Insulin lispro for Type 2 Diabetes User Reviews

• Swe...
• August 15, 2020

Insulin lispro "I never had problems with Novolog pens, but this Humalog pen is horrible! I watch my diet carefully, so I don't have to use it as often, but when my blood sugar shoots up, I need it. Twice, the same pen stopped working, so I had to take it back to the pharmacy. Every Humalog pen I have used since, you have to keep pumping and twisting so that you end up with bruises! It never delivers what you put it on, so you actually don't know how much you are injecting! This product is horrible, and those making it should either make it right or be accountable!!!"

• Fru...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• December 25, 2021

Insulin lispro "Been using these pens for about 1 year. Mostly, they work well. But, I have noticed that they are inconsistent in strength from one lot to another. Let's say I'm finishing a pen where my numbers are beautiful. When that's empty, I start using a new pen with a different lot number. Suddenly, my numbers are crazy high. Same foods and exercise. I have to inject more units with the next meal just to bring my numbers back down. The pharmacy gave me a new pen as an experiment. Sure enough, my numbers went back to normal immediately. I went back to the old pen and high numbers again. Called Lilly to report this, and they blame me for 'doing something wrong.'"

• Ric...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• November 3, 2019

Insulin lispro "I've been on Humalog for several years. I've tried Novolog and Apidra, and both have given me terrible side effects. Humalog also gave me side effects, and I have noticed that throughout the years it has gotten worse. The headaches start from the back of my head, then it works its way down the back of my neck and spine. It has also created an upset stomach that leads to acid reflux, chest pains, and an increase in blood pressure. It has sent me to the ER several times, at first not realizing it was the insulin causing all the problems. When I stopped it to use Apidra, all the symptoms disappeared for about a week until I started getting other side effects from the Apidra that were worse, and I had no choice but to go back to Humalog. I seem to have run out of options. I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't...in search of a better solution before it kills me..."

• cat...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• April 23, 2018

Insulin lispro "I used to have effective treatment of diabetes with Humalog and Lantus, but recently the Humalog is not working. I gave the Humalog company a call, but they said they had not recently received other complaints. I've been on the 100, 200, and now the 500 strength, and none of them are working. Seems like the pens are filled with water, not insulin."

• JJa...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• August 22, 2019

Insulin lispro "The Humalog drug works very well. The Humalog Kwik Pen SUCKS. The pens stick and are very inconsistent with the ease of injection. I used Novolog until I went on Medicare, and my drug plan switched me to Humalog. Never had a single problem with the Novolog pens."

• Alx...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• September 12, 2013

Insulin lispro "I have had diabetes for three years, and I was not able to control it much. I had been on Lantus and Humulin. Unfortunately, my sugar readings were too high. It's been a month now since I'm on Humalog, and my readings have never been better. I'm so glad my doctor put me on Humalog, it really works."

• Haw...
• November 10, 2019

Insulin lispro "Started Admelog 6 months ago for insurance reasons. I developed shortness of breath, increased heart rate, sinusitis, and the feeling like I had something in my throat when I lay down. I also had severe lumbar sacral back pain. I could only stand or walk for about 10 minutes. I had to stop insulin for insurance reasons, and that is when I realized it was the insulin. Symptoms stopped within about 24 hours."

• LOS...
• April 6, 2020

Insulin lispro "I've been using these Humalog KwikPens for almost 2 years. I have had issues with half of them. They won't inject correctly! I've tried different things like doing less for each press, and sometimes that helps. I've jiggled and moved it, and nope. What annoys me even more is looking at a brand new pen I have to throw away because it just doesn't work! I've talked to the pharmacist, and they say to contact Novolog. I sent info to Novolog and no response. I will have to ask my doctor to put me on something else. This feeling that you paid for a cheap toy that breaks as soon as you get it home. I do not recommend this at all!"

• Big...
• January 24, 2016

Insulin lispro "My insurance company, Aetna, switched from the Novolog Flex Pen to the Humalog KwikPen, and I've had nothing but problems ever since. The Novolog Pen worked very well, and I never had any issues with it. Since switching to the Humalog Pen, I've had constant problems getting it to work properly. The part that gets pushed down often gets stuck, and it becomes impossible to administer the insulin that I need to manage my Type 2 diabetes. I don't understand why the insurance companies have to change from a perfectly good product to one that is substandard. I'm contacting Aetna to see if there is any way to switch back to the Novolog FlexPen."

• Jay...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• March 13, 2020

Insulin lispro "This is unacceptable to give people this medicine. Playing with others' lives for money. My blood sugar has been over 290 every day no matter what I eat. I could eat a salad and check, and it goes from 136 to over 200. What is this stuff? It is making the pancreas weaker or destroying it slowly while slowly destroying our body and falling apart. Back was okay for a while, but since my body went into ketoacidosis, it's severe back degeneration. Ketoacidosis destroys the muscle and fat. Never had that in my life. I lost so much weight and am in so much pain."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• December 23, 2017

Insulin lispro "While this medication works well, the KwikPen is terrible! It gets stuck before the insulin can be used. Having to throw away insulin is just ridiculous, especially at the prices charged! I'm going to ask my doctor for an alternative."

• Def...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• March 24, 2021

Insulin lispro "Humalog KwikPen 200 unit insulin products have been defective for years and continue being defective. Since too much or too little fast-acting insulin can cause death, this is a very serious matter. The mechanism in those devices jams and skips gears, and this is visible as the plunger does not move or moves way too much, resulting in too little or too much insulin being injected. Lilly's phone line connects hapless patients to a labyrinth of submenus of Byzantine complexity that it is useless, possibly by design."

• Deb...
• February 27, 2020

Insulin lispro "These pens are terrible. The company should be closed down. They malfunction, and sometimes I have to inject myself 3 times to get my dosage. My insurance made me get these, but I will pay to use Lantus Solostar. Don't get this product!"

