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

Parcopa™ is a brand name for the combination of levodopa and carbidopa in an orally disintegrating tablet formualtion which are 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
Treat Parkinson's 16 5
Other 2 1
Slowness 2 1
Parkinsonism 1 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
1 17%
Mild
0 0%
None
5 83%

Most commonly reported side effects

Sleep deprivation
1 17%
Sleepiness
1 17%
  • Mild
  • Moderate
  • Severe

Dosages

Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Parcopa. See all 16 dosages ►

  100mg as needed 25mg-250mg as needed 3 25mg-100mg as needed daily 25 mg daily 75 mg daily 25 mg-100 mg daily 138 mg daily 275 mg daily 330 mg daily 4 x 25 mg-100 mg daily 5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily 6 x 10 mg-100 mg daily 8 x 25 mg-100 mg daily 10 x 25 mg-100 mg daily 4 x 25 mg-250 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 6 Number of Patients: 6 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Parcopa (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice
2 40% Doctor's advice: 40%
Did not seem to work
1 20% Did not seem to work: 20%
Side effects too severe
1 20% Side effects too severe: 20%
Other
1 20% Other: 20%
Course of treatment ended
1 20% Course of treatment ended: 20%

See all 5 patients who’ve stopped taking Parcopa

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Parcopa

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

Stopped Taking Parcopa

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

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
4 67%
Usually
1 17%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
1 17%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
1 17%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
5 83%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
1 17%
$25-49
1 17%
< $25
3 50%

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Report created on November 21, 2009.