Armour

[Margaret]

Does anybody get their Armour on the NHS?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

Yes.

You can go off the the Department of Health and download statistics of all prescriptions for previous years.

Or you can look at one of my previous blogs on this site which tells you exactly that.

Rod

[Yarby]

I have been getting Armour on prescription from my GP for 10 years now. It needs to be a hand written prescription, and I also need a letter from my GP to the supplier (via the chemist) to say why I need it and that the GP has approved it. I initially gave my chemist some info on Armour as they were sceptical.

My GP had said she would prescribe it IF I could find a chemist to stock it. The chemist agreed and has been wonderful about getting it for me. Since it worked, I've continued on it all these years, no questions. My GP followed the advice on a private thyroid specialist.

Hope you have some success too!

[thyriodpest in reply to Yarby]

I live in Italy and can't get Armour as a prescription drug! It only cost €11 for a box with 50 tablets. The only amount I can buy is 75mgs. and have to take one in the morning and one in the afternoon..these tablets can't be divided....what amount of armour do you have in G.B. ?

Since taking this type of drug I'm much more awake and seem to have less symptoms,with the Thyroxine I was ill...but told this was all that could be given for my problems...thanks to Janie an American nurse who has wrote the book 'THYROID MADNESS' I started to learn about Armour, she also suggested to become part of this group....so happy to be part of it now and have learnt so much. The only thing that I find very 'hurtful' for all thyroid patients is the lack of help from Doctors....I was upset about all the extra weight and one Doctor to answer my question on this said :

"You must stop eating popcorn when you watch the t.v. at night"As if it was my fault...I told him I have never eaten popcorn and that his remarks were of no help to me.

Bye bye until the next time.

[Everdean in reply to thyriodpest]

Please would you tell me the name of Armour in Italian so that I could ask my friend to get me some as she is visiting me next week.

Also when you say they are 75mgs, Is it easy to split them as I need 100mgs?

Thank you

[Muffy]

Yes, my daughter does and she sends off her prescription to either Mountford Pharmacy, 11 East Barnet Road, Barnet, EN4 8RR or Springfield Pharmacy in Richomond. The prescription is printed out in the normal way by the GP.

[LouiseRoberts in reply to Muffy]

Hi All

There is more info on this here:

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/pages/...

and here:

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/pages/...

Also Lyn Mynott - Thyroid UK Chief Exec/Chair gets her Armour through the NHS.

Louise

xxx

[Aurealis in reply to LouiseRoberts]

Hi Louise, the links no longer work - is Armour available on NHS, and if so how please?

[LouiseRoberts in reply to Aurealis]

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/treatm...

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/treatm...

It CAN be prescribed - please see above links.

xx

[Aurealis in reply to LouiseRoberts]

Thank you Louise. It isn't clear from the pages you reference whether they refer to NHS prescriptions. My GP is willing to prescribe on a private prescription but believes that he can't prescribe on NHS. How do argue against this?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Aurealis]

See here:

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

Shows NHS prescriptions from early 2014.

[Aurealis in reply to helvella]

Thank you

[LouiseRoberts in reply to Aurealis]

They are NHS prescriptions.

[Aurealis in reply to LouiseRoberts]

Thank you Louise

[Margaret]

Is it possible to tell me how many grains I would need if I was to go back on Armour at the moment I am taking 125mcg of Levothyroxine and 25 mcg of Cynomel which doesn't seem to suit me.