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Carbidopa-Levodopa Treatment Report

Brand Names: Carbidopa-Levodopa 25-100, Sinemet

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.

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Reasons taken

7 patients in the community are taking or have taken Carbidopa-Levodopa.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) 7 100%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Carbidopa-Levodopa.

  1 mg daily 25 mg-100 mg daily 50 mg-200 mg daily 3 x 25 mg-100 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Carbidopa-Levodopa or how long patients were taking Carbidopa-Levodopa before stopping.

Currently Taking Carbidopa-Levodopa

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
0
1
5

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 2 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

There is currently no efficacy data for Carbidopa-Levodopa.

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 50% 1
None 50% 1

Top reported side-effects include: Dyskinesia, Nausea, Drowsiness

Summary results are based on 2 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 2)

  • quiltedrooster
    Sex: F
    Pain: All
    Fatigue: Most
    Sleep: Some
    Stiffness: All
    function: Little
    external_stress: Some
    Stickman: most
    Description:F47y
    FM:12y Dx
  • quiltedrooster
  • by quiltedrooster
    May 04, 2009
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)

  • gbabies6
    Sex: F
    Pain: Some
    Fatigue: Some
    Sleep: All
    Stiffness: All
    function: Most
    external_stress: Little
    Stickman: most
    Description:F46y
  • by gbabies6
    Jan 14, 2009
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsMild
  • Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)

See all evaluation results for Carbidopa-Levodopa

Report created on November 07, 2009.