What is Trihexyphenidyl?
Trihexyphenidyl is anti-Parkinson's and anticholinergic agent used as adjunctive treatment of Parkinson's disease and for the treatment of drug-induced extrapyramidal symptoms.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Treat Parkinson's | 42 |
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10 |
| Hand tremor | 15 |
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4 | |
| Other | 8 |
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1 | ||||
| tremor | 5 | 0 | |||||
| General health | 3 |
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1 | ||||
| disease-related symptoms | 3 |
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1 |
See all 72 patients currently taking Trihexyphenidyl
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Trihexyphenidyl. See all 20 dosages ►
| 2 mg as needed | 2mg as needed | daily | 0.5 mg daily | 1 mg daily | 2 mg/5 mL daily | 1.5 mg daily | 2 mg/5 mL daily | 2 mg daily | 3 mg daily | 2 x 2 mg/5 mL daily | 4 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 3 x 2 mg/5 mL daily | 6 mg daily | 8 mg daily | 10 mg daily | 12 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 24 mg daily | ||
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3
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16
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2
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1
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11
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3
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3
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15
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2
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3
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1
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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11 | 48% |
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Doctor's advice
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9 | 39% |
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Did not seem to work
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6 | 26% |
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Other
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4 | 17% |
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Expense
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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 19 patient evaluations
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- sandyjc
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: mild
- See profile
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- sandyjc
- 4 mg daily
- since Oct 28, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat Parkinson's
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Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
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- rockmax
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: none
- Chest: none
- Legs: none
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- rockmax
- 4 mg daily
- since Mar 08, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
Moderate
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- Kimellis
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: mild
- See profile
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- Kimellis
- 2 x 2 mg/5 mL daily
- since Jan 13, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat Parkinson's
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Discontinued under recommendation of neurologist, due to possible effects on heart valves I think. See full evaluation
See all 19 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.