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What is exenatide?

Exenatide is an add-on therapy for patients with Type 2 diabetes that are not adequately controlled with oral hypoglycemic medications. It is a Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) Receptor Agonist. It is available as Byetta (injected twice-daily) and Bydureon (once-weekly).

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Diabetes Type 2 23 5 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 6 1 Efficacy_moderate
Weight loss 3 1 Efficacy_moderate
Weight gain 1 0
General health 1 0
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 1 0

See all 42 patients currently taking exenatide

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 1
None
 5

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking exenatide. See all 11 dosages ►

  10 daily 20 daily 10 mcg/0.04 mL daily 5 mcg/0.02 mL daily 2 x 5 mcg/0.02 mL daily 2 x 10 mcg/0.04 mL daily 4 x 10 mcg/0.04 mL daily 5 x 5 mcg/0.02 mL daily 10 x 5 mcg/0.02 mL daily 20 x 10 mcg/0.04 mL daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 3 Number of Patients: 3 9 Number of Patients: 9 20 Number of Patients: 20 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking exenatide (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 2   Doctor's advice: 40%
Other 2   Other: 40%
Personal research 1   Personal research: 20%

See all 5 patients who’ve stopped taking exenatide

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking exenatide

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Stopped Taking exenatide

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of exenatide

Always
 4 67%
Usually
 2 33%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of exenatide

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 3 50%
A little
 2 33%
Not at all
 1 17%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of exenatide

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 33%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 2 67%

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Report created on May 26, 2012.