Lixisenatide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands
Lixisenatide 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
- Solution
- Sold as
- Adlyxin
- Prescription?
- Prescription only
- Generic available?
- Not in our catalog
Every lixisenatide 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: Adlyxin.
Combination products containing lixisenatide
A combination is a different drug — different dosing, different warnings. It is listed here so you can find it, not so you can substitute it.
Lixisenatide and breastfeeding
From LactMed, the US National Library of Medicine’s Drugs and Lactation Database — quoted, not rewritten.
Full LactMed record for lixisenatide: levels in milk, effects in breastfed infants, and the drugs it would consider insteadNo information is available on the clinical use of lixisenatide during breastfeeding. Because lixisenatide is a large peptide molecule with a molecular weight of 4858 daltons, the amount in milk is likely to be very low and absorption is unlikely because it is probably destroyed in the infant's gastrointestinal tract. Until more data become available, lixisenatide should be used with caution during breastfeeding, especially while nursing a newborn or preterm infant.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, record revised May 15, 2026. LactMed states its information is not a substitute for professional judgement.
What people report to the FDA about lixisenatide
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) collects reports from patients and clinicians. It holds 321 reports naming lixisenatide, and the FDA flagged 90% 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:
- blood glucose increased40 reports
- nausea28 reports
- hypoglycaemia27 reports
- diarrhoea25 reports
- malaise22 reports
- vomiting20 reports
- weight decreased19 reports
- diabetic ketoacidosis18 reports
Read these as a signal, not a rate. A report does not mean lixisenatide 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 lixisenatide 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 lixisenatide 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 lixisenatide come in?
Across the brands we track, lixisenatide is currently marketed as solution, 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 lixisenatide?
We do not currently list a generic-labelled lixisenatide 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
- APA
- pharmaranks. (2026, July 24). Lixisenatide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands. https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/lixisenatide
- MLA
- “Lixisenatide: uses, dosing, side effects & brands.” pharmaranks, 24 July 2026, https://pharmaranks.com/drugs/lixisenatide.
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 lixisenatide on DailyMed (NIH) ↗.