Donepezil Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Aricept
What is Donepezil?
Donezpil hydrochloride is an aceytlcholineserase inhibitor used in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. It is considered a potentially useful treatment for other neurological conditions including ALS.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Brain fog | 25 |
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| Memory problems | 20 |
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| Other | 16 |
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| Memory lapses (brain blinks) | 13 |
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5 | |
| Cognition | 9 |
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5 | |
| Memory Loss | 5 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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11 | 42% |
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Side effects too severe
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8 | 31% |
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Expense
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5 | 19% |
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Doctor's advice
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3 | 12% |
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Personal research
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1 | 4% |
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Other
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1 | 4% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 4% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 18 patient evaluations
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- bandido1
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: moderate
- Chest: mild
- Legs: mild
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- bandido1
- 10 mg daily
- since May 05, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Memory problems
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- planton
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: mild
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- planton
- 5 mg daily
- since Nov 17, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Memory problems
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Titrated up from 5 mg/day for 4 weeks; my memory issues haven't been quite as worrisome since starting, but taking it mid-afternoon makes me drowsy... See full evaluation
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- nysteelerfan
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- nysteelerfan
- 10 mg daily
- since May 10, 2009
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for General health
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips only taken for 1 month, too earlier to offer thought See full evaluation
See all 18 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.