How should patients time the ingestion of their alendronate and levothyroxine given issues with food/drug interactions?

Topics: Endocrinology • Bone and Calcium Disorders • Thyroid Disorders

With the time intervals recommended after taking each medicine, I am wondering how patients should be counseled.

Answer from: at Community Practice

Since the half-life of levothyroxine is 7-10 days, you can double the dose of Levothyroxine on 1 day and then the next day take only the alendronate. There will not be a significant change in T4 levels.

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at First State Endocrinology Pa
Agree with Dr. @Lee. Another option is to give lev...

at Bellevue Endocrine Consultants Llc
Another option is to take levothyroxine at bedtime...

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