• cha...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 18, 2019

Insulin lispro "My experience in the last few hours: At 8:29 pm, my BS was 101. I then took 30 u Admelog (a huge amount). I ate a big bowl of Cheerios with a banana, some sugar, and ingested about 15 oz of rice milk (I drank half of that). THREE HOURS and 23 MIN LATER, at 11:52, MY BS was 218! I just took another 30 units of it. I've had no further carbs. I received and opened the Styrofoam Admelog case on November 8. See how unsatisfactory the Admelog is?"

• Kat...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• August 10, 2019

Insulin lispro "I have been on Humalog for over a year and it works well in dropping high sugar; however, I started having a fast pulse. An EKG was done and shows sinus tachycardia. I found in the PDR (Physicians' Desk Reference) that Humalog causes sinus tachycardia. So I'm done with Humalog."

• asi...
• October 28, 2016

Insulin lispro "My insurance company changed to Humalog KwikPen; my short response - it sucks! The medicine works well when I actually get it administered, but their crappy pen just does not work properly. I take 5 to 8 units a few times per day, but the pen does not seem to develop enough pressure to push the med into my body."

• Ton...
• September 18, 2017

Insulin lispro "Called Eli Lilly about their Humalog 50/50 pen being stuck on 42 and not moving (still has over 180 units left). I was called a cow (slander) by their agent. Won't use their products anymore, still have the pen, lost money on it. Shame on you, Eli Lilly."

• Non...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• November 10, 2018

Insulin lispro "It did not work when I used it, and it gave me high blood pressure. That was how I started taking blood pressure medication. When I stopped, my blood pressure got better but never went back to what it was prior."

• Luc...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• November 3, 2022

Insulin lispro "A substandard product which is not fit for purpose, the pen keeps jamming, so you have no idea how much insulin has actually been injected. It does not click when the insulin has been administered. Unlike other insulin pens, the company does not want to take responsibility for a product that should not be sold. They say the pen is jamming because the users are not putting a new needle on or not administering the insulin correctly. Take it off the market."

• Kat...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• February 17, 2021

Insulin lispro "This medication was prescribed to me with instructions that I should use it on a sliding scale, depending on what my blood sugar is reading and what I'll be eating. I've discovered that if I follow this guideline closely, it works great. For example: A BS reading of 124 just before eating an apple calls for me injecting 4 units of the medication, just enough to keep the natural sugar of the apple from pushing me too high. Yet, that same BS reading of 124 just before eating a bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats with whole milk... well, that requires me to inject 10 units to compensate for all that fake sugar. When that is kept in mind and closely monitored, this medication is a winner. As for side effects... I developed an occasional case of nasal and throat congestion due to taking it, but a very minor dose of any OTC decongestant takes care of that."

• cja...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• January 5, 2020

"This is life-threatening, do not trust this medication. I have been on insulin since the early '90s, and on my (many) versions of insulin, I have been able to somewhat control my sugar. I have had many times in which my levels would climb to over 400-500 and had emergency care. I have been on this for a few months, and I cannot control my levels. Some days I will use a pen, and all is OK, but then 50% of the time I get a pen that does nothing. Tonight, for example, I took my normal amount at my normal time. I felt bad, so I checked my sugars 3 hours after taking the injection, and my meter read high glucose over 600 on multiple tests to ensure the machine did not error. This stuff is dangerous to the point of being life-endangering. It has put me in the ER 3 times in the past 5 weeks. I am contacting the company on this issue as it has become a liability."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• July 17, 2020

Insulin lispro "The Humalog KwikPen insulin works well, but I have had the issue of my pens jamming, sticking, and just not working. I called the number on the paper that was in the box with the pens. I spoke to the nicest young man, and he helped me fix my pen, then gave me some advice on how to avoid these issues in the future. He even got me a replacement because I ended up throwing a broken pen away before I could finish using it (~100 units left)."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• April 18, 2021

"I use the Humalog 75/25, and I have not had any problems with the pens or the medicine's efficiency. Then I switched to the generic because it was cheaper and supposedly just as good. It isn't. You have to use 1 1/2 more product of the generic as you do the original dosage to get the same effect. I will be switching back to the original when my generic runs out."

• Dav...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 31, 2023

Insulin lispro "My doctor gave me a sample vial of Lyumjev because my Medicare prescription plan is dropping Humalog that I use in my Tandem TSlim pump. I also have a Dexcom G6 CGM which communicates with my Tandem pump and I use the Tandem Control IQ feature to keep my blood sugars within range and very rarely have a hypo event using Humalog. Lyumjev is not approved by the pump manufacturer, but apparently Cigna does not care. So, after using an entire vial of Lyumjev, I may have to get an exception to continue getting Humalog or its equivalent. Lyumjev caused fairly severe stinging at the infusion site, especially during boluses. It also caused my skin to react and sometimes have minor bleeding at the cannula which would bleed out to the infusion site bandage. I kept trying to find infusion locations which would not sting so much, but, in my case, it still stung fairly significantly. My endocrinologist warned me that this was a known side effect."

• don...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• June 28, 2023

"I use Lispro for several years now. I had to get special permission from Florida Blue Medicare in order to take it. I find that Lispro works just as well as Humalog, and if you look at the ingredients in the Humalog kwikpen, it states Insulin Lispro Injection on it. My Lispro is also made by Lilly, just like Humalog. Lispro works for me without any issues. I'm on a sliding scale in the AM: 16 units prior to lunch, 16 units prior to supper, and sliding scale at bedtime. I also take 23 units of Lantus insulin 15 minutes after supper. I would recommend Lispro as a more cost-effective insulin to take, even though it's now capped at $35. It's still a lower price point."