User Reviews for Levemir Flexpen subcutaneous

The insulin works well. Injecting it has become a major problem. Should be recalled. Scared to inject to areas of the body that I can't directly see

I'm just going to say it plain; this new pen stinks. My hand is not strong enough to push 42 units so I have to do two 21 units. Please go back to the old ones!!!

The flex pen stinks. Go back to flex touch. Flex touch was so easy to use. Flex pen is had to push down - needle breaks and u lose insulin, so u don't get the right dosage.

They should RECALL this product immediately! I’m 80 and it’s dangerous for me to use. Afraid I’m going to break off a needle!

I Hate the new pen design!! I've torn my skin so many times that I have bruises all over. I have to take 100 units twice a day, so the new design is so much harder to use. I can't continue to use this if I damage my skin every injection!!

New pens a lousy. Can self administer with them. Must get my doctor to find another product, After using for years. Are you gonna save 2 cents a pen, NUTS!

I can't believe with all the negative reviews on the new Flex Pen, that you are still producing it.. I have bent so many needles, due to the change in the pen. it is extremely hard to push the top to inject the insulin. As we get older our hands do not function as they use to, you have almost made it impossible to inject this pen myself.. I was glad my husband was home today to push it for me.. He was shocked as to how hard it was.. He said this is almost impossible for me to do.. Would you please improve this pen. I might have to change to something else, as so many reviews I have read, said the same thing..Read More Read Less

New pen is cheap junk

too hard to inject

The new pen is the new pen is terrible.

Very difficult to use and can't set for big enough dose without removing needle.

What used to be a simple one step injection of 60 units of Levemir is now a bloody ( literally) mess of wasted bent needles and leaking insulin to the point where I cannot be sure how many units actually made it into my body ! WHAT ARE THEY THINKING ABOUT !!!!!?????

Insulin detemir has no negative side effects, so Levemir is a good treatment. I have been happy on it for years until they made the pen cheaper. This is pretty much a disaster. I have RA, so holding the pen steady while trying to push the plunger down is a huge problem. Please go back to the original design!

This is borderline sadism . While the rest of the industry continuously makes our lives as diabetics easier, Novo decides to go in the opposite direction . What are they thinking ?? Did they even test this new pen before inflicting it on us ?! I'm going to see my physician and ask for an alternative .

We need a class action suit against this company for changing the pen design. It sucks! Can’t give my mom’s insulin without hurting her, fear of breaking off the needle, and wasting insulin. Her sugars have steadily climb over the last three months. I think Novo is more interested in making their weight loss drugs and pulling in record profits over the elderly Medicare patients who depend on this drug to stay alive.

New flexpens are a disaster. Much harder to use than flextouch pens, Hard to push plunger in. Don't touch the rotating cylinder or it stops injecting. I take 60 units, so it is extended all the way, making usage a difficult, trying experience. Will be asking doc for alternative. I've switched brands in the past and looks like I will be doing so again.

For 20 years I used Novo Nordisk’s insulin, Levemir (in FlexTouch Pen cartridge), as a slow-acting component of my management regimen for Diabetes-Type2. The medication was quite efficacious, but now I’ve experienced a serious mechanical issue that made me discontinue using Levemir. This year Novo Nordisk discontinued manufacture of FlexTouch (which was easy to us), replacing it with a new cartridge, FlexPen, which I found problematic and dangerous to use. Trouble is that the plunger that pushes Levemir up the FlexPen barrel is too stiff to operate with one hand. When I pushed real hard, the force bent the pen needle, popping it off my skin. That had 2 serious results: (1) the needle gouged my skin and caused bleeding, and (2) much of the liquid expressed flew into the air, so that I could not determine how much went into my body; that messed up my dosage. I’ve discussed the problem several times in phone calls to Novo Nordisk, and here I wish to make consumers aware of it. Read More Read Less

The Flexpen delivery method is horrible when compared to the ease of use of the previous Flextouch method. Requires a lot of hand strength in order to get it to work. A regular needle would be easier to inject with.

The new pens are much harder to use then the flex touch! Terrible. Obviously, Novo did not ask for user input on this design.

The pen too hard to use ,the plunger takes 2 hands. Out of 2pens I have bent 6 needles and is very painful to use. Very poor design, nothing like the flex touch!