What is Selegiline?
Selegiline is a Monoamine Oxidase (MAO) inhibitor. It is an antidepressant and anti-Parkinson's agent. When used in combination with levodopa containing drugs such as Sinemet it can improve their efficacy by slowing the breakdown of levodopa. The transdermal product is used to treat depression.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Treat Parkinson's | 144 |
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20 |
| Other | 9 |
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3 | ||
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 7 |
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1 | ||||
| disease-related symptoms | 3 | 0 | |||||
| Depression | 3 |
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3 | |||
| Support another treatment | 2 |
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1 |
See all 156 patients currently taking Selegiline
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Selegiline. See all 20 dosages ►
| 6 mg/24 hr all the time (24/7) | daily | 0.1 mg daily | 0.5 mg daily | 1.25 mg daily | 1.5 daily | 1.5 mg daily | 2.25 mg daily | 2.5 mg daily | 3 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 5 mg one time | 6 mg/24 hr daily | 9 mg/24 hr daily | 10 mg daily | 12 mg/24 hr daily | 15 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 125 mg daily | ||
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7
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1
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2
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10
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1
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1
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2
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18
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1
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32
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1
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1
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Doctor's advice
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20 | 28% |
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Did not seem to work
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20 | 28% |
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Other
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19 | 26% |
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Side effects too severe
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14 | 19% |
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Personal research
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6 | 8% |
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Expense
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2 | 3% |
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Not indicated
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2 | 3% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 1% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 31 patient evaluations
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- dixie pixie
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: mild
- See profile
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- dixie pixie
- 1.5 mg daily
- since Apr 07, 2008
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Treat Parkinson's
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- Dan McRight
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: mild
- Chest: none
- Legs: none
- See profile
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- Dan McRight
- since Aug 20, 2008
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Efficacy
Slight
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Discontinued 8/4/08 See full evaluation
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- EdSikov
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: mild
- Chest: none
- Legs: mild
- See profile
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- EdSikov
- 10 mg daily
- since Aug 21, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Treat Parkinson's
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips It had no effect before I went on ritalin in its various forms. Now it works. See full evaluation
See all 31 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.