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Do you recommend repeat TSH testing after a patient switches from brand-name to generic levothyroxine?

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Endocrinology · Emory University School of Medicine

Yes. Because the FDA allows for variability in generics and the fact that some patients are very sensitive to small changes in their levothyroxine dose, I do repeat TSH after a patient switches levothyroxine formulations.

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