Where do you buy your Synthroid (those who are Hypo-Thyroid)

Re: Where do you buy your Synthroid (those who are Hypo-Thyroid)

• bandwife928 member

  June 2010

  Are you paying extra for the name brand?  I use the generic (levothyroxine) and it's $5 with my copay....or $4 if I pay cash...

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• mylena

  June 2010

  I get levoxithrin as well @ Target for $4.00 a month.
  

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• hyr.

  June 2010

  I pay $15 for actual Synthroid at Kroger Pharmacy.  My endo specifically told me never to use the generic.  She said that the generic isn't as regulated and you can have slightly different concentrations each time you refill.  For people that are hypothyroid, with hypothyroid symptoms and TTC you need to keep your dose as stable as possible. 

  https://thyroid.about.com/od/thyroiddrugstreatments/a/oct2006.htm

  " Patients who take generic levothryoxine can, with each prescription refill, receive product from any one of the various manufactures of generic levothyroxine.  Since generic levothyroxine does not have consistant potency from one manufacturer to the next, this introduces the possibility that with each new refill of medication, you will get a batch from a different manufacturer... one that is too potent, or not potent enough" 

  
  

   

   

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• SushiNoMore

  June 2010

  hyr.:

  I pay $15 for actual Synthroid at Kroger Pharmacy.  My endo specifically told me never to use the generic.  She said that the generic isn't as regulated and you can have slightly different concentrations each time you refill.  For people that are hypothyroid, with hypothyroid symptoms and TTC you need to keep your dose as stable as possible. 

  
  

  This.  I've had problems in the past with the generic medicine, so I only take the name brand.

  My insurance mandates that I get 90 day supplies delivered by mail.  It's $17 for a 90 day supply if I do it that way. 

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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