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What is Pimozide?

Pimozide is an antipsychotic drug used to suppress severe motor and phonic tics in patients with Tourette's disorder who have failed to respond satisfactorily to standard treatment.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
ASSIST IN GAIT SPEED - 4AP 1 1 Efficacy_slight
Fear 1 1 Efficacy_cant_tell

See 1 patient currently taking Pimozide

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 1
None
 1

Reported Dosages

  2 other daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Pimozide (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 1   Other: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped taking Pimozide

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Stopped Taking Pimozide

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

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Pimozide

Always
 2 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Pimozide

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 2 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Pimozide

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 1 100%
< $25
 0 0%

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Report created on May 26, 2012.