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Patient Information Sheet

Exenatide (marketed as Byetta)

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This is a summary of the most important information

about Byetta. For details, talk to your health care

professional.

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What is Byetta?

Byetta is an injectable medicine used to improve blood

sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes. Byetta

is used with metformin or another type of antidiabetic

medicine called sulfonylureas. It may also be used

with a combination of metformin and a sulfonylurea.

There are many antidiabetic medicines that contain a

sulfonylurea. Ask your healthcare professional or

pharmacist if you are not sure if your antidiabetic

medicine contains a sulfonylurea.

Byetta is not a substitute for insulin in patients

whose diabetes requires insulin treatment.

Byetta has not been studied in children.

Who Should Not Use Byetta?

Do not use Byetta if you are allergic to exenatide or

any of the other ingredients in Byetta.

What are The Risks?

Byetta can cause low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) when

used with a medicine that contains a sulfonylurea. The

dose of your sulfonylurea medicine may need to be

reduced while you use Byetta. The signs and symptoms

of low blood sugar may include headache, drowsiness,

weakness, dizziness, confusion, irritability, hunger,

fast heartbeat, sweating, and feeling jittery. Your

healthcare professional should tell you how to treat

low blood sugar.

The most common side effects include nausea, vomiting,

diarrhea, dizziness, headache, feeling jittery, and

acid stomach. Nausea is most common when first

starting Byetta, but decreases over time in most

patients.

What Should I Tell My Health Care Professional?

Before you start using Byetta, tell your health care

professional if you:

have severe problems with your stomach (gastroparesis)

or food digestion.

have severe kidney disease or you are on dialysis.

are pregnant or planning to become pregnant.

are breastfeeding.

Are There Any Interactions With Drugs or Foods?

Byetta can interact with other medicines. Know the

medicines you take including prescription and

non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal

supplements. Keep a list of them to show your

healthcare professional and pharmacist.

Byetta slows stomach emptying and can affect medicines

that need to pass through the stomach quickly. Ask

your healthcare professional if the time at which you

take any of your oral medicines (for example, birth

control pills, antibiotics) should be changed.

How Do I Use Byetta?

See the Pen User Manual for instructions for using the

Byetta Pen and injecting Byetta.

Byetta comes in a prefilled pen. Each pen has 60 doses

to provide 30 days of twice–a–day injections. You must

do a “New Pen Set-Up” (see User Manual) one time only,

when starting a new prefilled Byetta Pen. If you do

this “New Pen Set-Up” before each injection, you will

run out of medicine before 30 days.

Use Byetta exactly as prescribed by your healthcare

professional. Your dose may be increased after using

Byetta for 30 days. Do not change your dose unless

your healthcare professional has told you to change

your dose. Your healthcare professional must teach you

how to inject Byetta before you use it for the first

time.

Pen needles are not included. Ask your healthcare

professional which needle length and gauge is best for

you.

Inject your dose of Byetta under the skin

(subcutaneous injection) of your upper leg (thigh),

stomach area (abdomen), or upper arm.

Byetta is injected, twice a day, at any time within

the 60 minutes (1 hour) before your morning and

evening meals. Do not take Byetta after your meal.

If you miss a dose of Byetta, skip that dose and take

your next dose at the next prescribed time. Do not

take an extra dose or increase the amount of your next

dose to make up for the one you missed.

If you use too much Byetta, call your healthcare

professional or poison control center right away. You

may need medical treatment right away. Too much Byetta

can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness, or symptoms of

low blood sugar.

Byetta FDA Approved 04/2005

Patient Information Sheet Revised 05/2005

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