levothyroxine at christmas tip

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just been advised by my gp to cut out the sprouts this christmas as apparently they inhibit the absorption of thyroxine.
great news for me as i hate the little green bullets!
managed to get 2 months supply as well, why do they insist on only allowing one month at a time, such a pain.

My gp always prescribes two months worth - i thought it was standard.

NHS guidance is that all medication should be supplied in 28 day supplies. Some surgeries double up at this time of year if the next prescription would be due around the holidays

Oh no, I love sprouts!

I always get 3 months at a time

Good advice about the sprouts though. Useful

Whoopee!

Even now at the grand old age of 35, my Dad insists that I have 3 sprouts at Christmas - I now have the perfect excuse to not have any

Strange, I always get 8 weeks worth at a time. It would be better if they prescribed more that that at a time.

sprouts are part of the goitercentric(spelling!) foods and also include swede(no loss)and dam it peanuts!
learn something new everday on google.

Nooooooo! I'm vegetarian and sprouts are one of my favourite bits of the dinner I'm still able to eat - as long as they're cooked right, that is; fair enough if they're just boiled to death they are little green parcels of evil. Sod it, I'm going to eat them anyway, surely it can't do any damage eating them one day, dear only knows how many times I've forgotten to take the stuff, which can't exactly help with absorption either, let's face it

oooooooooooh I like sprouts darn it!
I get 2 months at a time, I understand the whole paying for each prescription but as they are free because of the nature of the condition, I managed to wangle 2 months.

I think they don't much like giving you more at a time as they can be fairly dangerous drugs in the wrong hands and to make sure you don't overdose?

My local primary care trust has a policy of 2 months supply. Apparently as we are grown up, we can be trusted with that much.

I always get prescribed 100 tablets. It's very annoying as the tablet packs are 28 so I always have tiny bits of a pack.

Yay for no sprouts. MIL already has the sprouts cooking, so I could do with an excuse to leave them!

Sorry sprouts haters, Thyroid Society says they only have to be avoided in large quantities so probably Christmas Dinner amounts are okay - particularly if MILs do soggy ones as thorough cooking destroys the goitrogenic elements!

I think PeelThemetc post should be deleted by mumsnet you wicked girl!!