In an attempt to clear up widespread confusion:
★ Mercury Pharma is a company/brand owned by Advanz Pharma.
★ Mercury Pharma have two product lines - Mercury Pharma levothyroxine and Mercury Pharma Eltroxin.
★ These products are absolutely 100% identical - only the packaging is slightly different.
Sometimes prescribers and pharmacists do not appreciate all of this.
Also, it appears that the company might only be producing Eltroxin at present.
● If they look up Mercury Pharma but it is listed under Advanz Pharma on their system, they might miss it.
● If they look up Advanz Pharma but it is listed under Mercury Pharma on their system, they might miss it.
● If they look up Eltroxin but it is currently only available as levothyroxine, they might miss it.
● If they look up levothyroxine but it is currently only available as Eltroxin, they might miss it.
In other words, a bit of a mess from our point of view.
However, if you explain this, they might find they do actually have what you want, or can get hold of it.
(The brand name Eltroxin is for the UK only. Elsewhere in the world, it is a completely different product owned by a different company.)
More details about thyroid hormone medicines available on this blog:
https://helvella.blogspot.com/p/helvella-thyroid-hormone-medicines.html
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