PatientsLikeMe : Hydroxychloroquine Treatment Report

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Taking Hydroxychloroquine
11 Patients currently take Hydroxychloroquine
3 Patients stopped taking Hydroxychloroquine
lilybet Depression: 3 Emotional: 2 Compulsion: 0 Anxiety: 1 Mania: 0 Physical: 2 External Stress: Severe 49 F Function: Moderate Distress: Low See profile lilybet Plaquenil, 300mg daily since Jan 24, 2006
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What is Hydroxychloroquine? Hydroxychloroquine is used to prevent and treat acute attacks of malaria. It is also used to treat discoid or systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis in patients whose symptoms have not improved with other treatments. Read more...

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Reasons Taken

14 patients in the community are taking or have taken Hydroxychloroquine.

Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Other	7	50%
Arthritis	2	14%
Joint pain, stiffness	1	7%
lymes disease	1	7%
Support another treatment	1	7%
Sjogrens syndrome	1	7%
Slow my MS progress	1	7%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Hydroxychloroquine.

200 mg day	300 mg day	400 mg day
1	2	6

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Hydroxychloroquine or how long patients were taking Hydroxychloroquine before stopping.

Currently taking Hydroxychloroquine

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
0	1	0	0	2	4

Stopped taking Hydroxychloroquine

0-1 month	1-3 months	3-6 months	6 months-1year	1-2 years	2 years or more
0	1	1	1	0	0

Why Patients Stopped Taking Hydroxychloroquine (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason	# Patients	Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice	1	33%
Side effects too severe	1	33%
Course of treatment ended	1	33%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 2 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Moderate	100%	1

Arthritis

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe	0%	0
Moderate	0%	0
Mild	50%	1
None	50%	1

Top reported side-effects include: darkening of hyperpigmentated skin spots

Summary results are based on 2 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 2)

lilybet

Depression: 3

Emotional: 2

Compulsion: 0

Anxiety: 1

Mania: 0

Physical: 2

External Stress: Severe

49 F

Function: Moderate

Distress: Low

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by lilybet
Sep 09, 2008