Insulin Icodec: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Insulin Icodec 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
- Awiqli Flextouch
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every insulin icodec 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: Awiqli Flextouch.
What people report to the FDA about insulin icodec
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 57 reports naming insulin icodec, and the FDA flagged 98% 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:
- hypoglycaemia21 reports
- fall4 reports
- hospitalisation4 reports
- hyperglycaemia4 reports
- blood glucose decreased3 reports
- blood glucose increased3 reports
- chronic kidney disease3 reports
- diarrhoea3 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean insulin icodec 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.
Source: openFDA drug/event (FAERS), retrieved September 25, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Can you take insulin icodec 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 insulin icodec 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 insulin icodec come in?
Across the brands we track, insulin icodec 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 insulin icodec?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled insulin icodec 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.
Cite this page
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- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Insulin Icodec: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/insulin-icodec
- MLA
- “Insulin Icodec: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/insulin-icodec.
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 insulin icodec on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.