Generic name: exenatide (Byetta) [ ex-EN-a-tide ]
Brand name: Byetta Prefilled Pen
Dosage form: subcutaneous solution (10 mcg/0.04 mL; 5 mcg/0.02 mL)
Drug class:Incretin mimetics
What is Byetta?
This medication guide provides information about the Byetta brand of exenatide. Bydureon is another brand of exenatide that is not covered in this medication guide.
Exenatide is an injectable diabetes medicine that helps control blood sugar levels. This medication helps your pancreas produce insulin more efficiently. Byetta is a short-acting form of exenatide.
Byetta is used together with diet and exercise to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes. Byetta is not for treating type 1 diabetes.
Byetta may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
Warnings
You should not use this medicine if you have severe kidney disease (or you are on dialysis), or if you have slowed digestion or diabetic ketoacidosis.
You should not use this medicine if exenatide has ever caused you to have low platelet levels in your blood.
Stop using this medicine and call your doctor at once if you have nausea and vomiting with severe pain in your upper stomach spreading to your back.
Before taking this medicine
You should not use this medicine if you are allergic to exenatide (Bydureon or B...
