Drug Interactions With Leuprolide Acetate Depot

By Susan Lakey, PharmD, MPH |

Diabetes medications, such as metformin, insulin, sulfonylureas, and alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, are the only products expected to cause drug interactions with leuprolide acetate depot. If you have diabetes, your healthcare provider may adjust the doses of your diabetes medications and have you check your blood sugar more often during treatment with leuprolide acetate depot.

An Overview of Leuprolide Acetate Depot Interactions

Leuprolide acetate depot (Lupron Depot^®) is a prescription hormone medication that is given as an injection. Leuprolide acetate depot is not expected to interact with most medications. However, it may react with drugs used to treat diabetes, including:

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^®).

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