#219: What’s Not to Love About Levothyroxine?

Has learning pharmacology ever made you want to throw your pharm flashcards or your reference drug guide across the room? Instead of trying to memorize every single possible thing you can about a drug, start by focusing on the most important things that affect your nursing judgem ...  Show more

Hit play to tackle a concept that helps explain a whole lot of things in nursing, from edema and ascites to pleural effusions and pulmonary edema. You guessed it - it's fluid shifts. ___________________ ⁠Nursing School Survival Blueprint⁠ - Feeling overwhelmed or unsure how to ap ...  Show more

In this episode, I talk about levothyroxine pharmacology and how it is one of the most commonly prescribed medications. Levothyroxine gets converted from T4 to T3 in the body. I also talk about some of the side effects that are encountered if we oversupplement as well as what we ...  Show more

This podcast reviews the pharmacology class Thyroid Replacement Hormones. It focuses on the medication levothyroxine. 

On this episode of the Real Life Pharmacology podcast, I cover methimazole adverse effects, mechanism of action, drug interactions, and much more! Methimazole and propylthiouracil are from the same class of medications and are used for hyperthyroidism. I go over some of the diffe ...  Show more