I'm currently updating my liothyronine document information.
And I want to know whether anyone is aware of any makes of liothyronine I have missed!
Some of the products which are very dubious and might be re-labelled/re-branded in questionable circumstances, I'm intentionally avoiding. But I want ALL real liothyronine medicines.
I'll add a reply with an image of what I've got so far.
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I am VERY interested in this subject ....it is possible that ROMA capsules are dodgy/ anxiety causing , I'd like to know what others find . Anxiety as a side effect( see my previous post)
If you have issues with them, please consider following the instructions in the Patient Information Leaflet for removing the contents from the capsules. This helps to separate out whether the issue is with the capsule shell or the contents.
If you have more than one pack, consider putting in a Yellow Card for each pack. After all, you cannot know if the issue is with the general formulation or specific batches or packs.
Some of you might be wondering why I have posted this question. After all, aren’t there lots of ways of finding this out - search engines through so-called artificial intelligence? And I have to agree, there are ways. But they fail.
With search engines, it is next to impossible to make sure you only retrieve information about liothyronine without getting even more hits which are nothing to do with liothyronine. Some might include the word “liothyronine” - which often happens in technical documents or patient chatter.
Therefore, we tend to end up with hundreds of hits most of which are not helpful.
Search engines also have problems across languages. Liothyronine is simple enough. Except it is different in non-English languages.
liotironina (Italian, Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish)
Liothyronin (German)
liotyronina (Polish)
liotyronin (Swedish)
лиотиронин liotironin (Russian)
And, of course, the use of the scientific chemical name, triiodothyronine (and variations) also gets missed.
Many of these are missed.
And some people seem to prefer using the brand names (typically Cytomel or Cynomel and variations) which also tend to be missed by search engines.
Therefore we try turning to AI. Seemingly the answer to everything.
And find:
Many of the products I found are missed - even some very obvious ones.
Some products are included when they are actually levothyroxine. And it seems totally set on including combination products (levothyroxine and liothyronine) even if you try to exclude them.
Product names which have never been available are included. As are products which disappeared ten or more years ago.
It steadfastly refuses to list brand names of products supplied as generic liothyronine.
In other words:
The most comprehensive list was achieved from my notes plus my own memory.
Search engines are never-failingly tedious and awkward.
AI does worse than both me and search engines.
I have failed to identify an answer to my original question.
Other than what I have already discussed, the single most helpful resource has been official medicine agencies in individual countries. USA, UK, Ireland, France and Spain are all good. But some countries seem incomplete, or are very difficult for non-native language speakers to use - even with translating browsers.
Why am I adding this?
Simply to act as a warning about what AI returns. Lots of its claimed answers are junk. Even for something as simple as getting a list of product names. Let alone if you try to get it to do something more sophisticated.
Though it might be able to help a bit, it can get things incredibly wrong.
Be VERY careful about using AI for anything important.
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