Tell your doctor if you suffer from any of the following symptoms: any kind of heart disease, including high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, a previous heart attack, or an irregular heartbeat; respiratory disease, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); liver disease; kidney disease; an endocrine (hormonal) disease; a stomach or intestinal ulcer; wide-angle glaucoma; or depression or any other psychiatric disorder. You may need a dosage adjustment or special monitoring during treatment if you have any of the conditions listed above.

Do not take levodopa if you have taken a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), such as isocarboxazid (Marplan®), tranylcypromine (Parnate®), or phenelzine (Nardil®) withinin the past 2 weeks.

Moreover, you are advised not to take levodopa without first talking to your doctor if you have narrow-angle glaucoma (angle closure glaucoma), or malignant melanoma (a type of skin cancer).

It is not known whether levodopa will be harmful to an unborn baby. Do not take levodopa without first talking to your doctor if you are pregnant or could become pregnant during treatment.

Additionally, it has not been determined whether levodopa will be harmful to a nursing infant. Please do not take levodopa without first talking to your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.

 

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