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Home > Community Treatment Reports > Sinemet Plus (carbidopa-levodopa) Treatment Report
What is Sinemet Plus?

Sinemet Plus is an international brand name for the combination of levodopa and carbidopa. The combination is used to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease or Parkinson-like symptoms.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Balance problems 1 0

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Dosages

  3 x 25 mg-100 mg daily 8 x 25 mg-100 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Sinemet Plus

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

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

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

Cost

Paid out of pocket

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

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Report created on November 24, 2009.