SYNTHROID carries a boxed warning against use for obesity or weight loss. Excess thyroid-hormone exposure can produce serious or life-threatening toxicity, particularly with sympathomimetic agents.[1]
- This warning does not mean appropriate thyroid replacement is equivalent to excessive exposure.
Inspection history
Clinical review: not reviewed by a qualified clinician.
· Independent source inspection; applicability narrowed and inherited assertions excluded where unsupported. No qualified clinical review.
· Independently reopened the current DailyMed label (SPL version 1537, Effective Time 2024-02-20, confirmed the latest of 24 indexed versions). Confirmed the boxed warning verbatim (identical wording to CYTOMEL's, substituting SYNTHROID) and section 7.7 (Sympathomimetics). Same section 5.1-versus-5 precision note as the CYTOMEL claim. No qualified clinical review.