Anyone here taking BYETTA? What has been your experience with this drug? My mother is taking this drug. It's so new that I'm a bit concerned. Her biggest problem is that the injection sites leave large sores. Byetta is injected in the stomach area. Does anyone have any advice for preventing them or getting them to heal quicky?

Byetta is designed for type 2s only. It works in conjuncuction with oral antidiabetics such as Glucophage, Glucotrrol.. secretors and inhibitors. It works by preventing release of glucagon from teh liver and helps to increase beta cell production and works in the gut as an enzyme.
It is new and not for everyone.
It has to be injected just teh same way as insulin.
Clean area with swab or bactine. PINCH UP the skin and inject in the folded skin.
Continued use in the stomach aea will carete a condistiona dn excessive bruising. It is to be injected in abdomen, hip, thigh or flab in back of arm.

TO prevent the bruisis you have some choices. Always remember if yu inject in teh stomach on the left sidee do the right side the next day. Always rotate sites.
I am on insulin and I get it as well, BUt I found that the insulin does better iof injected right over the pancreas or teh stomach itself. I inject is a very narrow area.
So I use a few things that help. Vanilla. Yup good old real vanilla about twenty minutes after njecting takes the sore spot and bruise away.
Use bactine with lidocaine in it to prep injection site. always pinch up that helps alot to prevent wounds.

http://pi.lilly.com/us/byetta-pi.pdf
here is the physicians PDF link that exp[lains even more.

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