Acarbose
Active Ingredients
- Acarbose
Manufacturers
- Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc
- Roxane Laboratories Inc
This report is for all products sharing this active ingredient. For more details, please use our Workbench for research on individual brands like Glucobay.
Explanation
The quarterly trend chart illustrates changing levels of adverse events over time. Results from both the FDA Adverse Event Database (FAERS) and adverse events extracted from social media by Druginformer are plotted side-by-side for easy comparison.
The proportion of people completing user reviews who complained about a side effect.
The proportion of social media adverse event complaints for each adverse event type.
The proportion of FAERS (FDA) adverse event complaints for each adverse event type.
Acarbose Side Effects
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Overall Alarm |
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* DrugInformer calculates alarm using a proprietary algorithm. Alarm should not be taken as an ofiicial signal from the FDA or other regulatory entity.
Tell us about your Experience with Acarbose
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Flatulence, Appetite disorder
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on January 22, 2015 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: Gas - not too unpleasant. As expected, gas gets worse after eating a high carb meal. Not that bad. Had to try something and Metformin gave me too many side effects. Reduced my...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Flatulence, Feeling abnormal, Vision blurred
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on March 14, 2014 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: too much gas to be around other people, consistent blurry vision, spaced out feeling I do have blurry vision often before or after I eat, but it normally will flare up for a s...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: None
Posted By babadarma in fdb.rxlist.com on February 14, 2013 @ 12:00 am
“The gas and possibly weight gain Acarbose causes are my only negatives. I am happy to trade gas for lack of constipation and help with hypoglycemia.”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Abdominal pain, Weight decreased
Posted By Anonymous in fdb.rxlist.com on February 20, 2012 @ 12:00 am
“I like many have bad gas and some abdominal pain. I find it lowers my sugar a lot. I take less insulin now. It has also caused some weight loss which I need the most.”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: None
Posted By ironstar2006 in fdb.rxlist.com on October 31, 2011 @ 12:00 am
“I don't have to worry that my sugar level will take a dive after I eat anymore. My glucose used to go from 186 after meal and drop to 54 within 1-1.5 hrs. later.”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Flatulence, Abdominal pain upper
Posted By Bill in fdb.rxlist.com on August 16, 2010 @ 12:00 am
“I have gas and stomach cramps.”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Flatulence, Fluid retention
Posted By Iron Bunny in fdb.rxlist.com on January 26, 2010 @ 12:00 am
“I could power a small city with the gas I produce. Gas-X doesn't make a dent in the gas production. I stopped taking it days before a significant event and the gas production went away. I have disc...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Dyspepsia
Posted By Anonymous in fdb.rxlist.com on January 18, 2010 @ 12:00 am
“Every time i take it I get acid indigestion!!!!!”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Flatulence, Hypersensitivity, Blood glucose, Glucose tolerance impaired, Fasting
Posted By rph333 in fdb.rxlist.com on November 26, 2009 @ 12:00 am
“?After having too many side effects with Metformin and severe reaction with Pioglitazone, I was prescribed Acarbose ( all generic names). Beside some gas problem, I tolerated this better then others....”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Constipation, Diarrhoea
Posted By itcspirit in fdb.rxlist.com on March 2, 2009 @ 12:00 am
“The medication has lowered my blood sugar levels but at the same time i am having bad side effects, mainly abdominal. Flagulance and gastritus. Constipation and diareah.”
Additional Drug Information
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* About FAERS: The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) is used by FDA for activities such as looking for new safety concerns that might be related to a marketed product, evaluating a manufacturer's compliance to reporting regulations and responding to outside requests for information. Reporting of adverse events is a voluntary process, and not every report is sent to FDA and entered into FAERS. The FAERS database may contain duplicate reports, the report quality is variable, and many factors may influence reporting (e.g., media attention, length of time a drug is marketed, market share). For these reasons, FAERS case reports cannot be used to calculate incidence or estimates of risk for a particular product or compare risks between products.
User Voices
The following are comments from users that experienced side effects while taking Acarbose
Flatulence
“Side Effects: Gas - not too unpleasant. As expected, gas gets worse after eating a high carb meal.
Not that bad. Had to try something and Metformin gave me too many side effects. Reduced my...”
Source: viewrating.asp
View full report on Acarbose related flatulence
Did the author experience flatulence while taking precose?
What is this?Appetite Disorder
“Side Effects: Gas - not too unpleasant. As expected, gas gets worse after eating a high carb meal.
Not that bad. Had to try something and Metformin gave me too many side effects. Reduced my...”
Source: viewrating.asp
View full report on Acarbose related appetite disorder
Did the author experience appetite disorder while taking precose?
What is this?Flatulence
“Side Effects: too much gas to be around other people, consistent blurry vision, spaced out feeling
I do have blurry vision often before or after I eat, but it normally will flare up for a s...”
Source: viewrating.asp
View full report on Acarbose related flatulence
Did the author experience flatulence while taking precose?
What is this?