Carbidopa-Levodopa Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Sinemet, Carbidopa-Levodopa 25-100, Sinemet Plus (Show all)
What is Carbidopa-Levodopa?
Levodopa is a dopamine precursor used to treat the movement disorder symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Carbidopa is often included with levodopa-containing drugs in order to boost its efficacy by slowing down the metabolism of dopamine.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Treat my MSA | 10 |
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3 | |||
| Other | 5 |
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3 | ||
| Intention tremors - shaking when performing fine movements | 3 |
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1 | ||||
| Support another treatment | 1 | 0 | |||||
| To treat PD | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Treat Parkinonism Issues | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Carbidopa-Levodopa. See all 15 dosages ►
| 25mg-100mg as needed | 2 x 25 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 25 mg-100 mg daily | 2 x 10 mg-100 mg daily | 3 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 4 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 500.5 mg daily | 6 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 8 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 9 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 1000 mg daily | 4 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 5 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 18 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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2 | 100% |
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Doctor's advice
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1 | 50% |
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Side effects too severe
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1 | 50% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 7 patient evaluations
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- RebeccaJean
- Sex: F
- Mood: Very bad
- Cognition: Severe
- Autonomic: Severe
- Head: severe
- Arms: severe
- Legs: severe
- Tremors: moderate
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- RebeccaJean
- since Mar 13, 2007
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Efficacy
None
for Treat my MSA
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Side Effects
Moderate
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- TAG1
- Sex: F
- Mood: Very bad
- Cognition: Moderate
- Autonomic: Severe
- Head: moderate
- Arms: severe
- Legs: severe
- Tremors: moderate
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- TAG1
- 18 x 25 mg-250 mg daily
- since Feb 16, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Intention tremors - shaking when performing fine movements
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Side Effects
Mild
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- btrflynana2
- Sex: F
- Mood: Very bad
- Cognition: Moderate
- Autonomic: Moderate
- Head: none
- Arms: none
- Legs: moderate
- Tremors: none
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- btrflynana2
- 9 x 25 mg-100 mg daily
- since Nov 23, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat my MSA
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Side Effects
None
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See all 7 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.