RE: Re: Value Pharmaceuticals Regulation Change

[Guest guest]

Nope - they avoided that like the plague. Such a shame. I know

of nowhere else that you can get Erfa without a prescription, or any other

reputable pharmacy that is selling it, which makes me think this is Erfa's policy.

Luv - Sheila

Have they ever spelt out what the regulation

change *is*? Announced by whom? It's rather odd that this is the only company

so far to mention it.

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Helen, see the attached. There is a long letter from the MHRA

from way back in 2004 who wrote to me setting out the details about doctors

being able to prescribe natural thyroid extract (Armour thyroid) if their

patients did not recover their health on levothyroxine-only medication. There

are also emails saying more or less the same about Erfa Thyroid, Nature Throid

and Westhroid. These are the letters members should copy and print out to show

their doctors who tell you they are not allowed to prescribe unlicensed

medicines. They ARE - and they DO - a growing number of them.

Luv - Sheila

Hi . I wouldn't worry, from the

conversation I had with the chap at the MHRA, there is no legal impediment to

privately importing thyroid medication. I didn't mention V.P. by name, anyway.

But it seems that there is no legal grey area here - UK law is not being

flouted. I would like to know if NDT is classed at POM (prescription only

medicine), P (available from pharmacists only) or GSL (General Sales List),

haven't been able to find that one out yet.

Anyway, see my new post - the 'new regulations' are only at the compounding

pharmacy that provides Erfa to V.P, nothing to do with UK regulations.

x Helen

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[Guest guest]

Hi Helen, I have attached a copy of a letter I sent out to all

doctors after the British Thyroid Association put out the very misleading (and

in parts incorrect) information in their Statement which they published on

their web site. This might answer some of your questions. This was part of the

information I gave to my endocrinologist when he told me he would not recommend

Armour for me because it had potency problems in the past, and that the T4 and

T3 was not standardised. After he received the information and read through it

all, he then changed his mind and recommended Armour for me which my GP was

then happy to prescribe.

Luv - Sheila

Thanks Sheila, have just downloaded those. I'd still be

curious to find out how NDT is categorised in the PMO/P/GSL system, just out of

curiosity. Useful to have these facts at hand when the doctor spouts rubbish...

It would also be nice to know of some other commonly used but unlicensed

medications. (Calamine lotion? Kaolin and morphine? I have no idea...) So that

when a doctor uses 'not licensed' as an excuse, I can say 'well neither are X,

Y, and Z'...

x Helen

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> Helen, see the attached. There is a long letter from the MHRA from way

back

> in 2004 who wrote to me setting out the details about doctors being able

to

> prescribe natural thyroid extract (Armour thyroid)

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