Carbidopa-Levodopa Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Sinemet, Carbidopa-Levodopa 25-100, Carbidopa-Levodopa 25-250
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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| Other | 6 |
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2 | |||
| Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) | 5 |
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2 | |||
| PARKINSONS | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Depression | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Muscle spasms | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Slow my MS progress | 1 | 0 |
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Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Carbidopa-Levodopa. See all 11 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Doctor's advice
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1 | 50% |
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Other
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1 | 50% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- ClownsPeach
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- ClownsPeach
- 300 mg daily
- since Apr 06, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips It is an expensive drug but it worked wonders for me! The reason I stopped taking it is because Dr put me on Requip to help control tremors and it is for RL... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 20, 2009.