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What the Exenatide label says about other medicines.

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Each note below restates a numbered section of the approved FDA label for Exenatide, with the section named so you can check it at the source. Nothing here is our own advice, ranked, or scored.

Other oral medications

Drug Interactions 7

The label states exenatide may affect the absorption of orally administered medicines.

Insulin and insulin secretagogues

Drug Interactions 7

The label reports the risk of hypoglycemia is increased when exenatide is used with an insulin secretagogue such as a sulfonylurea, or with insulin, and says to consider reducing the dose of those when starting.

Warfarin

Drug Interactions 7

The label carries postmarketing reports of increased INR, sometimes with bleeding, in people also taking warfarin, and says to monitor INR frequently until stable when exenatide is started or changed.

/ What this is not

This page is a transcription, not an interaction checker. It cannot see what else you take, it does not rank anything by severity, and a topic that does not appear here simply was not in the sections transcribed. That is not a statement that a combination is safe. Bring these questions to the clinician who has your full medication list.