Enoxaparin: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Enoxaparin is a medicine sold in the U.S. under one brand. Below: what the FDA label says, every product that contains it, what the pills look like, and its recall record.
Key facts
- Available as
- Injectable
- Sold as
- Lovenox
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
- What the pharmacy pays
- about $8 per ml — not your price
Every enoxaparin product we track (1)
Same active ingredient — different manufacturer, form, price and FDA recall record. That last one is what our independent score measures.
Only one: Lovenox.
Enoxaparin recalls
From the FDA Enforcement database. A recall covers specific lots — not the drug as a whole.
How long enoxaparin keeps
No enoxaparin label we read sets a separate limit for after opening, but they do specify how it must be stored — and the stability behind any date assumes those conditions.
Does enoxaparin expire? The in-use limits and storage rules from its labelsEnoxaparin and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for enoxaparin: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadMaternal enoxaparin in doses up to 40 mg daily do not to cause any adverse effects in breastfed infants. Because its large molecular weight of 2000 to 8000 daltons, enoxaparin would not be expected to be excreted into breastmilk or to be absorbed from breastmilk by the infant. No special precautions are required.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised November 15, 2025. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about enoxaparin
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 22,274 reports naming enoxaparin, and the FDA flagged 87% of those reports as serious. The effects reported most often — leaving out reports about overdose, misuse or the condition being treated, which dominate the raw list for common medicines:
- dyspnoea999 reports
- nausea963 reports
- diarrhoea957 reports
- pyrexia904 reports
- anaemia820 reports
- vomiting813 reports
- fatigue764 reports
- thrombocytopenia730 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean enoxaparin caused the effect — anyone can file one, and many describe people taking several medicines for several conditions. Crucially there is no denominator: FAERS does not record how many people took the drug, so these counts cannot be turned into “X% of patients” — a bigger number often just means a more widely used or more talked-about drug. Duplicates exist, and publicity drives reporting. For what is actually established, read the FDA label section above.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved July 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take enoxaparin with other medicines?
It depends on the medicine. We check it against the FDA labels rather than guessing: our interaction checker searches each drug's own label for the other and quotes what it says, naming the section it came from. Run enoxaparin against whatever else you take — and remember that a label not naming a drug is not the same as that combination being safe.
What forms does enoxaparin come in?
Across the brands we track, enoxaparin is currently marketed as injectable, per the FDA's National Drug Code Directory. Each form is dosed differently — follow the label for the exact product you were prescribed.
Is there a generic enoxaparin?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled enoxaparin product. That does not always mean none exists — it means none appears under a generic name in the FDA data we track. Ask your pharmacist.
Has enoxaparin been recalled?
The FDA's Enforcement database lists 1 recall record whose product description mentions enoxaparin. The most recent: Enoxaparin Sodium Injection (Aug 5, 2025). A recall applies to specific lots, not to the drug as a whole — check the record for the affected lot numbers.
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Enoxaparin: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/enoxaparin
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- “Enoxaparin: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/enoxaparin.
We summarise public FDA and NIH sources — for a clinical claim, cite the primary source we link to as well.
Sources: FDA openFDA drug label, National Drug Code Directory, and Enforcement (recall) database. This page reproduces public FDA data and is not medical advice. Dosing is set by your prescriber.
Read the full FDA label for enoxaparin on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.