Insulin glargine for Type 2 Diabetes User Reviews (Page 5)

• Jim...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• June 2, 2016

"Was on language for 4 years, no side effects. Was taking 58 units. Been on Toujeo for 3 weeks, and I'm beginning to notice a pounding heartbeat off and on. It started yesterday. I hope this passes, 'cause I like the numbers I'm getting. Wasn't getting these kinds of numbers with language."

• Joh...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• November 1, 2022

"So many issues with this Basaglar insulin I don't know where to start. From inaccurate dosing with pens to a belief that there are significant differences in batches in effectiveness. I do not believe it has the properties to sustain a 24-hour release effect. It seems mostly ineffective after 15 hours. Splitting the dose into two did not change this effectiveness either."

• DRa...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• February 25, 2018

"I have liked using Lantus SoloStar until this last pen. I am concerned I am not getting the correct dosage as I too experience the puddling/leakage, and sometimes it weeps from the site. Using the same needles, I wonder if it is a defective pen or if it is malfunctioning."

• sun...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 6, 2022

"I found out Lantus wasn't covered by my insurance about June 2022, and Semglee was a replacement, although the copay assistance card made the copay $0. I finally started taking it after using up some Lantus, and after a week, I have some hives and itching. Also, I'm unusually tired when I'm not doing anything versus when I wasn't taking it. I'm going to see if I can increase my Trulicity and get off Semglee totally."

• Ste...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 8, 2021

"These pens are garbage! I use mostly products from Novo Nordisk, who have the pen design to perfection. Lantus SoloStar pens are like someone uneducated tried to copy and failed miserably. The insulin itself works well enough, the delivery method is laughable. It needs a serious redesign, one with users in mind."

• Tho...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• October 27, 2022

"It's great if you want to gain 30 pounds in 8 weeks and have your blood sugar fluctuate between 125 and 350. Mark my words, in 10 years, this will be one of those medicines they write stories about, how dangerous it is and how it damaged people."

• sue...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• September 7, 2022

"It does not control steadily, and the pens themselves are terrible. They may work for 2 injections, and they don't finish the desired injection, then they go all stiff, and you can't use them again. You need to fix your pens immediately, or people are going to be getting the wrong amounts and going through pens too quickly. Your pens need to work like Ozempic pens."

• cha...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• April 19, 2020

"My quack of a doctor laughed at me and said I was being ridiculous. Lantus and Basaglar are the same thing made by different companies. I was so angry because Basaglar does not work. I have to take about twice the dosage to get my sugar to budge, and it does not stay in my system long at all. I could miss a dose of Lantus and still have a normal blood sugar. They want to push this cheap alternative to please the insurance companies."

• Ujk...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 3, 2024

"I read so many reviews, and I was scared when I switched to Basaglar from Levemir. It's been now more than 4 months, and it's worked better than Levemir for me. No complaints. My fasting blood sugar is around 110-140. I'm very happy with it, and I think it's dependent on personal usage. Levemir is a good brand, but Basaglar works better for me."

• MrM...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• March 16, 2022

"This stuff is less than worthless, it didn't lower my blood sugar a single point at the regular dosage, and when the dose was increased, my blood sugar skyrocketed from 250 to over 400. What good is insulin that is so screwed up that it actually raises your blood sugar???"

• Kat...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• February 16, 2021

"My doctor placed me on this medication three months ago, and I immediately began noticing that I was having trouble staying asleep at night and waking with a dull headache every morning. I also noticed occasional and always unexplainable perspiration on my face and scalp. After about a month of use, lower leg swelling and shortness of breath was added to my symptoms. Upon calling my doctor, I was advised to 'stick with the Basaglar' and that it would 'get better.' And so, I tried. Then I began noticing my weight rapidly increasing and rushed to see my doctor in person. He wasn't there, but his PA immediately said that Basaglar is the culprit for all my ills, including the weight gain, and took me off this terrible med. We are now searching for something that will work in its place. The loss of quality of life just wasn't worth the small amount this medication lowered my A1C."

• Sus...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• November 5, 2020

"I have been using Basaglar QuikPen for a couple of years or more. Works the way it is supposed to work until three weeks ago. Control number D113708A, EXP DATE 06 2021, serial no. 051600492428 - as soon as I started using this box, my counts went sky high. Stayed this way through 2.5 pens. Switched to another box I had on hand, and my counts immediately went back down to my normal range. Seems to me Control number D113708A, EXP DATE 06 2021, serial no. 051600492428 is possibly defective - and the company should replace that box - I still have the 2.5 remaining pens from the box."

• Ocu...
• April 19, 2018

"The drug is great, but the pen gauge locks at a number, and it’s difficult to load it. I would prefer it sold in vials where I can draw out the dosage with a needle. They only make these in pens, a bit too steep for a beginner."

• Joh...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• February 3, 2022

"Well, my insurance informed me they won't cover Lantus anymore. I will have to go back on Basaglar. My last experience with Basaglar was not positive, I had higher fasting numbers than I did with Lantus. I am expecting the same this time, but unlike last time, my doctor won't be able to switch me back to Lantus. I am also on Novolog too, so I may have to take more short-acting to counter Basaglar. Really unfortunate that insurance makes these decisions based purely on costs and never weighs the benefits of a certain drug per each patient."

• geo...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• December 7, 2020

"I have been taking Basaglar for about 1 year now. I have had at least 4 bad pens with the effects others have been describing. Had decent control before moving to Basaglar, then once I switched to another box of pens, sugars went crazy. First one was June 2020, which was accompanied by lower extremity swelling. Had another pen with potency effects in August, and now I have another. I also had one pen that would not dial at all and was told I had to contact the company. These are not cheap pens, by the way! My retail price on a 3-month supply is over $400! Thank goodness my insurance is covering it, but I'm really concerned. I don't feel comfortable taking an unreliable medication that can possibly result in serious complications later! The number on the most recent pen is D170767A with an expiration of 10/2021."

