Insulin aspart User Reviews & Ratings (Page 2)

Brand names: Novolog, Fiasp, NovoLog FlexPen, NovoLog PenFill, ReliOn NovoLog

Insulin aspart has an average rating of 5.6 out of 10 from a total of 46 reviews on Drugs.com. 36% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 38% reported a negative experience.

Reviews for Insulin aspart

Jjok
Taken for 6 months to 1 year
October 15, 2018

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "The insulin works but they leak and come apart inside and are HORRIBLE inaccurate because they leak and get air in them be very careful I rarely use them because of problems. A syringe is way more accurate because they don't fall apart get air in them like the other cheap ones"

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tdan
Taken for 6 months to 1 year
December 8, 2020

Fiasp (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "I have been a Type 1 Diabetic for 51 years. My body will only use a brand of insulin for maybe 2 or 3 days or maybe a month. I take lots of brands of insulin. Fiasp is a very good insulin and I am thrilled to have been able to be on it. I am now on Medicare and my Fiasp isn't covered. I am going to miss using this insulin."

10 / 10

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JohnIL
Taken for 2 to 5 years
January 28, 2022

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 2 "I use both Novolog and a slow acting insulin. At first Novolog worked pretty well after meals but then I started to see a delay and a continued spike after two hours. I have seen improvement in fasting BGL but I have also gained back some weight I had lost just on the slow insulin. Using fast acting insulin is more frustrating because it adds in more monitoring on BGL and you risk injecting too much causing low blood sugars. I just think your best trying to avoid using insulin as long as you can because it is sort of a grind to start using insulin."

6 / 10

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Agate...
Taken for 1 to 6 months
January 11, 2018

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "Hello, Novolog has worked for me so far. It does increase my appetite though. I got a sample from my doctor's office to begin. I then went to the pharmacy to fill my prescription and found that it costs over $500.00. I did find a discount RX card on Novonordisk´s website, but it states that you, "may pay as little as $25.00." I read the fine print and it states, "reimbursement $100 per prescription." Has anyone here ever used it? I had to find a card so I could afford my Lantus as well. I would just like to know what to expect. If it's $25.00 or only up to $100 per rx of what they cover. I'm newly diagnosed, and I would appreciate any help."

7 / 10

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CinnyD
Taken for 1 to 2 years
August 26, 2021

For Diabetes, Type 1 "My insurance will not cover Humalog any more. Welcome novaPDF, it did not work well for me but does for my husband. Then along came insulin apart. It worked for awhile with my husband. But the last 2 bottles one gelled and stopped pump. The other just opened had no effect what so ever. Bought new bottle and seems to be working. I am going to call insurance and see if we have to go with generic. My neighbor can get Humalog, so we trade and we are both happy. Diabetes is not cheap... 2 in family is tough finically."

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EmbyR
Taken for 1 to 6 months
December 8, 2022

NovoLog FlexPen (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "I was recently moved from another short acting insulin to the NovoLog FlexPen prefilled syringes and I have to say that I absolutely don't like having to use this pen. I can never seem to get the pen needles to thread correctly on the pen and the whole thing feels incredibly cheap with very poor allowances. From observation it appears the first unit of each injection is less than a full dose compared to the second or third units in an injection and the poor manufacturing allowances just make for a product that feels cheap, sloppy, and inaccurate. The difficulties in threading the pen needle alone are aggravating enough, but right now I'm locked into this particular brand thanks to insurance (which I have an entirely different tirade about). Everything just feels so loose and cheap and frustrates me every time I have to correct my sugars."

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Jim...
Taken for 1 to 6 months
March 21, 2023

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 2 "I was forced to switch to this from Humalog when I changed insurance companies and so far I've had a terrible experience with this product. It says it's short term yet I've been told to take it way before eating, unlike my previous Humalog which was right before eating. So far, in my experience, it's more like mid-term insulin that takes far too long to begin to work, and then when it finally does it takes six hours or more before it wears off. This has caused me numerous low blood sugar events, some of which have woken me in the night with a blood sugar read of 47. Really scary. Unfortunately, I was told by one doctor, that's what your insurance pays for so get used to it. I understand the insurance companies want to make money and all but they're allowed to dictate what medications I can and can't take. Answer: YES! I'm going to see my doctor in a couple of days and will be discussing this with her in the hopes of being able to go back to Humalog."

4 / 10

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Denise
Taken for 6 months to 1 year
March 13, 2023

NovoLog FlexPen (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "I am a Type 1 diabetic and this is the worse insulin. My sugar goes up and I take the insulin and my sugar continues to go up. This is not fast acting or even acting and since CVS Caremark won't pay for the insulin (Apidra) that does work for me because they deem it to expensive and won't approve my prior authorization from my doctor I am stuck with this awful insulin."

1 / 10

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Fran
Taken for 2 to 5 years
March 29, 2023

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 2 "After increasing my dosage from once to twice daily I have gained 20 lbs in 5 months. After the first 2 months developed heart failure and I get out of breath very easily. Will be speaking to my Endroconologist regarding these unwanted side effects. Have only seen the doctor one time in 6 months, otherwise dealing with a nurse practioner."

4 / 10

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Velton
June 7, 2008

NovoLog FlexPen (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 2 "I have been on it for a little over 1 year and feel it has worked wonders for me."

9 / 10

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ChuckyD
Taken for 1 to 2 years
October 30, 2019

Fiasp (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "Was on Humalog until my insurance company stopped covering it so I was put on Fiasp. Works fast. I would say about the same as Humalog. I use pens."

10 / 10

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Anonymous
Taken for 10 years or more
June 2, 2019

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "I have used humalog, and novalog. They both work the same for me. Right now I don't have insurance so I get a insulin at Walmart called novalin R. It only cost $27.37 and it works great."

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GlenA
February 6, 2017

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "The medicine works fine, but it is in the absolute worst delivery system ever. I can't imagine an elderly person or someone with arthritis trying to use this pen."

2 / 10

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Gads
May 17, 2013

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 2 "Serious allergic reaction, hives and extreme itching."

1 / 10

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Diabe...
Taken for 10 years or more
January 29, 2019

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 1 "I have been a diabetic since I was 9 months old and still continue to use Novalog to this day and have never had any problems with the medication."

10 / 10

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furretz
August 9, 2010

NovoLog FlexPen (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 2 "Convenient, easy to use....best blood glucose numbers!"

10 / 10

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Novor...
August 22, 2021

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Insulin is fine but the actual pen the delivery is not the best. The actual pen needs work on it."

9 / 10

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Anonymous
Taken for 1 to 6 months
April 7, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Since they switched me from novolog to aspart insulin my blood sugars are extremely high and I have to take a lot more insulin then before."

2 / 10

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Just...
Taken for 1 to 6 months
September 29, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Anyone experience higher blood sugars when switching from Novolog to Aspart?"

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yashika
Taken for less than 1 month
January 14, 2023

For Diabetes, Type 2 "It is very effective as compared to other medications. It helps to reduce sugar in a few hours. However, it is very expensive with poor quality reusable pens."

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Yilma
Taken for 2 to 5 years
October 5, 2022

Novolog (insulin aspart) for Diabetes, Type 2 "This drug is not working for me at all I am diabetic 2 and I have to take a lot other wise it is not effective at all"

3 / 10

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