Tresiba User Reviews & Ratings (Page 5)

• LBishop
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 21, 2018

For Diabetes, Type 1 "A little background: I’m a T1 diabetic who’s successfully used pens forever (last A1C was 6.3). I’m also a medical student and like to tinker with my prescriptions when I learn new stuff. So, I had high hopes when I learned about degludec and talked to my endo about it. Unfortunately, Tresiba just didn’t work for me – it caused wild swings in my daily sugars, almost as if it made me more sensitive to my rapid acting insulin (which doesn’t physiologically make sense, I know). For 3 1/2 weeks I tried all sorts of different things to get a handle on it, but the final straw was when I had to ask a quiz proctor for an excuse to go buy juice because I’d eaten all my glucose tablets (something I’ve never had to do in my life). Maybe with more time it would’ve calmed down, but I was so frustrated after the quiz incident that I immediately switched back to Lantus - and my sugars normalized immediately. I’m now on Toujeo and have had no problems. Every body is different."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• December 25, 2021

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Started Tresiba 2 years ago, from day one I would wake up in the morning and could not see my vision was dark and blurred, I told the doctor and he said my eyesight was adjusting to the insulin since then I have had laser surgery and a vitreous surgeries on both eyes. My hair falls out every day. I have been off the insulin for a week now and through diet and exercise I have been able to manage my sugar blood levels and my hair has stopped falling out, my eyesight has improved."

• DVR
• Taken for less than 1 month
• May 7, 2023

For Diabetes, Type 1 "Tresiba is awful. I've been a type 1 diabetic since 1986. I'd been on Lantus for over 20 years, and my diabetes was really well-balanced. My CGM time-in-range was usually around 90% with very few hypos, and almost no serious ones. However, in a diabetes review that sounded like a box-ticking exercise, my HbA1c was deemed too low (5.9%), even though nobody looked at my TIR or the incidence of hypos. I was told to ditch Lantus for Tresiba. Nobody told me that the pharmacokinetics were different, and that I had to build a therapeutic accumulation over the first few days. As a result, I swapped Lantus for Tresiba like-for-like, and for the first two nights, it sounded like it didn't work at all (my blood glucose was shooting up dangerously in the middle of the night, to the point I had to do a correction with humalog). As a result, I increased the Tresiba on the second night, and the third. In the morning of the 4st day, I had a MASSIVE Hypo coma. First time in 25 years and I entirely blame it on Tresiba."

• dog...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 21, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 2 "After four weeks of of getting chronically tired worsening every day since starting 12 units of daily Tresiba I was taken off this insulin and given back my former insulin NOVILIN..... It was like a heavy fog lifting and I began returning to normal. I warn all to be suspicious of the Tresiba . if you are taking it and start getting brain fog or getting more and more tired ....get off it asap. Do not accept tweaks.... They do not work. I ,myself, was too zonked to take action thank goodness my husband got fed up with his "ZOMBIE" wife and petitioned my doctor with the data and medical observations."

• JBano
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 14, 2020

For Diabetes, Type 1 "My blood sugars have been terrible on Tresiba Up and down up and down Every night I have low sugar then it spikes up like crazy Never had this on Lantus My dr also recommended the pens DON'T DO IT! You cannot trust the pens. Sometimes they shoot air and not insulin so your blood sugars will be way out of control I’d like to know what the doctors get for pushing the Tresiba from the company When I told my dr the pens are awful she said she had never heard this from any other patient. So I looked at reviews terrible terrible reviews!!!"

• Poland...
• May 7, 2021

For Diabetes, Type 1 "Hello. I'm from Poland. I took Tresiba in October 2019 my sugars were not too bad. But my sense of well-being was terrible. I had shortness of breath, headache and dizziness, stomach pain on the right side, fatigue, sadness. After 2 months I returned to Levemir. In April 2020, I started to feel terrible, it turned out that I now have celiac disease and histamine intolerance. My doctor looked at me as if I was crazy as I told him that I felt terrible after tresiba. I have the impression that Tresiba led to celiac disease."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• December 2, 2017

For Diabetes, Type 1 "I very much wanted this insulin to be great, but as usual, the pharmaceutical companies failed again. This insulin seemed at first to eliminate the dawn phenomenon I experienced taking humulin n, lantus, levemir. But now, I can't seem to get any balance to occur no matter what I do! It's completely unpredictable. I've had a 500+ fasting blood glucose, after going asleep at a decent 140 the night before. Or wake up at 6 am at 100, take my daily dose, not eat, and be 350 by noon. The drastic blood glucose swings on this are extremely frustrating. All the money big pharma makes on this med you'd think they could improve lives, ha! Guess I'll go back to humulin n. Lantus kills my back, and burns. Levemir gives me yeast infections."

