At the very beginning of the Levothyrox affair, when many patients have started to complain unwanted side effects due to the drug’s new formula, actress Anny Duperey was the first “celebrity” to make her voice heard. She then challenged the Minister of Health, asking her in an open letter the abandonment of the new formula of Levothyrox.
This time, it is the actress Mylène Demongeot who claims to be a victim of the consequences of taking this drug against thyroid disorders, which she had been taking for 15 years without any problem when the formula was changed by the laboratory.
“My TSH climbed to 13.20”
“My TSH (the hormone that stimulates the thyroid) has always been balanced at a normal value (ie below 4.5 IU / L). And under new formula! 13.20 IU / L! Huge. I started to panic “ the actress told Le Parisien.
While learning about the drug, Mylène Demongeot then discovered that thousands of other women, like her, were suffering from the side effects of the new Levothyrox. “I then decided to get Euthyrox, the old version of Levo“.
Stressing that she is no longer old enough to fight, the actress announces that she will “support the fight” of the patients by filing a complaint against X for endangering the lives of others. “Not to have money. To know”, she concludes.
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