The popular diabetes drug Kombiglyze has been linked with a growing number of serious and even life-threatening Kombiglyze side effects, including heart failure and thyroid cancer.

Kombiglyze (saxagliptin and metformin hydrochloride) is a diabetes drug manufactured jointly by Bristol-Myers Squibb and AztraZeneca Pharmaceuticals.

It belongs to a relatively new class of diabetes drugs known collectively as incretin mimetics. Incretin mimetics like Kombiglyze are used to control type 2 diabetes. (Kombiglyze has not been approved to treat patients with type 1 diabetes.)

In order to control a patient’s type 2 diabetes, Kombiglyze stimulates insulin production with saxagliptin and decreases sugar production with metformin. These two aspects of the drug work together to regulate high blood sugar levels.

Incretin mimetics may be fairly new on the drug market, but reports of serious Kombiglyze side effects are already coming in.

Due to the number of Kombiglyze complications that have been reported, experts are investigating to try to determine the risks associated with these drugs.

Kombiglyze Side Effects

Kombiglyze and other similar drugs have been linked with the following serious side effects:

• Heart failure
• Thyroid Cancer
• Pancreatitis
• Acute Pancreatitis
• Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis
• Necrotizing Pancreatitis
• Kidney Complications
• Renal Failure

Heart failure is one of the most serious possible Kombiglyze side effects, and is a potentially life-threatening medical condition in which the heart becomes so weak that it cannot adequately pump blood throughout the body. Heart failure needs to be treated immediately.

Even if a patient is lucky enough to survive heart failure, their lives will never be the same. After experiencing heart failure, a patient must necessarily make significant changes to their daily routines in order to stay healthy.

These changes often include things like improving their diet, decreasing their sodium intake, exercising, losing weight, and/or managing their stress levels more effectively. Patients who have experienced heart failure once must always be alert and do everything they can to reduce their risk of further complications.

Kombiglyze Side Effects Lawsuits

A number of type 2 diabetes patients who have suffered from serious Kombiglyze side effects have responded by filing lawsuits. In these lawsuits, plaintiffs often allege that the drug’s manufacturers, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca, failed to adequately warn both the public and the medical community of the risk of the potential Kombiglyze side effects.

By failing to warn patients and doctors of these risks, the lawsuits claim, manufacturers placed consumers at an even greater risk. On top of the increased risk of heart failure, Kombiglyze has also been connected to increased pancreatic and thyroid cancer risks.

Injured patients have also filed Kombiglyze pancreatic cancer and Kombiglyze thyroid cancer lawsuits.

Lawsuits over severe medical conditions cannot heal a patient or take their pain away, or even bring a loved one back, but they can help with alleviating medical expenses and peace of mind.

If you or someone you know has suffered from side effects of diabetes medications like Kombiglyze, such as heart failure or cancer, you may be able to file a Kombiglyze lawsuit.