• Mutasim
• January 25, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 1 "I have been a big fan of this medication it used to be a miracle and it changed my blood sugar from bad fluctuation to steady line. Lately in the last few months it’s started to give me headache low blood pressure feeling “not really low blood pressure” makes me aware of my heart and strange dizziness, lower attention. I never had any of those symptom in the past with Tersiba and as soon as I take it the side effects start appearing. I’m now on other medicine beside this and Nova Rapid. I wish if Tresiba sees my Review and make this drug like it used to be."

• Adam...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• November 10, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 1 "I thought I was going crazy but turns out the core problem is this insulin. I went out of my way to get blood tests, MRI scans and constant trips to the GP regarding heart palpitations and numbness in my body and feeling dazed. Turns out it’s been happening ever since I started taking this insulin. It makes me feel very good knowing I’m not alone. My experience with this insulin is horrible I wish I had the same experience as the majority who say it’s changed their life. Never going near this Insulin again I have just one more day with it before i officially switch back to Lantus."

• Great...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 31, 2018

For Diabetes, Type 1 "Tresiba is awesome. I was on multi pumps for the last 20 years with a with an A1c around 6.2-6.7 and a std dev of about 50 to now my A1C of 5.1-5.6 std dev of about 25-30. This is a magnificent drug. I keep flat most the day, its like a magnet want me to be in range. I take it first thing when I wake up."

• tarry
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• July 27, 2021

For Diabetes, Type 1 "These are my side effects - feet so swollen can not walk, pain in my legs bad, fluid in my lungs very ,very sick been on this since December. It helps to lower my high blood sugars but has made me very sick . I am hoping to be back on lantus refuse to take this 7 months of he'll think it's lawyer time good luck everyone who is on this"

• Rooster
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• April 3, 2018

For Diabetes Mellitus "Was on Tresiba in the morning only about a year with great results. For the last couple of months I have elevated glucose levels at night with fasting highs. I have had diabetes 53 years so I am not a newbie! My doctor moved me back to levemir in the evening and it is causing nighttime lows and, daytime highs. I am considering going back to Tresiba and splitting my dose to twice a day which he did not suggest so this is just my idea. It is a once daily, 24 hour dose. Anyone have any comments about trying this?"

• Tresiba...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• November 3, 2016

For Diabetes, Type 1 "The only thing I hate is the pen injector pushes very hard it actually bothers my thumb joint after 6 months I have to use my other hand to push the injector button in. They need to get them like my lantuas which hardly takes any effort. I will probrably switch back to lantuas just because of that. You think after all the effort put into creating insulin they wouldn't cut corners on the injection pen.."

• Red...
• September 1, 2021

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Hello Everyone I have Type 2 diabetes My Dr Recommended me to take Tresiba I have used for 10 days and I lost my sex life . I immediately stopped taking Tresiba & gained back. so my message is not to Take Tresiba if you love you sex life"

• broke...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• April 3, 2023

For Diabetes, Type 1 "If you’re type 1 and reading these reviews, take all type 2 reviews with a grain of salt. It seems many were ill-advised by their doctors and made the switch with few additional check-ins, were not staying hydrated, and likely expected insulin to be the miracle fix when in reality many other things need to be addressed. The American medical system is so broken. Also, take note that it is not an exact unit for unit switch. I was taking 20u Lantus then ended up on a 13u/14u every other day split. Tresiba is the ONLY long-acting insulin I will ever consider. It has an approx 40-48-hour life in the body, making it possible for me to have more stability in my life. If you’re seeing constant highs at the end of your Lantus dose, or splitting the dose, give tresiba a fair shot - use for a month, STAY HYDRATED, and see how stable your basal insulin is."

• Munem
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• December 27, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 1 "Best basal insulin on the market. I have tried Levemir and Lantus neither come close to the flatness of Tresiba. Tresiba works over a long period. Downside is that where I inject I feel itchy for a few moments. Great insulin and cannot imagine life without it!"

