Thyroforon vs soloxine??

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Catriona MacIntyre — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:15:29 GMT

Ditto with us. The are now well maintained on the lower dose of Thyfyron. Well in themselves, and with thyroxine levels within "normal" limits

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Thomas Johnson — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:37:16 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"]

[quote user="Catriona MacIntyre"]

We had one or two who seemed to need a lower dose of Thyfyron than they did Soloxine

[/quote]Is that 'needed' or 'had to have' a lower dose because they were in danger of becoming hyperthyroid?

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We had 2 dogs that had T4 in the recommended range for hypothyroid dogs on therapy when they were on Soloxine, but when blood tested on Thyforon were above this range.

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Martin Atkinson — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:15:14 GMT

[quote user="Catriona MacIntyre"]

We had one or two who seemed to need a lower dose of Thyfyron than they did Soloxine

[/quote]Is that 'needed' or 'had to have' a lower dose because they were in danger of becoming hyperthyroid?

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Thomas Johnson — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:08:16 GMT

[quote user="Catriona MacIntyre"]

We had one or two who seemed to need a lower dose of Thyfyron than they did Soloxine

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We've found this as well, and when I spoke to our Dechra rep she said they've had quite a lot of vets reporting it as well.

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Catriona MacIntyre — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:19:19 GMT

We had one or two who seemed to need a lower dose of Thyfyron than they did Soloxine

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Martin Atkinson — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:32:32 GMT

[quote user="Joyce Whitehead"]And some who were on Leventa who were changed as that was temporarily on short supply and they don't want to change back. [/quote]I had the opposite, I only have one hypothyroid dog at the moment (strangely have more hypothyroid cats)! The owners did nothing but moan about having to use the liquid, but they moan about everything anyway especially the cost.

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Stephanie Wellings — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:27:52 GMT

We changed over - the main difference is that most of our dogs were on SID dosing with soloxine, and the data sheet for thyforon says BID. However the rep said if they are stable, just to use an SID dose of thyforon (at equivalent dose to the soloxine they were on), and I haven't had to adjust any of my patients' doses (most have T4 monitored) since switching drugs.

Also, it comes in blister packs so no more counting ninety soloxines - joy!

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Joyce Whitehead — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:35:53 GMT

We have a couple of clients who think it's better! And some who were on Leventa who were changed as that was temporarily on short supply and they don't want to change back.

RE: Thyroforon vs soloxine??

Anthony Dennison — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:18:31 GMT

We've switched over to thyforon and had no issues.