Eligard Drug Interactions

Diabetes medications, such as insulin, glitazones, metformin, and sulfonylureas, are the only drugs expected to interact with Eligard. Therefore, if you have diabetes and are receiving Eligard injections, your healthcare provider may adjust the doses of your diabetes medications and have you check your blood sugar more often.

• Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, such as:
   
  • Acarbose (Precose^®)
  • Miglitol (Glyset^®)

• Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, such as:
   
  • Alogliptin (Nesina^®), alogliptin and metformin (Kazano^®), and alogliptin and pioglitazone (Oseni^®)
  • Linagliptin (Tradjenta™)
  • Linagliptin and metformin (Jentadueto™) 
  • Saxagliptin (Onglyza™)
  • Sitagliptin (Januvia^®)
  • Sitagliptin and metformin (Janumet^®)
  • Sitagliptin and metformin XR (Janumet^® XR)

• Glitazones and glitazone combination medications, such as:
   
  • Pioglitazone hydrochloride (Actos^®)
  • Pioglitazone and glimepiride (Duetact^®)
  • Pioglitazone and metformin (Actoplus Met^®)
  • Pioglitazone and metformin XR (Actoplus Met^® XR)
  • Rosiglitazone (Avandia^®)
  • Rosiglitazone and glimepiride (Avandaryl^®)
  • Rosiglitazone and metformin (Avandamet^®)

• Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists, such as:
   
  • Exenatide (Byetta^®)
  • Liraglutide (Victoza^®)

• Insulin of any type
• Meglitinides, such as:
   
  • Nateglinide (Starlix^®)
  • Repaglinide (Prandin^®)

• Metformin (Glucophage^®, Glucophage XR^®, Fortamet^®, Glumetza^®, Riomet^®)
• Sulfonylureas or sulfonylurea combination medications, such as:
   
  • Chlorpropamide (Diabinese^®)
  • Glimepiride (Amaryl^®)
  • Glimepiride and pioglitazone (Duetact^®)
  • Glimepiride and rosiglitazone (Avandaryl^®)
  • Glipizide (Glucotrol^®, Glucotrol XL^®)
  • Glipizide and metformin (Metaglip^®)
  • Glyburide (DiaBeta^®, Micronase^®, Glynase^®)
  • Glyburide and metformin (Glucovance^®)
  • Tolazamide (Tolinase^®)
  • Tolbutamide (Orinase^®).