Dextromethorphan-Quinidine Treatment Report
What is Dextromethorphan-Quinidine?
A dextromethorphan-quinidine combination was studied for its effect on inappropriate laughing and crying episodes experienced by some patients with brain injury or brain degeneration due to certain diseases. The incongruous laughing and crying episodes are due to pseudobulbar affect.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Other | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| emotions, to stop uncontrollable laughing and crying | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Support another treatment | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Emotional lability | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 100% |
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Side effects too severe
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1 | 100% |
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See all 1 patient who’ve stopped taking Dextromethorphan-Quinidine
Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
Patient Evaluations
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- alowry10
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: none
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- alowry10
- 1 tps. daily
- since Jun 05, 2009
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Efficacy
Slight
for Support another treatment
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- plwindsurf
- Mouth/throat: moderate
- Arms: moderate
- Chest: mild
- Legs: moderate
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- plwindsurf
- since Jul 15, 2009
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Efficacy
None
for emotions, to stop uncontrollable laughing and crying
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips It did not seem to work for me, and also it made me so sleepy that I was sometimes sleeping for 15 hours a day. See full evaluation
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- ltbeauti
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: none
- Chest: none
- Legs: none
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- ltbeauti
- 30 mg daily
- since Feb 09, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips My doctor wants me to have an EKG and bloodwork done every few months because Quinidine is a heart drug that has been around for years, and he wants to keep ... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 21, 2009.