• Mat...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• December 9, 2017

"Insulin works fine, just have trouble with the pen. Always pain and pen jammed twice. Needle tip bends due to unwanted pressure, need to put on the injecting switch. Novolog pen is easy to use. Already reported this problem to the company in July 2017 and returned the defective pen to the company. It happened again."

• Win...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• April 18, 2016

"I was on Lantus SoloStar pens for nine months. What bugged me was the dose I was taking never matched the dose lines on the pen, also, there was always at least 10 to 15 units left in the pen that could not come out. My co-pay was $340.00 for 5 pens. I got up to needing 70 units a day, one pen equaled 4 days. I solved that by going to vials and syringes. Still taking Lantus, it is the only insulin I have been on, so not sure it is best for me."

• Jim...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• October 26, 2022

"I want to say my doctors had me on this for about 8 to 9 months, but I hadn’t been taking it regularly with my glimepiride and metformin. So the doctor put me on a shot of Trulicity once a week, along with 22 units daily of the Lantus SoloSTAR, along with the Metformin and the glimepiride. And although it’s my fault for the numbers to be running in the 160 to 170 range, the numbers are way better than they used to be, and there are really little to no spikes whatsoever unless I’m not exercising or I’m eating poorly."

• gud...
• February 12, 2017

"Toujeo SoloStar was a vast improvement over the old insulin, the best part is the needles. The only thing that sucks is that the province of Ontario does not approve it. I wish they would get their act together. I am a senior, and I have to pay for this type of insulin. I may have to change back to the old insulin soon unless the Ontario government approves it."

• Dia...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• March 8, 2021

"Out of the last 3 boxes of Basaglar Kwikpen with 15 pens total, seven of the pens have jammed. They are defective. Some of them worked for several doses, some of them did not work at all, ever. It is not a problem with needles, I change the needle each time, and sometimes a whole pen will work, and as you see, half of them are defective. At this time, I have no more, and my prescription cannot be renewed until next week. Will call the doctor and beg, I guess, to get some more insulin. I never had this problem with Lantus in the past."

• Sha...
• August 10, 2022

"Since starting Basaglar, I have had so many medical issues. Back pain and joint pain have made it difficult to walk, and now I have pain meds that I never, ever had to take. The fatigue is so overwhelming that I can't function. I am sleeping 20 out of 24 hours. I try to force myself up, but within an hour, I feel like I am on anesthesia and cannot fight against the need to sleep. My blood sugars have no rhyme or reason. I eat the same things every day at the same time, and I can wake up with a blood sugar of 80 to one of over 300. Two hours after eating, I felt really nauseous and just strange. I tested my blood sugar, and it was 42. I drank some orange juice to bring it up to 80. I didn't eat the rest of the day, and I tested my blood sugar before bed, and I was at 268. I have three meters, so I know it is a true reading. I have spans of two to four days of flu-like symptoms with extreme nausea three or four times a month. No one else in the house gets sick."

• Fru...
• April 15, 2021

"I had always used Lantus for my Type II diabetes for several years. My new insurance company's formulary doesn't cover it. I contacted Sanofi to get a $99 Rx Savings Card, which I used for 2 refills without problems. This month, my Rx request for Lantus was switched over to Basaglar, which is unacceptable and unauthorized. I tried this, and it didn't work for me. I can't deal with the side effects. I find it annoying and unconscionable that insurance companies have the audacity to switch patient medications without first consulting a patient's physician to make sure that patients won't experience adverse reactions to a change in medication. There shouldn't be able to be doing this. 'First, do no harm' should be their primary focus, not their own selfish bottom line. The FDA doesn't consider nor did it approve Basaglar as a biosimilar to Lantus because Lantus wasn't approved under the Public Health Service Act, so there is no “reference product” for a proposed biosimilar product."

• Her...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 29, 2020

"Well, I have tried this a few times, every time I do, it makes me sick!!! I have been down for 3 days now because of it! I feel like I can't breathe, and I'm shaking really bad, and headaches as well. My sugar dropped one day to e46, and I feel sick, sick! Today I chose to stop it again because my sugar used to be 6, and I'm 8.8 now, but the doctor is going to have to figure something out! It's messing with my anxiety, my chest hurts as well, and sweating and heat flashes! The tremors make me feel old as anything because I'm shaking like an old woman! Does anybody else know how long it made them feel sick for? Last time I took it, it was days to make me feel better when I stopped it. Hope it helps someone else! Definitely can't forget about shortness of breath or feeling like you can't breathe with chest pain!"

• Ste...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 9, 2021

"I started taking Toujeo in April 2021. My first reaction to the drug was joint pain and swelling in my calves, ankles, and knees. My calves looked like giant (chicken) drumsticks. This insulin has interacted with my blood pressure medications, where I have developed edema. Dependent edema is what I was diagnosed with. My insulin has recently been changed to Levemir. I've only been on the new insulin for a couple of days. How long does it take before the new drug (insulin) takes effect? My balance is off, my legs are heavy to move to the point where I am dragging my feet when I walk, and this scares me."

• Pat...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 8, 2021

"I was recently switched from Bydureon to Basaglar, and that mess raised my blood sugar, never lowered it, and gave me headaches. Now I eat red grapefruit, which lowers my blood sugar instantly, and no more meds for me. These meds are so bad for you before they heal you. Home remedies work better, my blood sugar was 216, grapefruit took it down to 163."