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What is Carbidopa?

Carbidopa is a dopamine agonist. It is generally given with levodopa in the treatment of parkinsonism to enable a lower dosage of levodopa to be used and a more rapid response to be obtained and to decrease side effects.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Nausea 14 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_cant_tell
Parkinson's Disease 12 2 Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 1 0
Stiffness/Spasticity 1 0
Treat side effects of another treatment 1 1 Efficacy_moderate

See all 27 patients currently taking Carbidopa

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 1
Mild
 0
None
 4

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Carbidopa

Tremor decreased 1

Reported Dosages

  25 mg all the time (24/7) 20 mg daily 25 mg daily 50 mg daily 75 mg daily 87.5 mg daily 100 mg daily 150 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 2 Number of Patients: 2 8 Number of Patients: 8 1 Number of Patients: 1 8 Number of Patients: 8 2 Number of Patients: 2  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Carbidopa (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 4   Doctor's advice: 44%
Side effects too severe 2   Side effects too severe: 22%
Other 2   Other: 22%
Did not seem to work 1   Did not seem to work: 11%
Expense 1   Expense: 11%
Course of treatment ended 1   Course of treatment ended: 11%

See all 9 patients who’ve stopped taking Carbidopa

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

Currently Taking Carbidopa

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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

Stopped Taking Carbidopa

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

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

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Carbidopa

Always
 5 100%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Carbidopa

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 1 20%
Not at all
 4 80%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Carbidopa

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 20%
$25-49
 3 60%
< $25
 1 20%

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Report created on May 27, 2012.