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 23, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 1 "I’ve been a type one diabetic 41 years and my insurance no longer covers Lantus so my endocrinologist recommended this. I change to try Tresiba and said it was the best thing ever however, something is not right because my blood sugars are all over the place and when I give myself my short-acting NovoLog insulin to counteract carbohydrate intake or to correct blood sugars over 100 It takes three hours for the insulin to actually show that it’s working and then I’m all the sudden on a sudden downward slope. I’m confused I never dealt with this when I was on Lantus, but I read the other review that said you have to wait about eight days for it to work so I started taking this six days ago maybe in the next couple of days I’ll notice a difference?"

• Munim...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• November 17, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 1 "Was on Lantus for years, gave me terrible random low blood sugars during night and day. On Tresiba now for many years and the best basal insulin I’ve ever had, I’ve also taken Levemir. I found on Tresiba my hypos are less in number and less severe, much more manageable and flatter blood sugars. Love it, and highly recommend it. Only negative is that the Pre-filled pens leak post injection."

• Mrs...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 19, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 1 "Like many others, I was forced by my insurance to switch from Lantus. I started using Basaglar. I was never thrilled with the pens they have. Very hard to push. Anyway, recently I was forced to switch again by my insurance. This time I switched to Tresiba. I'm still on my first box of it, but so far I like it. I had no issues with the Basaglar insullin, but I think that the Tresiba is more effective for me. Both the Basaglar and Tresiba tend to make me bottom out overnight (made obvious by my Dexcom), but if I have some protein before bed I tend to not wake up with a low. With Tresiba however, unless I'm having a heavy carb food, I find i sometimes don't need to inject any Humalog. One less injection! Works for me :-)"

• Kat
• Taken for less than 1 month
• February 24, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 2 "I have never been more sick than I was on Tresiba. We were at a hotel in Pigeon Forge, Tn. and the water was turned off for the night and I was so vomiting all night. I kept thinking about the poor cleaning lady what a mess she would have to clean up - she probably quit the next day. I WAS SO SO SICK!"

• Innisc
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• March 25, 2018

For Diabetes, Type 1 "I've been on TRESIBA for 4 weeks and my averages on my meter show a steady reduction in glucose levels. I feel stronger and have much better energy. I wake up with normal blood sugar levels for the first time in years. Very happy I asked my doctor to make the change!"

• Grambo
• April 1, 2021

For Diabetes, Type 1 "Been a diabetic type 1 for 22 years. Been on lispro my whole life with average a1c of 6.8. My endocrinologist has recommended tresiba and novo instead. So far I'm finding it to be great for stabilization on blood sugars and I've been exercising and working construction so far I'm loving it."

• Matt...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• June 7, 2022

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Type 1 diabetic since I was in my 30's, never had any issues with any kind of dizziness, blacking out, wooziness... even when my glucose was SO HIGH, a reading with a glucose meter only produced a HIGH reading.. not EVEN a number. I was told by a doctor that your body does what it does, so I never took it seriously. That is until they medical profession started scaring people with this A1C crap and your body not producing insulin! I started taking it seriously then and started taking Tresiba SERIOUSLY now since 2015, originally starting at 30 units a day without any incidents at all! Because of my circumstances with my wife having dementia in 2016, I was not eating on a schedule, mostly processed foods, and increased my insulin intake to 2 shots a day, 12 hours apart at 30 units each, my A1C was around 8.2%, increased to 14.8%, and it's now down to around 10.4% & 10.2% the last 2 blood tests... now test my glucose 2 times a day for the last 3 months, adjusting units each shot. ERRATIC"

• John
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 29, 2023

For Diabetes, Type 2 "My insurance dropped Basaglar, so my doctor put me on Tresiba. I guess it's a little better than Basaglar, which is not saying much. I've never had as good control of my blood glucose levels since insurance dropped Lantus. Personally, I think all of these man-made insulins have their limitations. If your body is already resistant to your own insulin, I'm pretty sure a man-made one won't be much better. I'm trying to go in a different direction and avoid the rabbit hole of more and more insulin. At least Tresiba has better overlap coverage, which does seem to work better overnight."

• Reneell
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• October 27, 2021

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Tresiba has caused my liver enzymes to rise and non alcoholic fatty liver disease. I stopped taking the tresiba for 10 days and enzymes went from 212 to 178 still high, but I want to get back to the good numbers before I started taking tresiba."