A Byetta tracker is a record of two injections a day, timed against a meal, and what followed. Byetta is the only medicine here taken twice daily around meals, which makes it easier to lose count of than a weekly or once-daily one. Veya records what you enter and nothing else, and it is not a substitute for your prescriber's advice.

Why Byetta users track

Two injections a day, each one timed around a meal, is a different tracking problem from everything else on this site. It is the easiest routine here to lose count of, and the only one where timing relative to eating is part of the routine itself rather than incidental to it.

Two injections a day is easy to lose count of

A once-weekly injection is memorable because it is rare, and a once-daily one settles into a single daily habit. Twice a day sits awkwardly between the two: common enough to blend into the day, frequent enough that it is genuinely easy to lose track of whether the second one happened.

A log with two entries per day, rather than one, is the plainest way to answer that question without relying on memory.

The label ties timing to meals, so the record should too

The label says Byetta can be administered at any time within the 60-minute period before the morning and evening meal, or before two main meals of the day approximately 6 hours or more apart, and that it should not be administered after a meal. Timing relative to eating is part of the routine, not a detail around it.

Recording which meal an injection preceded, and roughly how long before, gives a prescriber something concrete to check the routine against.

Symptoms need to be tied to which of the two injections came first

With two injections a day, a symptom that shows up in the afternoon could plausibly follow either the morning dose or nothing at all. Without a record of both injection times, that question has no answer.

Noting the day, which injection it followed and how long after is what makes a symptom something a clinician can actually reason about.

Your prescription changes, and the record has to survive it

Treatment is reviewed and adjusted. With two injections a day tied to meals, a change to the routine touches fourteen events a week rather than one, so the before-and-after is worth capturing while it is happening.

A history that runs continuously across an adjustment is worth more than a detailed one that starts the week you noticed a problem.

How Veya tracks your Byetta

  • Injection logBoth daily injections, each with its own time and site, so the twice-daily pattern is visible as two entries rather than one blurred memory.
  • Symptom and side-effect notesWhat you noticed, the day it started, and which injection it followed. Entries sit on the same timeline as your injections, so the gap between the two is something you can see.
  • Weight and measurement entriesRecorded when you choose to record them, at whatever interval you and your prescriber find useful. Veya stores the numbers you enter and draws them over time.
  • Appointment preparationYour recent entries, gathered into something you can read out or hand over, so the appointment starts from a record rather than from trying to recall weeks of twice-daily injections at once.
  • Reminders you setA prompt on the schedule you choose, for each of the injections you have decided to record. Veya reminds you to make an entry; it has nothing to say about what your treatment should be.
  • CSV exportYour entries out of the app as a CSV file, in normal use and after cancelling. It is your record, and it should be readable somewhere that is not Veya.

What to record across a change in your prescription

Treatment is reviewed and adjusted over time. Veya will not tell you what to take, and this page carries no schedule of amounts: that is between you and your prescriber, and it is on the patient information supplied with your medicine. What a tracker can do is make the period around a change legible afterwards. These are the entries worth having.

  • The date something changed, recorded on the day rather than reconstructed later.
  • Whether both daily injections continued through the change, or whether one was missed.
  • Which meal each injection preceded, and roughly how long before it.
  • Any symptom that appeared, disappeared or changed character in the two weeks either side.
  • How long each symptom lasted, which is usually more informative than how bad it felt.
  • The injection site used for each dose, so a site-specific reaction can be told apart from a general one.
  • Anything else that changed at the same time: a new medicine, an illness, travel, a different meal pattern.
  • The questions you want to ask at the next appointment, written down when they occur to you.

Byetta basics

Active substance
Exenatide (immediate-release)
Medicine class
A GLP-1 analogue (ATC A10BJ01).
How it is given
Subcutaneous injection in the thigh, abdomen, or upper arm.
How often
Twice daily, at any time within the 60-minute period before the morning and evening meal, or before two main meals of the day approximately 6 hours or more apart. Should not be administered after a meal.
Presentations
Pre-filled pens
Marketing authorisation holder
AstraZeneca AB

Read from the EMA summary of product characteristics for Byetta, sections 1, 2, 4.2 and 5.1, on 11 September 2026. Product information is reissued when a variation is approved. Always follow the patient information leaflet supplied with your own medicine, and speak to your prescriber or pharmacist about anything concerning your treatment.

Does Veya tell me what dose to take?

No, and it will not. Veya records what you enter. Decisions about your treatment belong to you and the prescriber who looks after it, and the patient information supplied with your medicine is the place to look for how it should be taken.

How is Byetta different from Bydureon?

Same active substance, exenatide, at very different cadences. Byetta is immediate-release and taken twice daily around meals; Bydureon is prolonged-release and taken once weekly. Check which one your packaging names.

What happens to my entries if I stop paying?

CSV export works in normal use and after cancelling. Your record is exportable as a file you keep, rather than something that becomes unreadable when a subscription ends.

Can I log an injection that was later than usual before a meal?

Yes. You record the time you actually injected and which meal it preceded, rather than an assumed fixed slot.

Is Veya connected to AstraZeneca?

No. Veya is provider-neutral and independent. It does not sell, supply or prescribe medication, and it is not affiliated with any manufacturer. Byetta is named here to identify the medicine this page is about.

Can I log both injections on the same day easily?

Yes. Each injection is its own entry, so a morning dose and an evening dose sit as two separate, dated records rather than one combined guess.

Can I get my history out to show someone?

Yes. Entries export as a CSV file, which opens in a spreadsheet and prints. Several people find it easier to hand over a printed sheet than to pass a phone across a desk.