Compare Tradjenta vs. Victoza
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Lowers blood sugar.
Tradjenta (linagliptin) is good add-on medicine for controlling your blood sugar, but may cause body aches.
Lowers your blood sugar.
Victoza (liraglutide) is a medicine you inject once a day to control diabetes, but it can be expensive.
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4.7/ 5 average rating with 22 reviewsforVictoza
Upsides
- Good add-on medicine if your blood sugars are still not controlled
- Good option if you have bad liver or kidney function.
- Can be taken once daily.
- Does not cause weight gain.
- Does not cause hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) when taken by itself.
- Lowers A1c (average blood sugar over time) up to 1.5%.
- Helps with weight loss and controls appetite.
- Only medicine in this class with proven heart health benefits.
- No limitation for people with kidney problems, but close monitoring is recommended.
- Medicine is ready to use, without need to mix.
Downsides
- Not first-choice anti-diabetes medicine because it doesn't lower blood sugar levels as much as others.
- Available as brand only and may be expensive
- Only available as an injection.
- Brand name medicine and can be expensive.
- Compared to other similar medicines, you have to inject this every day.
Used for
Dosage forms
- Pill
- Injection
Price
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$460.39
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Reviews
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22 reviews so far
73%
saidit'sworth it
91%
saiditworked well
27%
saidit'sa big hassle
Have you used Victoza (liraglutide)?
Leave a reviewSide effects
6possible side effects
- Back pain9%
- Joint pain8%
- Lung infection8%
- Headache6%
- Cough6%
- Pain in the limbs5%
2possible side effects
- Low blood sugar - self-treatable27%
- Injection site reactions2%
Risks and risk factors
- Inflammation of pancreas (pancreatitis)
- Alcoholism
- Elevated triglycerides
- History of pancreatitis
- Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
- Alcoholism
- Exercising more than you usually do
- Insulin
- Other antidiabetic medications
- Severe allergic reactions
- Severe joint pain
- Fluid-filled blisters on the skin (bullous pemphigoid)
- Thyroid cancer
- History of MTC
- History of MEN 2
- inflammation of pancreas (pancreatitis)
- History of pancreatitis
- History of gallstones
- alcoholism
- Elevated triglycerides
- Severe allergic reactions
- Kidney damage
- Kidney problems
- dehydration
- Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
- Use of insulin(s)
- Use of insulin-secreting medicines.
- Severe stomach problems
- Stomach or digestive tract disease
- Gastroparesis