We are currently excited to have long acting thyroid medications available with your doctor’s prescription.

Why use long acting thyroid medications

Brand name medications like Armour Thyroid and NP Thyroid are all immediate release medications. That means these brand name medications dissolve immediately and a person starts absorbing all the medication at once. This causes drug levels to go too high and too fast. This can result in heart palpitations and adrenal suppression causing temporary weakness. The solution to this problem is to slow down the the absorption rate. At Matthews Pharmacy, you can choose a slow release, and slower absorption version of your thyroid medication. This will reduce you chances of getting the common side effect of heart palpitations. And you can be sure that you are also absorbing the same amount of medication, just over a longer period of time.

Another benefit of our thyroid medications is that you can choose to have two hormones in one capsules. Most people are prescribed only levothyroxine, T4. However, based on your lab work, you may decide that adding liothyronine, T3, to your prescription would be beneficial. Most of our patients prefer having this T4, T3 combination. In many cases this second ingredient does make a significant improvement in afternoon energy levels. T3 also has the added advantage of lowering total cholesterol levels.

The cost for 3 months is generally from $60-$75. If you have any questions please call our pharmacist at (915) 598-5000