Greek unipharma t3

[Caesarthyroid]

I just bought this t3 off a site and i want to know if its originalThe pills are bright yellow,ive seen others that look more pale white

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

Does the information on the blister packaging match the information on the end of the pack?

It is a sensible first step to checking a product.

Afraid few here get Unipharma these days since it seemed to disappear from the market - even in Greece. Hence the usual approaches (e.g. buying while on holiday) were no longer possible.

[Caesarthyroid in reply to helvella]

It doesBut i feel weird about the color since ive seen different ones

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[Caesarthyroid in reply to Caesarthyroid]

Heres the blister

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[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Caesarthyroid]

I very much understand. And I agree it looks darker yellow than I remember (from photos). No idea if the formulation has changed. Or it is within expected range of shades.

I hope someone can be more definitive.

[Caesarthyroid in reply to helvella]

For refference this is a picture of a blister i came across on the forum

Isnt 2030 expiry date too late on my packet?

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[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Caesarthyroid]

Agreed it seems a long time. More typically thyroid hormone medicines seem to have lives of 18 months to three years. But not impossible - maybe that is why they have changed colour? Some new approach which extends life.

Or fake!

[SueHG in reply to helvella]

I’ve been using Greek T3 up to 3 years old and they don’t change colour.

[OzMan in reply to Caesarthyroid]

Never known such a long sell by date. I think unfortunately they are likely to be fakes

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[StitchFairy]

They don't look right to me. Far too yellow. I have some with 2025 expiry and they are pale.

pale pills

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to StitchFairy]

Are there any markings on the tablets themselves?

Can you measure the diameter (and thickness!)?

[Caesarthyroid in reply to StitchFairy]

Also what the price mentioned on the box?Mine says 2.30€

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to StitchFairy]

What does it have printed at each end of the pack?

From what I can see, the blister that Caesarthyroid has appears blank at one end. Difficult to be certain.

Also, on your photo, the fine channels that run along the blister have a sort of pattern of straight and angled "breaks" or interruptions whereas the suspect blister looks entirely smooth.

I'm well aware that we can "see" things that aren't actually there and convince ourselves - am I doing that? But embedding codes onto the long channels seems an entirely feasible way of adding a security feature!

[Caesarthyroid in reply to helvella]

Is it indeed true the line on the blister is a smooth n long bubble of air

[StitchFairy in reply to helvella]

packet

uniP

[StitchFairy in reply to StitchFairy]

packet2

uniP

[StitchFairy in reply to StitchFairy]

blister

uniP

[StitchFairy in reply to StitchFairy]

blister2

uniP

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to StitchFairy]

Ah! Coloured print on the foil is being used as a security feature in the pharmaceutical industry. For many years, almost all were black only. But colour, and especially multicolour, makes faking more difficult.

They also sometimes use an ink which is thick enough to feel. Or print on both sides of the foil (that seems to be a recent development).

And also things like ultraviolet ink that cannot be seen except under a UV light.

[StitchFairy in reply to helvella]

I can't feel the print on the blister and it looks to be all one colour.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to StitchFairy]

Shows the Braille markings very clearly - thank you. (Picking up a point made earlier by BenLabrador )

[StitchFairy in reply to helvella]

Just added some pics. These came from a Greek pharmacy (not bought online).

[BenLabrador]

Does the packet have raised dots to help the visually impaired? My GP checked my Tiromel and was reassured that the packet had them.

[Regenallotment]

I did a Google image search with your photo and found a similar discussion on a steroids/weightlifting forum.

One of their observations was a misspelling of prescription on the box.

uk-muscle.co.uk/threads/uni...

[Caesarthyroid in reply to Regenallotment]

They had the old design packets 3x10 blisters

These are 2x15 with no spelling mistakes but a similarity is that bright yellow pill color

[Sat2]

does the patient information leaflet look/read correct.

[Caesarthyroid in reply to Sat2]

All of it is in greek

[Mlinde in reply to Caesarthyroid]

get it translated?

[Ukie in reply to Caesarthyroid]

Download Google Lens, it has a translate function. You just point the camera at the Greek and it will translate most of the words (it’s not perfect, but it may help) 🙂

[OzMan]

I have bought these while on holiday in Greece and they were a paler colour.

[RedApple Administrator]

Caesarthyroid, I have been informed that they are definitely fake, but am waiting for more info to confirm that.

In the meantime, it would be really helpful if you would message an admin with info about where you purchased these so that we can warn others.

[Caesarthyroid in reply to RedApple]

The site i bought it from is romanian and they only do deliveries inside country

[Mlinde]

Yes, how the hell do you know if they're not fake?! It's why I've never bought T3 over the Web, there's no way of knowing unless of course, you take them and see what happens... good luck with that.

I would have though the best indicator is how much you pay for them, the cheaper they are than the real thing, the more likely they'll be fake.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Mlinde]

However the price of genuine T3 in pharmacies in Greece (when available) was very low. So low, in fact, that it might have been cheaper for online sellers to provide the real thing than bother producing fakes. (Somewhere between one and three euros.)

[Mlinde in reply to helvella]

Is that still the case?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Mlinde]

On the basis that no-one seems able to buy it at the moment, no. That is why I referred to the past and hoped that anyone with up-to-date prices would jump in and tell us.

[Mlinde in reply to helvella]

so the odds are that it's fake, hmmm.... a real dilemma

[Tina_Maria]

The normal shelf-life of liothyronine tablets are 18 to 24 months. The reason for that is that the manufacturer can guarantee the full potency and the safety of the medicine until that date. Even though it may be safe to take a medicine after it has expired for say 6 months to a year, you may not get the full benefit of any medicine, as the potency can slowly degrade.

If your tablets were produced this year, they should really have an expiry date of 2026, but 2030 is definitely too far out to guarantee the potency of the tablets. In addition, it does seem strange that the tablets are bright yellow, where as other batches have a different colour. I fear that this might not be a genuine product.