguese poor converters cope.

[StitchFairy in reply to bikebabe]

Can you still continue to be under the care of a UK doctor for prescribing if you live in Portugal? I wouldn't have thought so. Especially not since brexit.