Armour Thyroid's New Packaging: Is This Why There Are Backlogs and Delays?
The price has also gone up. Says Cathy: "It looks like the new packaging costs more. The same prescription that cost me $22 last month cost me $38 today." Cathy said she's not complaining about the costs: "Armour has saved my life - I'll pay whatever I have to - but I figure the new packaging is something the FDA has made Forest do and of course, it increases the price."
Cathy may be onto something. Given that the folks at Forest are so close-mouthed about why they've pulled all the larger dosage pills off the market right now, I have to wonder if they're not eventually moving toward blister-pack packaging for most of the Armour dosages? It's a mystery, though, as the FDA found just last year that, at least for levothyroxine, pills in blister packs actually degraded more quickly. Honestly, I wish I could get a straight answer out of the people at Forest Labs. Sometimes, you just get the feeling that these thyroid drug companies are happy to take our money, but how dare we actually want to know anything about what's going on with the drugs we take...
Here's a photo Cathy shared with us of the Armour Thyroid in the blister packaging.
Photo courtesy Cathy P.
Comments
My pharmacy has given me westhroid for the last several months. So far, I’ve not noticed a change in how I feel. I will be going in for my annual exam soon and am hoping that since I can’t seem to get Armour here that the generic version will work.
As a two year consumer of Armour, I am still looking into alternative medication. I do not wish to endure another moment like last week.
I worked manufacturing for over two decades and know that any company who allows their product to not meet consumer demand because of a production change is not on the ball.
That packaging change could have went unnoticed by the consumer if the company did their projections/planning correctly. Sorry there is no forgiveness towards a seasoned company for this action/behavior.
My doctor and pharmacy are on my team so anything I wish to do from here on, is entirely my choice.
So Forest can kiss my grits… *ROFLOL*
My thyroid med is compounded from a compounding pharmacy…still regular co-pay…time-released, no dye added…
A year or so ago I was given my Armour in the blister packs. I hate them! They are hard for these old, arthritic hands to open and awkward to store and/or carry when travelling.
I’ve had other things in blister packs that were much easier to open.
I certainly hope that this is not going to be the norm from now on.
Who cares how they are packaged. THIS STUFF WORKS!!! I use scissors to get mine out of the blister pack.
if the pills don’t last in the blister pack, take em out and put in reg bottles when you get em.
That might just be a mis-order on the pharmacy’s side. The blister packs are usually ordered by hopsital pharmacies to that individual does can be given to patients who are in the hospital for a few days. Sometimes retail pharmacies misorder the blister packs, and if that’s all they have in your dose, you may get blister packaged pills.