Phenobarbital and Thyroxine

Several types of health problems can cause seizures including diabetes, epilepsy, and tumors.
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izshadow
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Phenobarbital and Thyroxine

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My guy has been on Phenobarbital for some time now and it really is helping him. But it seems to have lowered his thyroid which I read could be common. My vet put him on 0.3mg twice a day and we will recheck in six months when we do our bi-annual bloodwork from the seizures/brain tumor. He also gets 45mg of Phenobarbital twice a day.

Anyways, my question is who else here is taking these two medications concurrently? My vet said the dose is low enough we should be fine. But of course I come home and look things up online and I see you can have issues if you take these two medications together. But we have to!!!

So I guess I just need comfort that other people who are on the Phenobarbital ended up having to also give them Thyroxine and have had no issues and no horrible side effects?

:thankyou:
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