Comments on: Are online Canadian Pharmacies cutting it with US thyroid patients on desiccated thyroid?

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:15:28 +0000

I used Universal Drug and had a horrible experience. I e-mailed them my script 2 weeks ago and they still haven’t been able to get anything right. And what is up when they ask if I want it from New Zealand? They constantly put me on hold, one time they came back to see if I was still on hold than put me on hold again. They said my card was declined 2xs. So I called my flexcare people and they said the pharmacy hadn’t even tried to put it thru. They said there was no dosage listed on the script and there was. I will never use them, I had my script sent back to Smart Choice, the place I used the first time for my script. I only tried Universal as it was listed here as a good pharmacy. Grrr…. I am now out of my Erfa and will be out for about 7 days till Smart Choice can get them to me. I would have had them if Universal knew what they were doing.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:57:19 +0000

I am in Ontario Canada and get my script for desicated Thyroid from Erfa @ Shoppers Drug Mart. I don’t understand why people are going online for it.

However, I am having a problem finding someone who actually knows how to perscribe it properly. I reluctantly switched to Eltroxin….not staying on that crap! Blurry vision, tired etc. I am currently on nothing trying to find my way through this fog. I have the Thyroid, just don’t know how to dose properly.

(From Janie: Because many of us who use and appreciate Erfa do not live in Canada)

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:56:01 +0000

Switched to erfa last year, needed about 25% higher dosage than previous brand. Got 100 180 mg tabs then, now cutting into 3 parts, 100 doses cost 10 cents apiece. Now looking for comparable savings–greed appears to have taken over. Jan pharmacy seems the closest reasonable alternative.

By: Andrew Poretz

Andrew Poretz — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:02:46 +0000

Okay, great customer service experience I wanted to share. In December I ordered Erfa Thyroid from Canadadrugs.com, which I learned about from this page. Today they actually called me to ask if I was ready to get a refill! I said I still have nearly two months’ supply left so wasn’t ready to re-order, and this nice woman with a wonderful French-Canadian accent offered a 10% discount and will not process/charge the order for a month, and told me they now have free shipping, and also offered to call my doctor after that refill, since I only had one. So I’m pretty impressed. Definitely beats the robo calls from Duane Reade for my other meds, and the monthly e-mail refill reminders from drugstore.com (which has been out of Armour for months, so what’s the point?)!

By: Marla

Marla — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:49:38 +0000

I ordered through Northwestpharmacy.com. They sent me 200, 60 mg, Erfa ‘thyroid’ pills. I’m on 120 mg a day. It ran $56.49 plus $9.99 shipping, $66.48 total. They are sweet and I can take them sublingually. The order took about 2 weeks from start to finish. I have 3 refills, so hopefully that process will be even easier.

By: carolyn hunter

carolyn hunter — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:47:20 +0000

I got worse and worse on the reformulated Armour, but did NOT know WHY I was getting worse, …since I had NO knowledge of the re-formulation…..but my body did.

when my regular mail order pharmacy sent me a letter telling me they could no longer get Armour, I went on an internet search… and gradually stumbled on the
http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com web pages, where I got a huge education on WHAT was going on, and HOW I could get a replacement for natural dessicted thyroid. And WHETHER I was taking the correct doses and frequencies,…. based on my pulse and temperatures throughout the day.

I discovered based on my weakness, exhaustion, and inability to DO anything, I was so deficient that I was actually near death at that point.

As a result, I had to RAISE up my thyroid AND cortisone to an unusually large amount. (My body temperature was sinking and staying so low, and fluxuating wildly, up and down, I was freezing, and way below “normal”. )

After experimentation, over several weeks, I ended up with a DAILY DOSE of aprox. 40 mg of hydrocortisone (oral) DAILY, and 315 mg of natural dessicated thyroid (Erfa) DAILY to cause the desired changes, and FINALLY stabilize my temperature.

I am, for the first time in my recollected life, usually in the 98.0 or higher, after a morning start of 97.1.

I also had to divide the doses into four doses, whereas previously I was taking a smaller daily amount,….and only two times a day.

Erfa has done well for me, and I keep track of my temperatures several times a day,….so I will know WHEN, IF, and/or WHETHER ….I need to lower any of my doses.

By: Connie

Connie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:26:57 +0000

I switched to ERFA at universal drugs store, I feel fabulous again after the armor reformulation left me felling bad, the price is good and their service is fabulous, thanks so much for letting us all know where to go !!!

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:54:31 +0000

I ordered from Universal Drugstore, and have no complaints about the pharmacy, BUT the Canadian thyroid product was NOTHING LIKE Armour – it was worse than taking nothing at all, or like taking Synthroid ! YUK !!!!!!!!!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:59:44 +0000

Thank you, Janie, I did post to natural thyroid group.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:50:15 +0000

I had been on the original formulation of Armour and noticed a decline in my health after the reformulation. I went to Naturethroid but since it’s not available anymore, am left with my doctor pushing me towards compounded. I’ve had compounded before, and it was helpful, but nothing like the old Armour. I came here to see what my options were for a ‘generic’ and with my script for Armour in hand, I called Universal. Since my script is for Armour 120mg, I can’t fill it for Erfa, through Universal, until my doctor sends a new script for Armour 125mg. I haven’t read of the dosage differences between Armour and Erfa and when I called Universal last week, they told me if I had a script for Armour then I would have no problems getting Erfa filled with it. Well, Armour doesn’t come in 125mg so she won’t write it for that dosage. She won’t write for dessicated thyroid or Erfa, either; dessicated is too vague and she’s not heard of Erfa. So, what do I do? Any suggestions?

From Janie: either you really need a new doc to do what’s right for you, or convince her to write it in grains, as Universal should take that, no matter the mgs. difference! Also try getting feedback in patient groups: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/talk-to-others